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    The Land of Truth: Tal­mud Tales, Time­less Teachings
    Jef­frey L. Rubenstein
    Nonfiction
    The Mus­sar Torah Com­men­tary: A Spir­i­tu­al Path to Liv­ing a Mean­ing­ful and Eth­i­cal Life
    Bar­ry H. Block
    Nonfiction
    A Hun­dred Acres of Amer­i­ca: The Geog­ra­phy of Jew­ish Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary History
    Michael Hober­man
    Nonfiction
    Masa­da: From Jew­ish Revolt to Mod­ern Myth
    Jodi Mag­ness
    Nonfiction
    The Art of Bible Translation
    Robert Alter
    Nonfiction
    Glean­ings: Reflec­tions on Ruth
    Stu­art Halpern
    Nonfiction
    Gen­der and Reli­gious Lead­er­ship: Women Rab­bis, Pas­tors, and Ministers
    Hart­mut Bomhoff, Denise L. Eger, Kathy Ehrensperg­er, Wal­ter Homol­ka (Edi­tors)
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    Halakhah: The Rab­binic Idea of Law
    Chaim N. Saiman
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    Schol­ar­ly Man of Faith: Stud­ies in the Thought and Writ­ings of Rab­bi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
    Ephraim Kanar­fo­gel Edit­ed by Dov Schwartz
    Nonfiction
    A Rich Brew: How Cafés Cre­at­ed Mod­ern Jew­ish Culture
    Shachar M. Pinsker
    Nonfiction
    The Stakes of His­to­ry: On the Use and Abuse of Jew­ish His­to­ry for Life
    David N. Myers
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    Etrog: How a Chi­nese Fruit Became a Jew­ish Symbol
    David Z. Moster
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    War­riors, Witch­es, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema
    Rachel S. Harris
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    The Great Shift: Encoun­ter­ing God in Bib­li­cal Times
    James L. Kugel
    Nonfiction
    The Mer­chants of Oran: A Jew­ish Port at the Dawn of Empire
    Joshua Schreier
    Nonfiction
    Ances­tral Tales: Read­ing the Bucza­cz Sto­ries of S.Y. Agnon
    Alan Mintz
    Nonfiction
    Mai­monides and the Mer­chants: Jew­ish Law and Soci­ety in the Medieval Islam­ic World
    Mark R. Cohen
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    Pious Irrev­er­ence: Con­fronting God in Rab­binic Judaism
    Dov Weiss
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    Con­fes­sions of the Shtetl: Con­verts from Judaism in Impe­r­i­al Rus­sia, 1817 – 1906
    Ellie R. Schainker
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    Con­sumer Cul­ture and the Mak­ing of Mod­ern Jew­ish Identity
    Gideon Reuveni
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