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Interview with Scholars of Judaism about their New Books
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Y. Tzvi Langermann, "Before Maimonides: A New Philosophical Dialogue in Hebrew" (Brill, 2023)
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May 11, 2024 |
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David Tal, "The Making of an Alliance: The Origins and Development of the US-Israel Relationship" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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May 08, 2024 |
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Jason F. Moraff, "Reading the Way, Paul, and 'the Jews' in Acts Within Judaism" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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May 08, 2024 |
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"The US Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume IV" (Indiana UP, 2022)
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May 06, 2024 |
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Prit Buttar, "Centuries Will Not Suffice: A History of the Lithuanian Holocaust" (Amberley, 2023)
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May 05, 2024 |
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Francesca Trivellato, "The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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May 05, 2024 |
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Chris Webb, "The Sobibor Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance" (Ibidem Verlag, 2017)
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Steven Nadler, "Spinoza: A Life" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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John Tolan, "England's Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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On the History and Evolution of Zionism
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Robert Rozett and Iael Nidam-Orvieto, "After So Much Pain and Anguish: First Letters After Liberation" (Yad Vashem, 2016)
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Stuart Halpern and Jacob Kupietzky, "The Promise of Liberty: A Passover Haggada" (Maggid, 2024)
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Debby Koren, "Responsa in a Historical Context: A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities Through 16th- And 17th-Century Responsa" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Kerry Wallach, "Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit" (Penn State UP, 2024)
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Steven Ujifusa, "The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I" (HarperCollins, 2023)
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Jae Hee Han, "Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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Aidan Beatty and Dan O'Brien, "Irish Questions and Jewish Questions: Crossovers in Culture" (Syracuse UP, 2018)
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Tzafrir Barzilay, "Poisoned Wells: Accusations, Persecution, and Minorities in Medieval Europe, 1321-1422" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Gustavo Guzmán, "Attitudes of the Chilean Right toward Jews: From Acceptable Undesirables to Respected Businessmen" (Brill, 2022)
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Sandra Fox, "The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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Michael LeFebvre, "Collections, Codes, and Torah: The Re-characterization of Israel's Written Law" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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Paola Tartakoff, "Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2012)
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Chiara Renzo, "Jewish Displaced Persons in Italy 1943-1951: Politics, Rehabilitation, Identity" (Routledge, 2023)
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Jehanne Dubrow, "Exhibitions: Essays on Art and Atrocity" (U New Mexico Press, 2023)
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Kira Sirote, "Haftorah Unrolled: Weekly Insights from the Prophets" (2018)
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Shoshanna Lockshin and Efrayim Unterman, "The Devash Megillat Esther" (Hadar Press, 2024)
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Yaacov Nir, "Establishment and History of the Cyprus Detention Camps for Jewish Refugees (1946-1949)" (Cambridge Scholars, 2024)
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Rachel Gordan, "Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Rachel Blumenthal, "Right to Reparations: The Claims Conference and Holocaust Survivors, 1951–1964" (Lexington, 2021)
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Dan Stone, "The Holocaust: An Unfinished History" (Mariner Books, 2023)
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa, "The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust" (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Stephanie Chasin, "British Jews and Imperial Service: Nationalism, Pan-Islamism and Zionism in Mandate Palestine and Colonial India" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Robin Baker, "Hollow Men, Strange Women: Riddles, Codes, and Otherness in the Book of Judges" (Brill, 2016)
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Julie Kalman, "The Kings of Algiers: How Two Jewish Families Shaped the Mediterranean World During the Napoleonic Wars and Beyond" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Sarah A. Cramsey, "Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the Ethnic Revolution in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936-1946" (Indiana UP, 2023)
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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The Reeducation of Race with Sonali Thakkar (JP)
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Leona Toker, "Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontexual Reading" (Indiana UP, 2019)
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler, "The Jewish Annotated New Testament" (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Yaniv Feller, "The Jewish Imperial Imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Roman Dziarski, "How We Outwitted and Survived the Nazis: The True Story of the Holocaust Rescuers, Zofia Sterner and Her Family" (Academic Studies, 2024)
