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identity

Cover of Salinger's Soul: His Personal & Religious Odyssey
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Salinger’s Soul: His Per­son­al & Reli­gious Odyssey
Stephen B. Shepard
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The Old Jew­ish Men’s Guide to Eat­ing, Sleep­ing, and Futz­ing Around
Noah Rin­sky
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Thread­bare
Jane Loeb Rubin
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The Only Jew in The Room: Search­ing for Under­stand­ing in An Arab Islam­ic College
Avi Shalev
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Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jew­ish Life and Her­itage in Mod­ern Cairo
Yoram Meital
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The Braille Ency­clo­pe­dia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight
Nao­mi Cohn
Cover of Becoming Janet: Finding Myself in the Holocaust
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Becom­ing Janet: Find­ing Myself in the Holocaust
Janet Singer Applefield
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Sabor Judío: The Jew­ish Mex­i­can Cookbook
Ilan Sta­vans
Mar­garet E. Boyle
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Tra­di­tion and Tran­si­tion: Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ties and the Hyper-Empow­ered Individual
Andrés Spokoiny
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For Such a Time as This: On Being Jew­ish Today
Elliot Cos­grove
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Jew­ish Life in Patagonia

Jes­si­ca Ruetter
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High Hol­i­day Tast­ing Menu

JBC Staff
September 23, 2024
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Matri­lin­eal Dis­sent: Women Writ­ers and Jew­ish Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary History
Annie Atura Bushnell, Lori Harrison-Kahan, and Ashley Walters, eds.
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Coun­ter­ing Anti­semitism & Hate: A How-To Guide for Youth (8−18), Fam­i­ly & Educators
Lynne Azarchi
Har­lene Lichter Galen
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Opu­lent Nosh: A Cook­book for Auda­cious Appetites
Ken Albala
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Excerpt — Matzah and Flour: Recipes from the His­to­ry of the Sephardic Jews

Hélène Jawhara Piñer
September 16, 2024
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