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Cover of Mediterranean Passages: Readings from Dido to Derrida
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Mediter­ranean Pas­sages: Read­ings from Dido to Derrida
Miriam Cooke, Erdag Goknar, Grant Parker, eds.
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Anglo-Jew­ish Women Writ­ing the Holo­caust: Dis­placed Witnesses
Phyllis Lassner
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One Hun­dred Great Jew­ish Books: Three Mil­len­nia of Jew­ish Conversation
Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman
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Lucky Bruce: A Lit­er­ary Memoir
Bruce Jay Friedman
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Amer­i­can Tal­mud: The Cul­tur­al Work of Jew­ish Amer­i­can Fiction
Ezra Cappell
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Exiles on Main Street: Jew­ish Amer­i­can Writ­ers and Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary Culture
Julian Levinson
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Read­ing and Think­ing about Books

On Mon­day, Tom Fields-Mey­er took a look at autism and God. He will be blog­ging all week for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing. Every…
Tom Fields-Mey­er
November 9, 2011
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Trau­mat­ic Vers­es: On Poet­ry in Ger­man from the Con­cen­tra­tion Camps, 1933 – 1945
Andres Nader
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Sephardic Amer­i­can Voic­es: Two Hun­dred Years of a Lit­er­ary Legacy
Diane Matza, ed.
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The Image of the Jews in Greek Lit­er­a­ture: The Hel­lenis­tic Period
Bezalel Bar-Kochva
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A Thou­sand Dark­ness­es: Lies and Truth in Holo­caust Fiction
Ruth Franklin
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Lit­er­ary Pass­ports: The Mak­ing of Mod­ernist Hebrew Fic­tion in Europe
Shachar M. Pinsker
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Mod­ern Jew­ish Lit­er­a­tures: Inter­sec­tions and Boundaries
Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer, and L. Scott Lerner, eds.
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Yid­dish Lit­er­a­ture in Amer­i­ca: 1870 – 2000
Emanuel S. Goldsmith; Barnett Zumoff, trans.
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In the Demon’s Bed­room: Yid­dish Lit­er­a­ture and the Ear­ly Modern
Jere­my Dauber
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Amer­i­can Hebrew Lit­er­a­ture: Writ­ing Jew­ish Nation­al Iden­ti­ty in the Unit­ed States
Michael Weingrad; Alan Mintz, fwd.
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