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Maxine Lowy, "Latent Memory: Human Rights and Jewish Identity in Chile" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Ivo Goldstein and Slavko Goldstein, "The Holocaust in Croatia" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Marcia Bricker Halperin, "Kibbitz and Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow's Cafeteria" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Till Van Rahden, "Multiplicity: Jewish History and the Ambivalences of Universalism" (Hamburger Editionen, 2022)
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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Bojan Aleksov, "Jewish Refugees in the Balkans, 1933-1945" (Brill, 2023)
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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Raanan Rein, "Populism and Ethnicity: Peronism and the Jews of Argentina" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Safwat Marzouk, "Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel" (Mohr Siebeck, 2015)
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Mara Josi, "Rome, 16 October 1943: History, Memory, Literature" (Legenda, 2023)
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Daphna Sharfman, "Jerusalem in the Second World War" (Routledge, 2024)
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Jewish War Ethics, Ancient to Contemporary: A Conversation with Rabbi Shlomo Brody
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Paul Mendes-Flohr, "Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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George Eisen, "A Summer of Mass Murder: 1941 Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust" (Purdue UP, 2022)
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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More on "Cleanliness" (nekiyut)
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Dallas Michelbacher, "Jewish Forced Labor in Romania, 1940-1944" (Indiana UP, 2020)
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Serhiy Bilenky, "Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine Between Empire and Nation, 1772-1914" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Robin Judd, "Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Anton Weiss-Wendt, "On the Margins: Essays on the History of Jews in Estonia" (CEU Press, 2017)
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Hillel Goldberg, "Across the Expanse of Jewish Thought: From the Holocaust to Halakhah and Beyond" (Ktav, 2022)
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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John J. Michalczyk et al.. "Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ and the Holocaust: A Prelude to Genocide" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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On Zionism and the Left: A Discussion with Author and Cultural Critic Susie Linfield
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Chaim Miller, "Torah, the Five Books of Moses (with Complete Haftarah Cycle)" (Kol Menachem, 2011)
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Yitzhak Teutsch, "The Cyprus Detention Camps: The Essential Research Guide" (Cambridge Scholars, 2019)
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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On Henry Einspruch's 1941 Yiddish Translation of the Christian Bible
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Geoffrey Levin, "Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Adin Stinsaltz, "The Steinsaltz Humash, 2nd Edition (Hebrew and English Edition)" (Koren, 2019)
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Uri Kaufman, "Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Jacob L. Wright, "Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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Aviva Ben-Ur and Wim Klooster eds., "Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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More on "Decisiveness" (harizut)
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Yair Furstenberg, "Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism: From the Temple to the Mishnah" (Indiana UP, 2023)
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Ayelet Brinn, "A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Ofer Ashkenazi, "Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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James Robson, "Word and Spirit in Ezekiel" (T&T Clark, 2006)
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Jennifer Cazenave, "An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah" (SUNY Press, 2019)
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Bryan Mark Rigg, "The Rabbi Saved by Hitler's Soldiers: Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn and His Astonishing Rescue" (UP of Kansas, 2016)
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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A Roundup Conversation About Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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The Trait of "Decisiveness" (harizut)
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Jelena Subotić, "Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Scott D. Seligman, "Murder in Manchuria: The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Naming The Need For "Order"
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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David M. Freidenreich, "Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy" (U California Press, 2023)
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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"Order" and the Big Reveal
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Yaron Eliav, "A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Simone Gigliotti, "Restless Archive: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced" (Indiana UP, 2023)
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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Violent Majorities: Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 2
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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More on Joseph and "Order": On Genesis 41:1-44:17
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Julia Watts Belser, "Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole" (Beacon Press, 2023)
