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Modern Jewish Thought

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Lost Founder: Founder of Herself
Har­ri­et Rossetto
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Ethics at the Cen­ter: Jew­ish The­o­ry and Prac­tice for Liv­ing a Moral Life
Elliot N. Dorff
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Psy­cho­analy­sis and Wis­dom: Encoun­ter­ing ​‘Ethics of the Fathers’
Paul Mar­cus
The Triumph of Life
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The Tri­umph of Life: A Nar­ra­tive The­ol­o­gy of Judaism
Irv­ing Greenberg
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Tra­di­tion in an Untra­di­tion­al Age
Jonathan Sacks
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We Are Free to Change the World: Han­nah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience
Lyn­d­sey Stonebridge
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Embrac­ing Exile: The Case for Jew­ish Diaspora
David Krae­mer
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Com­mu­ni­ties of Mean­ing: Con­ver­sa­tions on Mod­ern Jew­ish Life Inspired by Rab­bi Lar­ry Hoffman
Joseph A. Skloot and Lisa J. Grushcow, eds. 
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On the Couch: Writ­ers Ana­lyze Sig­mund Freud
Andrew Blauner, ed.
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Women’s Friend­ship: From Ruth and Nao­mi to Hen­ri­et­ta Szold

Francine Klags­brun
June 3, 2024
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Woven Roots: Recov­er­ing the Heal­ing Plant Tra­di­tions of Jews and Their Neigh­bors in East­ern Europe
Deatra Cohen
Adam Siegel
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A Guide to The Guide to the Per­plexed: A Reader’s Com­pan­ion to Mai­monides’ Masterwork
Lenn E. Goodman
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Search­ing for Martha Freud

Daphne Merkin
May 13, 2024
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Liv­ing with Our Dead: On Loss and Consolation
Del­phine Horvilleur; Lisa Appig­nane­si, trans.
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The Holo­caust: An Unfin­ished History
Dan Stone
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Plagues and Hypothe­ses: Apply­ing Sci­ence to the Passover Story

Jere­my Brown
April 22, 2024
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