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    Ruth: From Alien­ation to Monarchy
    Yael Ziegler
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    Joshua: The Chal­lenge of the Promised Land
    Michael Hattin
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    The Holo­caust and the West Ger­man His­to­ri­ans: His­tor­i­cal Inter­pre­ta­tion and Auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal Memory
    Nicolas Berg, Joel Golb trans. and ed.
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    Kab­bal­ah: A Neu­rocog­ni­tive Approach to Mys­ti­cal Experiences
    Shahar Arzy and Moshe Idel
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    The Reli­gious Genius in Rab­bi Kook’s Thought: Nation­al Saint?
    Dov Schwartz; Edward Levin, trans.
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    Mai­monides and the Book That Changed Judaism: Secrets of ​“The Guide for the Perplexed”
    Micah Goodman; Yedidya Sinclair, trans.
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    Israeli Fem­i­nist Schol­ar­ship: Gen­der, Zion­ism, and Difference
    Esther Fuchs
    Cover of Leadership and Conflict: Tensions in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History and Culture
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    Lead­er­ship and Con­flict: Ten­sions in Medieval and Ear­ly Mod­ern Jew­ish His­to­ry and Culture
    Marc Saperstein
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    The Mur­der of William of Nor­wich: The Ori­gins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe
    E.M. Rose
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    Transna­tion­al Tra­di­tions: New Per­spec­tives on Amer­i­can Jew­ish History
    Ava F. Kahn and Adam D. Mendelsohn, ed.
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    The Myth of the Cul­tur­al Jew: Cul­ture and Law in Jew­ish Tradition
    Rober­ta Rosen­thal Kwall
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    Amer­i­can Judaism: A History
    Jonathan D. Sarna
    Cover of A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987
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    A Ques­tion of Tra­di­tion: Women Poets in Yid­dish, 1586 – 1987
    Kathryn Hellerstein
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    Becom­ing Ottomans: Sephar­di Jews and Impe­r­i­al Cit­i­zen­ship in the Mod­ern Era
    Julia Phillips Cohen
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    Jew­ish Rights, Nation­al Rites: Nation­al­ism and Auton­o­my in Late Impe­r­i­al and Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Russia
    Simon Rabinovitch
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    The Busi­ness of Iden­ti­ty: Jews, Mus­lims and Eco­nom­ic Life in Medieval Egypt
    Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman
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