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Martin C. Dean, "Investigating Babyn Yar: Shadows from the Valley of Death" (Lexington Books, 2023)
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Raquel Ukeles et al., "101 Treasures from the National Library of Israel" (Scala Arts, 2022)
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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Jeffrey S. Gurock, "Marty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah et al., "Life & Legacy: A Window into Jewish Life Across the Islamic World" (U Groningen Press, 2023)
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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"Order" in Joseph's Extraordinary Dreams
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Guy Miron, "Space and Time Under Persecution: The German-Jewish Experience in the Third Reich" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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J. Christopher Edwards, "Crucified: The Christian Invention of the Jewish Executioners of Jesus" (Fortress Press, 2023)
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Joshua Skarf, "ArchitecTorah: Architectural Ideas in Judaism and the Weekly Torah Portion" (Urim, 2023)
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Loving Acts Through Patience: On the VaYishlach
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Ian Probstein, trans., "Centuries Encircle Me with Fire: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Roslyn Weiss, "Hasdai Crescas: Collected Writings" (Library of the Jewish People, 2023)
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Dan Senor and Saul Singer, "The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Katerina Lagos, "The Fourth of August Regime and Greek Jewry, 1936-1941" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Donating Books to Children: A Chat with Alex Zabolotsky of PJ Library
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Jacob, Leah, Rachel and the "Middah" of Patience
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Israel, Hamas, and American Jews in a Time of War
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Providence and Power: Rabbi Meir Soloveichik on Jewish Statesmanship from King David to David Ben Gurion
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Nechama Price, "Tribal Blueprints: Twelve Brothers and the Destiny of Israel" (Maggid, 2020)
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Maxim D. Shrayer, "I Saw It: Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah" (Academic Studies Press, 2013)
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Mira Balberg, "Fractured Tablets: Forgetfulness and Fallibility in Late Ancient Rabbinic Culture" (U California Press, 2023)
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Steven B. Bowman, "Sepher Yosippon: A Tenth-Century History of Ancient Israel" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Building Wells of Patience
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Dalia Kandiyoti, "The Converso's Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Walter A. Maier III, "1 Kings 12-22: Concordia Commentary" (Concordia, 2019)
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Walter A. Maier III, "1 Kings 1-11: Concordia Commentary" (Concordia, 2018)
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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The Flow of Patience
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Megan Nutzman, "Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Austin Surls, "Making Sense of the Divine Name in the Book of Exodus: From Etymology to Literary Onomastics" (Eisenbrauns, 2017)
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Carson Bay, "Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Equanimity in Dark Times
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Marat Grinberg, "The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Equanimity and Abraham
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Linda Kinstler, "Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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The Israeli Defense Force (IDF)'s Ethical Code
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Yanki Tauber, "The Book of Genesis with Commentary and Insights from 500 Sages and Mystics" (Open Book Press, 2022)
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Equanimity and Noaḥ
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Equanimity and Bereshit
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Sebastian Huebel, "Fighter, Worker, and Family Man: German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933–1941" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Matthew Thiessen, "A Jewish Paul: The Messiah's Herald to the Gentiles" (Baker Academic, 2023)
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Melissa Weininger, "Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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Stefan C. Ionescu, "Jewish Resistance to ‘Romanianization’, 1940-44" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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The Unquiet Legacy of Jewish Radical Meir Kahane
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Harriet Murav and Gennady Estraikh, "Soviet Jews in World War II: Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering" (Academic Studies Press, 2018)
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Seth L. Sanders, "From Adapa to Enoch: Scribal Culture and Religious Vision in Judea and Babylonia" (Mohr Siebeck, 2017)
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Ronna Detrick, "Rewriting Eve: Claiming Women's Sacred Stories As Our Own" (She Writes Press, 2023)
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Adolph L. Harstad, "Deuteronomy: Concordia Commentary" (Concordia Publishing House, 2022)
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Martina Mampieri, "Living Under the Evil Pope: The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Neḥemiah Ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche (Brill, 2020)
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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Rachel Elior, "The Unknown History of Jewish Women Through the Ages: On Learning and Illiteracy, On Slavery and Liberty" (de Gruyter, 2023)
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Hammertime and Hanukkah (with Matthew and Leeanne Thomas)
