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    Defend­er of the Faith­ful: The Life and Thought of Rab­bi Levi Yit­shak of Berdychiv
    Arthur Green
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    The Sacred Earth: Jew­ish Per­spec­tives on Our Planet
    Andrue J. Kahn, ed.
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    For Women and Girls Only: Reshap­ing Jew­ish Ortho­doxy Through the Arts in the Dig­i­tal Age
    Jes­si­ca Roda
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    Ques­tion­ing Belief: Torah and Tra­di­tion in an Age of Doubt
    Raphael Zarum
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    Fun­ny, You Don’t Look Fun­ny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Gen­er­a­tion to Millennials
    Jen­nifer Caplan
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    Bib­li­cal Women Speak: Hear­ing Their Voic­es through New and Ancient Midrash
    Mar­la Feldman
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    Jew­ish Sum­mer Camp and the Myth of the ​“Seri­ous”

    San­dra Fox
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    The Jews of Sum­mer: Sum­mer Camp and Jew­ish Cul­ture in Post­war America
    San­dra Fox
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    Queer Judaism
    Orit Avishai
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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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    Israel’s Moment: Inter­na­tion­al Sup­port for and Oppo­si­tion to Estab­lish­ing the Jew­ish State, 1945 – 1949
    Jef­frey Herf
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    Invent­ing William of Nor­wich: Thomas of Mon­mouth, Anti­semitism, and Lit­er­ary Cul­ture, 1150 – 1200
    Heather Blur­ton
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    Ruth: A Migrant’s Tale
    Ilana Pardes
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    The Book of Rev­o­lu­tions: The Bat­tles of Priests, Prophets, and Kings That Birthed the Torah
    Edward Feld
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    Tales from the Bor­der­lands: Mak­ing and Unmak­ing the Gali­cian Past
    Omer Bar­tov
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