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Scholarship

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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
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The Busi­ness of Iden­ti­ty: Jews, Mus­lims and Eco­nom­ic Life in Medieval Egypt
Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman
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Prac­tic­ing Piety in Medieval Ashke­naz: Men, Women, and Every­day Reli­gious Observance
Elisheva Baumgarten
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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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