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Cover of Foreigners and Their Food: Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law

Foreigners and Their Food: Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law

David M. Freidenreich

Cover of Defending the Human Spirit: Jewish law's Vision For a Moral Society

Defending the Human Spirit: Jewish law’s Vision For a Moral Society

Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein

Cover of Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa

Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa

David Ellenson and Daniel Gordis

Cover of Promiscuous: Portnoy’s Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness

Promiscuous: Portnoy’s Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness

Bernard Avishai

Cover of The Book of Job

The Book of Job

Harold S. Kushner

Cover of Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People

Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People

Cover of The JPS Commentary on the Haggadah: Historical Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

The JPS Commentary on the Haggadah: Historical Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Joseph Tabory; David Stern, fwd.

Cover of Wives Without Husbands: Marriage, Desertion, and Welfare in New York 1900-1935

Wives Without Husbands: Marriage, Desertion, and Welfare in New York 1900 – 1935

Cover of The Mystery of the Kaddish: Its Profound Influence on Judaism

The Mystery of the Kaddish: Its Profound Influence on Judaism

Cover of The Mystical Origins of Hasidism

The Mystical Origins of Hasidism

Rachel Elior; Shalom Carmy, trans.

Cover of Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society

Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society

Cover of Wrestling Jacob: Deception, Identity and Freudian Slips in Genesis

Wrestling Jacob: Deception, Identity and Freudian Slips in Genesis

Shmuel Klitsner

Cover of The Family Book of Midrash: Fifty-Two Jewish Stories From the Sages

The Family Book of Midrash: Fifty-Two Jewish Stories From the Sages

Barbara Diamond Goldin

Cover of Jewish Thought: An Introduction

Jewish Thought: An Introduction

Cover of Rabbinic and Lay Communal Authority

Rabbinic and Lay Communal Authority

Suzanne Last Stone

Cover of Galileo's Gout: Science in an Age of Endarkenment

Galileo’s Gout: Science in an Age of Endarkenment

Gerald Weissmann