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    Cover of Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas: Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community
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    Entwined Home­lands, Empow­ered Dias­po­ras: His­pan­ic Moroc­can Jews and Their Glob­al­iz­ing Community
    Avi­ad Moreno
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    The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History
    Nir Ariel­li
    Cover of Following Similar Paths: What American Jews and Muslims Can Learn from One Another
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    Fol­low­ing Sim­i­lar Paths: What Amer­i­can Jews and Mus­lims Can Learn from One Another
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    The Busi­ness of Tran­si­tion: Jew­ish and Greek Mer­chants of Saloni­ca from Ottoman to Greek Rule
    Paris Papami­chos Chronakis
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    The Mak­ing of Dias­po­ra in the Ancient World

    Mal­ka Z. Simkovich
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    Ances­tral Ally­ship: Lessons on Ally­ship as Spir­i­tu­al Prac­tice in the Week­ly Torah Portion
    Mike Moskowitz
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    Frac­tured Tablets: For­get­ful­ness and Fal­li­bil­i­ty in Late Ancient Rab­binic Culture
    Mira Bal­berg
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    The Last Words of Moses
    Micah Goodman; Ilana Kurshan, trans.
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    Baby­lon­ian Jews and Sasan­ian Impe­ri­al­ism in Late Antiquity
    Sim­cha Gross
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    Abra­ham: The Sto­ry of a Journey
    Jonathan Grossman
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    Eccle­si­astes and the Search for Meaning
    Eri­ca Brown
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    Queer Judaism
    Orit Avishai
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    Ronit Irsahi and Tanya Zion-Waldoks
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    Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust 
    Ari Joskow­icz
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    The Ori­gins of Judaism: An Archae­o­log­i­cal-His­tor­i­cal Reappraisal
    Yonatan Adler
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    The Sages: Char­ac­ter, Con­text and Cre­ativ­i­ty, Vol. V: The Yeshiv­ot of Baby­lo­nia and Israel
    Binyamin Lau; Ilana Kur­shan, trans.
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