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    Jeff Bogursky

    Jeff Bogursky reads a lot, writes a lit­tle and talks quite a bit. He is a media exec­u­tive and expert in dig­i­tal media.
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    A Jew­ish Renais­sance in Fif­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Spain
    Mark D. Meyerson
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    Cul­tur­al Inter­me­di­aries: Jew­ish Intel­lec­tu­als in Ear­ly Mod­ern Italy
    David B. Ruderman; Giuseppe Veltri, eds.
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    The God of Old: Inside the Lost World of the Bible
    James L. Kugel
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    Out of the Shtetl: Mak­ing Jews Mod­ern in the Pol­ish Borderlands
    Nan­cy Sinkoff
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    Simon Goldhill
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    Old Demons, New Debates: Anti-Semi­tism in the West
    David I. Kertzer, ed.
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    Peo­ple of the Book: Philosemitism in Eng­land from Cromwell to Churchill
    Gertrude Himmelfarb
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    Yaron Z. Eliav
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    The Bomb in the Base­ment: How Israel Went Nuclear and What That Means for the World
    Michael Karpin
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    The Lad­der of Jacob: Ancient Inter­pre­ta­tions of the Bib­li­cal Sto­ry of Jacob and His Children
    James L. Kugel
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    Yaron Peleg
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    Stand­ing With Israel: Why Chris­tians Sup­port the Jew­ish State
    David Brog
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    Arguably: Essays
    Christopher Hitchens
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    A Con­ve­nient Hatred: The His­to­ry of Antisemitism
    Phyllis Goldstein
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    Holy Wars: 3000 Years of Bat­tles in the Holy Land
    Gary Rashba

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    Interview

    JBW talks with Ambas­sador Stu­art Eizenstat

    JBC review­er Jeff Bogursky talks with the for­mer Ambas­sador to the EU about Israel, Jew­ish con­ti­nu­ity, and the role being Jew­ish has played in his career as…
    Jeff Bogursky
    November 5, 2012

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