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    Items with the tag:

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    Leav­ing the Low­er East Side

    Jonathan Boyarin
    October 5, 2020
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    Non­fic­tion
    A Place of Exo­dus: Home, Mem­o­ry, and Texas
    David Biespiel
    Cover of Nahmanides: Law and Mysticism
    Non­fic­tion
    Nah­manides: Law and Mysticism
    Moshe Halbertal, Daniel Tabak (trans.)
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    Chil­dren’s
    A Bas­ket Full of Figs
    Ori Elon (auth.), Menahem Halberstadt (illus.)  
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    Fic­tion
    Col­lect­ed Stories
    Bruno Schulz (auth.), Rivka Galchen (foreward)
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    Poet­ry
    Some Unimag­in­able Animal
    David Eben­bach
    Cover of The Land of Truth: Talmud Tales, Timeless Teachings
    Jew­ish Text
    The Land of Truth: Tal­mud Tales, Time­less Teachings 
    Jef­frey L. Rubenstein
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    Josephus’s The Jew­ish War: A Biography
    Mar­tin Goodman
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    Grow­ing Weed in the Gar­den: A No-Fuss Seed-to-Stash Guide to Out­door Cannabis Cultivation
    Johan­na Silver
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    The Tal­mud: A Biography 
    Bar­ry Scott Wimpfheimer
    Cover of Learning to Read Talmud: What It Looks Like and How It Happens
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    Learn­ing to Read Tal­mud: What It Looks Like and How It Happens
    Jane L. Kanarek and Marjorie Lehman, eds.
    Essay

    30 Days, 30 Authors: Ilana Kurshan

    Ilana Kur­shan
    December 6, 2017
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    Jews, Gen­tiles, and Oth­er Ani­mals: The Tal­mud After the Humanities
    Mira Beth Wasserman
    Essay

    The Dra­ma of the Tal­mu­dic Page

    Ruby Nam­dar
    November 8, 2017
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    Rab­bi Aki­va: Sage of the Talmud
    Barry W. Holtz
    Essay

    Tal­mud as Literature

    Haim Watz­man
    April 12, 2017
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