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    Mor­ton Merowitz

    Mor­ton Merowitz holds degrees from Yeshi­va Uni­ver­si­ty, the Drop­sie Col­lege for Hebrew and Cog­nate Learn­ing, and the State Uni­ver­si­ty of New York at Buf­fa­lo. He was involved in Jew­ish edu­ca­tion for some ten years and cur­rent­ly reviews non-fic­tion lit­er­a­ture which may be of inter­est and rel­e­vance to stu­dents and teach­ers of Jew­ish studies.
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    Cover of Civil Disobedience:The Israeli Experience
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    Civ­il Disobedience:The Israeli Experience
    Chemi Ben-Noon; Baruch Gefen, trans.
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    The Book of Job: A Biography
    Mark Larrimore
    Cover of Rise and Decline of Civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People
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    Rise and Decline of Civ­i­liza­tions: Lessons for the Jew­ish People
    Shalom Salomon Wald
    Cover of A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel
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    Edmund Levin
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    The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebel­lious Rothschild
    Hannah Rothschild
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    Israel Has Moved
    Diana Pinto
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    Lis­ten­ing to God: Inspi­ra­tional Sto­ries for My Grandchildren
    Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
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    No Reli­gion With­out Idol­a­try: Mendelssohn’s Jew­ish Enlightenment
    Gideon Freudenthal
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    Reck­less Rites: Purim and the Lega­cy of Jew­ish Violence
    Elliot Horowitz
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    Abraham P. Socher
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    Bruce L. Ruben
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    Abra­ham: The First His­tor­i­cal Biography
    David Rosen­berg
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    Jonathan Sacks

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