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Ruth Schwertfeger, "A Nazi Camp Near Danzig: Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Katarzyna Person and Johannes-Dieter Steinert, "Przemysłowa Concentration Camp: The Camp, the Children, the Trials" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Anthony Gad Bigio, "A Sephardi Turkish Patriot: Gad Franco in the Turmoil of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic" (Hamilton Books, 2023)
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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Nathan Bills, "A Theology of Justice in Exodus" (Eisenbrauns, 2020)
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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Avigdor Hameiri, "Under a Bloodred Sky: Avigdor Hameiri’s War Stories and Poetry" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Arnold Lustiger, "Before Hashem You Shall Be Purified: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik on the Days of Awe" (Ohr Publishing, 2022)
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Matisyahu Shulman, "Reimagining Repentance: Experiencing the High Holidays Through the Lens of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy" (Kodesh, 2023)
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, "Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther: Achaemenid Court Culture in the Hebrew Bible" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Norman Ravvin, "Who Gets In: An Immigration Story" (U Regina Press, 2023)
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Alma Rachel Heckman, "The Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Jonathan Sandler, "The English GI: World War II Graphic Memoir of a Yorkshire Schoolboy's Adventures in the United States and Europe" (2022)
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Valerie Hébert ed., "Framing the Holocaust: Photographs of a Mass Shooting in Latvia, 1941" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Tomaz Jardim, "Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the 'Bitch of Buchenwald'" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Nancy L. Segal, "The Twin Children of the Holocaust: Stolen Childhood and the Will to Survive" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Andrew Hesketh, "Escape to Gwrych Castle: A Jewish Refugee Story" (U of Wales Press, 2023)
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Romina Yalonetzky, "Gente Como Uno: Class, Belonging, and Transnationalism in Jewish Life in Lima" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Heike Bauer et al., "Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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H. Norman Strickman, "The Secret of the Torah: A Translation of Abraham Ibn Ezra's Sefer Yesod Mora" (Kodesh Press, 2021)
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Wolf Gruner, "Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Jane L. Kanarek and Marjorie Lehman, "Learning to Read Talmud: What It Looks Like and How It Happens" (Academic Studies Press, 2017)
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Pothiti Hantzaroula, "Child Survivors of the Holocaust in Greece: Memory, Testimony and Subjectivity" (Routledge, 2020)
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Ari Finkelstein, "The Specter of the Jews: Emperor Julian and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity in Syrian Antioch" (U California Press, 2018)
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Jason Weiner, "Care and Covenant: A Jewish Bioethic of Responsibility" (Georgetown UP, 2022)
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Yehuda Halper, "Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age Without Plato: Permitting and Forbidding Open-Inquiry in 12-15th Century Europe and North Africa" (Brill, 2021)
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Gadi Sagiv, "Jewish Blues: A History of a Color in Judaism" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Shana Rosenblatt Mauer, "Mordecai Richler's Imperfect Search for Moral Values" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Esra Özyürek, "Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Stanley E. Porter and Alan E. Kurschner eds., "The Future Restoration of Israel: A Response to Supersessionism" (Pickwick, 2023)
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Mike Rothschild, "Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories" (Melville House, 2023)
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Jack Cohen and Yosef Lynn, "Nurture Their Nature: The Torah’s Essential Guidance for Parents and Teachers" (Mosaica Press, 2021)
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Joshua Cohen’s "The Netanyahus" (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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James Crossley and Robert J. Myles, "Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict" (Zero Books, 2023)
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Lea Taragin-Zeller, "The State of Desire: Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Yamin Levy, "The Mysticism of Andalusia: Exploring HaRambam's Mystical Tradition" (MHC Press, 2023)
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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Erica Brown, "Ecclesiastes and the Search for Meaning" (Maggid, 2023)
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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Paul Hanebrink, "In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890–1944" (Cornell UP, 2018)
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Moshe Miller, "Rising Moon: Unraveling the Book of Ruth" (Kodesh Press, 2022)
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Béla Bodó, "Black Humor and the White Terror" (Routledge, 2023)
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg, "Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2018)
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Ben Nadler, "The Jewish Deli: An Illustrated Guide to the Chosen Food" (Chronicle Books, 2023)
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Judith Roumani, "Jews in Southern Tuscany During the Holocaust" (Lexington Books, 2020)
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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David Curwin, "Kohelet: A Map to Eden" (Maggid, 2023)
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon, 2022)
