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    The Boy and the Lake
    Adam Pelzman
    Essay

    The Untold Sto­ry of the Box­ers and Mob­sters who Defend­ed Amer­i­ca against Hitler’s Nazi Empire

    Leslie K. Barry
    February 10, 2021
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    Amer­i­can Jew­ish Thought Since 1934: Writ­ings on Iden­ti­ty, Engage­ment, and Belief
    Edited by Michael Marmur and David Ellenson 
    Essay

    A Two-Thou­sand-Year-Old Love Sto­ry: The Inspi­ra­tion for Rebel Daughter

    Lori Banov Kaufmann
    February 8, 2021
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    The Unan­swered Let­ter: One Holo­caust Fam­i­ly’s Des­per­ate Plea for Help
    Faris Cas­sell
    Cover of When Rabbis Bless Congress: The Great American Story of Jewish Prayers on Capitol Hill
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    When Rab­bis Bless Con­gress: The Great Amer­i­can Sto­ry of Jew­ish Prayers on Capi­tol Hill
    Howard Mort­man
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    Afterlight: In Search of Poet­ry, His­to­ry, and Home
    Isa Milman
    Cover of International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War
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    Inter­na­tion­al Jew­ish Human­i­tar­i­an­ism in the Age of the Great War
    Jaclyn Granick
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    The Mem­o­ry Work of Jew­ish Spain
    Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa
    Cover of Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation
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    Invis­i­ble Enlight­en­ers: The Jew­ish Mer­chants of Mod­e­na, from the Renais­sance to the Emancipation 
    Federica Francesconi
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    Jew­ish Wom­en’s His­to­ry from Antiq­ui­ty to the Present
    Federica Francesconi and Rebecca Lynn Winer (Editors)
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    Pow­er and Emo­tion in Ancient Judaism: Com­mu­ni­ty and Iden­ti­ty in Formation
    Ari Mermelstein
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    Jew­ish Cul­tur­al Studies
    Simon J. Bronner
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    Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Chal­lenge to Israel
    Katell Berthelot
    Essay

    When a Home Is Not a Home

    Ona Rus­sell
    January 8, 2021
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    Han­nah Arendt and Lucy Daw­id­ow­icz: Zion­ism & Israel in the Minds of Two Great Intellectuals

    Thursday, February 25, 2021
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