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Cover of Judaism's Great Debates: Timeless Controversies from Abraham to Herzl
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Judais­m’s Great Debates: Time­less Con­tro­ver­sies from Abra­ham to Herzl
Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz
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Jerusalem’s Tem­ple Mount: From Solomon to the Gold­en Dome
Hershel Shanks
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Vien­na is Dif­fer­ent: Jew­ish Writ­ers in Aus­tria from the Fin de Siè­cle to the Present
Hillary Hope Herzog
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Dis­guised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Cre­ation of the Superhero
Danny Fingeroth; Stan Lee, fwd.
Cover of The Censor, The Editor, and The Text: The Catholic Church and The Shaping of The Jewish Canon in The Sixteenth Century
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The Cen­sor, The Edi­tor, and The Text: The Catholic Church and The Shap­ing of The Jew­ish Canon in The Six­teenth Century
Amnon Raz-Krakorzkin; Jackie Feldman, trans.
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The Para­noid Apoc­a­lypse: A Hun­dred-Year Ret­ro­spec­tive on The Pro­to­cols of the Elders of Zion
Richard Landes and Steven T. Katz, eds.
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They Called Me May­er July: Paint­ed Mem­o­ries of a Jew­ish Child­hood in Poland Before the Holocaust
Mayer Kirshenblatt; Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
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The Moscow Yid­dish The­ater: Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution
Benjamin Harshav; Benjamin and Barbara Harshav, trans.
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After Eman­ci­pa­tion: Jew­ish Reli­gious Respons­es to Modernity
David Ellenson
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Kristall­nacht, The Night of Bro­ken Glass: Ignit­ing the Nazi War Against Jews
Stephanie Fitzgerald
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The Shift: Israel-Pales­tine From Bor­der Strug­gle to Eth­nic Conflict
Menachem Klein
Cover of The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel
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The For­got­ten Pales­tini­ans: A His­to­ry of the Pales­tini­ans in Israel
Ilan Pappé
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The Road to Fati­ma Gate: The Beirut Spring, The Rise of Hezbol­lah and The Iran­ian War Against Israel
Michael J. Totten
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Jews and Judaism in the Mid­dle Ages
Theodore L. Steinberg
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The YIVO Ency­clo­pe­dia of Jews in East­ern Europe
Gershon David Hundert, ed.
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Geog­ra­phy of Hope: Exile, The Enlight­en­ment, Disassimilation
Pierre Birnbaum
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