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Come and Hear: What I Saw in My Seven-and-a-Half-Year Journey through the Talmud
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Filled with Fire and Light: Portraits and Legends from the Bible, Talmud, and Hasidic World
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Coming to Terms with America: Essays on Jewish History, Religion, and Culture
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Survivors: Children’s Lives After the Holocaust
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Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe
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Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine
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The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century
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Yeshiva Days: Learning on the Lower East Side
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Seekers of the Face: Secrets of the Idra Rabba (The Great Assembly) of the Zohar
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Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation
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Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation
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International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War
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Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel
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The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility
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Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate
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Inside the Torah: Narrative, Interpretation, and Mystical Meanings
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Jews in Southern Tuscany during the Holocaust: Ambiguous Refuge
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Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union
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Ani Maamin: Biblical Criticism, Historical Truth and the Thirteen Principles of Faith
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The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue