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    The For­got­ten Jew­ish Ele­ment of the Wom­en’s Lib­er­a­tion Movement

    Joyce Antler
    March 7, 2018
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    Non­fic­tion
    Jew­ish Rad­i­cal Fem­i­nism: Voic­es from the Women’s Lib­er­a­tion Movement
    Joyce Antler
    Essay

    Rein­vent­ing the Black-Jew­ish Alliance of the 1960s

    Marc Dollinger
    February 26, 2018
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    Black Pow­er, Jew­ish Pol­i­tics: Rein­vent­ing the Alliance in the 1960s
    Marc Dollinger
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    Maybe Esther: A Fam­i­ly Story
    Katja Petrowskaja;‎ Shelley Frisch, trans.
    Cover of The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times
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    The Great Shift: Encoun­ter­ing God in Bib­li­cal Times
    James L. Kugel
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    Anato­my of a Geno­cide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz
    Omer Bar­tov
    Cover of Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America
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    Ambiva­lent Embrace: Jew­ish Upward Mobil­i­ty in Post­war America
    Rachel Kranson
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    What Are the Ten Commandments?
    Yona Zeldis McDonough & Who HQ; Tim Foley, illus.
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    1947: Where Now Begins
    Elisabeth Åsbrink; Fiona Graham, trans.
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    Before All Mem­o­ry is Lost: Wom­en’s Voic­es From the Holocaust
    Myrna Goldenberg
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    Seek­ing Asy­lum in Israel: Refugees and the His­to­ry of Migra­tion Law
    Gilad Ben-Nun
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    Con­fes­sions of the Shtetl: Con­verts from Judaism in Impe­r­i­al Rus­sia, 1817 – 1906
    Ellie R. Schainker
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    Across Legal Lines: Jews and Mus­lims in Mod­ern Morocco
    Jessica M. Marglin
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    Con­sumer Cul­ture and the Mak­ing of Mod­ern Jew­ish Identity
    Gideon Reuveni
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    The Many Deaths of Jew Suss: The Noto­ri­ous Tri­al and Exe­cu­tion of an Eigh­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Court Jew
    Yair Mintzk­er
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