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History

Cover of Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance
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Prac­tic­ing Piety in Medieval Ashke­naz: Men, Women, and Every­day Reli­gious Observance
Elisheva Baumgarten
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Sephar­di Lives: A Doc­u­men­tary His­to­ry, 1700 – 1950
Julia Phillips Cohen and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, eds.
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Becom­ing Ottomans: Sephar­di Jews and Impe­r­i­al Cit­i­zen­ship in the Mod­ern Era
Julia Phillips Cohen
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Jew­ish Rights, Nation­al Rites: Nation­al­ism and Auton­o­my in Late Impe­r­i­al and Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Russia
Simon Rabinovitch
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The Busi­ness of Iden­ti­ty: Jews, Mus­lims and Eco­nom­ic Life in Medieval Egypt
Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman
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A Ques­tion of Tra­di­tion: Women Poets in Yid­dish, 1586 – 1987
Kathryn Hellerstein
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Her­zl’s Vision: Theodor Her­zl and the Foun­da­tion of the Jew­ish State
Shlomo Avineri; Haim Watzman, trans.
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Jew­ish Mad Men: Adver­tis­ing and the Design of the Amer­i­can Jew­ish Experience
Ker­ri P. Steinberg
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Stum­bling on Jew­ish Sup­pli­ers to the Confederacy

Adam D. Mendel­sohn is Direc­tor of the Pearlstine/​Lipov Cen­ter for South­ern Jew­ish Cul­ture and Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Jew­ish Stud­ies at the Col­lege of Charleston. His…
Adam D. Mendelsohn
December 16, 2014
Essay

Where Should We Have Gone?

Ear­li­er this week, Adam Rovn­er wrote about the top five alter­na­tive Jew­ish home­lands that he did­n’t explore in his new book, In the Shad­ow of Zion: Promised Lands…
Adam Rovn­er
December 10, 2014
Essay

Top 5 Promised Lands I Didn’t Explore

Adam Rovn­er is the author of In the Shad­ow of Zion: Promised Lands before Israel out this week from NYU Press. He will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book…
Adam Rovn­er
December 8, 2014
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Encoun­ter­ing Ellis Island: How Euro­pean Immi­grants Entered America
Ronald H. Bayor
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The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Suc­cess in Amer­i­ca and the British Empire
Adam D. Mendelsohn
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Saha­ran Jews and the Fate of French Algeria
Sarah Abre­vaya Stein
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Mediter­ranean Enlight­en­ment: Livor­nese Jews, Tus­can Cul­ture, and Eigh­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Reform
Francesca Bregoli
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Risk­ing Every­thing: A Free­dom Sum­mer Reader
Michael Edmonds, ed.
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