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    The Old Jew­ish Men’s Guide to Eat­ing, Sleep­ing, and Futz­ing Around
    Noah Rin­sky
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    Thread­bare
    Jane Loeb Rubin
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    Avi Shalev
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    Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jew­ish Life and Her­itage in Mod­ern Cairo
    Yoram Meital
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    The Braille Ency­clo­pe­dia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight
    Nao­mi Cohn
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    Sabor Judío: The Jew­ish Mex­i­can Cookbook
    Ilan Sta­vans
    Mar­garet E. Boyle
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    Becom­ing Janet: Find­ing Myself in the Holocaust
    Janet Singer Applefield
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    Tra­di­tion and Tran­si­tion: Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ties and the Hyper-Empow­ered Individual
    Andrés Spokoiny
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    For Such a Time as This: On Being Jew­ish Today
    Elliot Cos­grove
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