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    Build­ing a Bet­ter Teacher: How Teach­ing Works (And How to Teach It to Everyone)
    Eliz­a­beth Green
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    Jonathan Rosen
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    Stars of David: Promi­nent Jews Talk About Being Jewish
    Abi­gail Pogrebin
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    Mar­ry­ing Out: Jew­ish Men, Inter­mar­riage, and Fatherhood
    Keren R. McGinity
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    Jews & Dias­po­ra Nation­al­ism: Writ­ings on Jew­ish Peo­ple­hood in Europe & The Unit­ed States
    Simon Rabinovitch, ed.
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    Did Jew Know?: A Handy Primer on the Cus­toms, Cul­ture & Prac­tice of the Cho­sen People
    Emi­ly Stone
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    Unscrolled: 54 Writ­ers and Artists Wres­tle with the Torah
    Roger Bennett, ed.
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    The Dev­il That Nev­er Dies: The Rise and Threat of Glob­al Antisemitism
    Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
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    How to Woo a Jew: The Mod­ern Jew­ish Guide to Dat­ing and Mating
    Tamar Caspi
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    Spoils
    Tam­mar Stein
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    Returns and Exchanges
    Yuri Kru­man
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    Kad­dish: Wom­en’s Voices
    Michal Smart and Barbara Ashkenas
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    Guid­ance, Not Gov­er­nance: Rab­bi Solomon B. Free­hof and Reform Responsa
    Joan S. Friedman
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    Far From the Tree: Par­ents, Chil­dren and the Search for Identity
    Andrew Solomon
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    God Was in This Place & I, I Did Not Know: Find­ing Self, Spir­i­tu­al­i­ty, and Ulti­mate Meaning
    Lawrence Kushner
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    Jews in the Los Ange­les Mosaic
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