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    Contemporary Jewish Life

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    Ben-Guri­on: A Polit­i­cal Life
    Shimon Peres with David Landau
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    Wait­ing: Select­ed Nonfiction
    Elizabeth Swados
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    The Mod­ern Men’s Torah Com­men­tary: New Insights from Jew­ish Men on the 54 Week­ly Torah Portions
    Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, ed.
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    Emma Gold­man: Rev­o­lu­tion as a Way of Life
    Vivian Gornick
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    God of Our Under­stand­ing: Jew­ish Spir­i­tu­al­i­ty and Recov­ery from Addiction
    Rabbi Shais Taub
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    Kosher Chi­nese: Liv­ing, Teach­ing, and Eat­ing with Chi­na’s Oth­er Billion
    Michael Levy
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    Beyond the Façade: A Syn­a­gogue, A Restora­tion, A Legacy
    Larry Bortniker, Roberta Brandes Gratz, and Bonnie Dimun
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    Sin­ners on Tri­al: Jews and Sac­ri­lege after the Reformation
    Magda Teter
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    Amer­i­can Par­ent: My Sur­pris­ing Adven­tures in Mod­ern Babyland
    Sam Apple
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    Jew­ish Roots in South­ern Soil: A New History
    Marcie Cohen Ferris and Mark I. Greenberg, eds.
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    Invent­ing Great Neck-Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty and the Amer­i­can Dream
    Judith S. Goldstein
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    Hell Is Oth­er Par­ents: And Oth­er Tales of Mater­nal Combustion
    Deborah Copaken Kogan
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    Last Days in Baby­lon: The His­to­ry of a Fam­i­ly, The Sto­ry of a Nation
    Marina Benjamin
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    Being Jew­ish: The Spir­i­tu­al and Cul­tur­al Prac­tice of Judaism Today
    Ari L. Goldman
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    Sav­ing Israel: How the Jew­ish Peo­ple Can Win a War That May Nev­er End
    Daniel Gordis
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    Danya Rut­ten­berg
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