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    Cover of The Hidden Order of Intimacy: Reflections on the Book of Leviticus
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    The Hid­den Order of Inti­ma­cy: Reflec­tions on the Book of Leviticus
    Avi­vah Got­tlieb Zornberg
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    Jer­ry Z. Muller
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    Rebecca Kobrin
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    Tamar Biala, ed.
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    Beyond Zion:The Jew­ish Ter­ri­to­ri­al­ist Movement
    Lau­ra Almagor
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    Bib­li­cal Women and Jew­ish Dai­ly Life in the Mid­dle Ages
    Eli­she­va Baumgarten
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    Com­ing to Terms with Amer­i­ca: Essays on Jew­ish His­to­ry, Reli­gion, and Culture
    Jonathan D. Sarna
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    A Col­lage of Customs
    Mark Pod­w­al
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    The Ravine: A Fam­i­ly, a Pho­to­graph, a Holo­caust Mas­sacre Revealed
    Wendy Lower
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    In the Begin­ning of the Begin­ning 2nd Edition
    Har­ry Amdurer
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    Recipes for a New Begin­ning: Tran­syl­van­ian Jew­ish Sto­ries of Life, Hunger, and Hope
    Kinga Júlia Király
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    Shak­ing Up the Tanakh

    Ali­son L. Joseph
    May 3, 2021
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    Paola Tartakoff
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    Cel­e­brat­ing Purim in a Slave Society

    Avi­va Ben-Ur
    February 26, 2021
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