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    Pow­er and Emo­tion in Ancient Judaism: Com­mu­ni­ty and Iden­ti­ty in Formation
    Ari Mermelstein
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    Jew­ish Cul­tur­al Studies
    Simon J. Bronner
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    Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Chal­lenge to Israel
    Katell Berthelot
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    Inter­na­tion­al Jew­ish Human­i­tar­i­an­ism in the Age of the Great War
    Jaclyn Granick
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    When a Home Is Not a Home

    Ona Rus­sell
    January 8, 2021
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    Han­nah Arendt and Lucy Daw­id­ow­icz: Zion­ism & Israel in the Minds of Two Great Intellectuals

    Thursday, February 25, 2021
    12:30–2pm

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    In part­ner­ship with Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and Natan Fund

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    Hou­di­ni: The Elu­sive American
    Adam Beg­ley
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    The Polio Pio­neer: Dr. Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine
    Linda Elovitz Marshall, Lisa Anchin (illus.)
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    Don’t Touch the Bones
    Julia Kolchin­sky Dasbach 
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    The Beau­ty and the Ter­ror: An Alter­na­tive His­to­ry of the Ital­ian Renaissance
    Cather­ine Fletcher
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    The Last Mil­lion: Europe’s Dis­placed Per­sons from World War to Cold War
    David Nasaw
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    From Left to Right…and Every­thing in Between: The Impor­tance of Jew­ish Polit­i­cal Diversity

    Wednesday, January 6, 2021
    12:30–1:30pm

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    In part­ner­ship with Jew­ish Book Coun­cil, Natan Fund, and Shalom Hart­man Insti­tute of North America

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    ‘The Ran­dom Hand of Mercy’

    Har­ri­et Shenkman
    November 30, 2020
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    The Jew­ish Intel­lec­tu­al Tra­di­tion: A His­to­ry of Learn­ing and Achievement
    Alan Kadish
    Michael A. Shmidman
    Sim­cha Fishbane
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    Excerpt — The Jew­ish Intel­lec­tu­al Tra­di­tion: A His­to­ry of Learn­ing and Achievement 

    Alan Kadish, Michael A. Shmidman, Sim­cha Fishbane
    November 23, 2020
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    Jew­ish Music in Amer­i­ca — Dias­poric Diversity

    Tina Frühauf
    November 19, 2020
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