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg, "The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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Daniel Boyarin, "The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Jennifer Caplan, "Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Lia Brozgal and Rebecca Glasberg, eds., "A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories Curated by Leïla Sebbar" (U California Press, 2023)
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Brad Stoddard and Craig Martin, "Stereotyping Religion II: Critiquing Clichés" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Anna Müller, "An Ordinary Life?: The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918-1996" (Ohio UP, 2023)
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Edward Kissi, "Africans and the Holocaust: Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples" (Routledge, 2021)
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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David Wenham, "Jesus in Context: Making Sense of the Historical Figure" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Yaakov Beasley, "Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah: Lights in the Valley" (Maggid, 2020)
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Illuminations Episode 9: Rituals for a Dying World
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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W. Gil Shin, "The 'Exodus' in Jerusalem (Luke 9:31): A Lukan Form of Israel's Restoration Hope" (Brill, 2022)
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Orit Avishai, "Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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Daniel A. Klein, "Shadal on Numbers: Samuel David Luzzatto's Interpretation of the Book of Bemidbar" (Kodesh Press, 2023)
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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Pinchas Blitt, "A Promise of Sweet Tea" (Azrieli Foundation, 2021)
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Randy Grigsby, "This Labyrinth of Darkness and Light: Henrietta Szold, the Rescue of Children from Hitler's Europe and Her Palestine Experience" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2022)
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Randy Grigsby, "A Train to Palestine: The Tehran Children, Anders' Army and Their Escape from Stalin's Siberia, 1939-1943" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2019)
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Eliyana R. Adler and Katerina Capková, "Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and its Aftermath" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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Hilary Frances Aked, "Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity" (Verso, 2023)
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May 30, 2023 |
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Béla Bodó, "The White Terror: Antisemitic and Political Violence in Hungary, 1919-1921" (Routledge, 2019)
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May 30, 2023 |
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Bart D. Ehrman, "Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
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May 28, 2023 |
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Jessica M. Marglin, "The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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May 27, 2023 |
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Aomar Boum, "Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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May 26, 2023 |
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Saskia Coenen Snyder, "A Brilliant Commodity: Diamonds and Jews in a Modern Setting" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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May 25, 2023 |
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Avigail Rock, "Great Biblical Commentators: Biographies, Methodologies, and Contributions" (Maggid, 2023)
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May 23, 2023 |
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Elly Gotz, "Flights of Spirit" (Azrieli Foundation, 2018)
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May 20, 2023 |
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Simon Geissbühler, ed., "Romania and the Holocaust: Events, Contexts, Aftermath" (Ibidem Press, 2016)
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May 19, 2023 |
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Daniel Gordis, "Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams?" (Ecco Press, 2023)
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May 17, 2023 |
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Oded Zinger, "Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
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May 11, 2023 |
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Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)
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May 10, 2023 |
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Samantha Pickette, "Peak TV's Unapologetic Jewish Woman: Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy" (Lexington, 2022)
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May 07, 2023 |
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Ephraim Chamiel, "To Know Torah" (2018)
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May 06, 2023 |
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Daniel Roth, "Third-Party Peacemakers in Judaism: Text, Theory, and Practice" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 03, 2023 |
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Ostap Kin, "Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond" (HURI, 2022)
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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Remember the Sabbath (with Senator Joe Lieberman)
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Crispin Brooks and Kiril Feferman, "Beyond the Pale: The Holocaust in the North Caucasus" (U Rochester Press, 2020)
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Barak S. Cohen, "For Out of Babylonia Shall Come Torah and the Word of the Lord from Nehar Peqod" (Brill, 2017)
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Barak S. Cohen, "The Legal Methodology of Late Nehardean Sages in Sasanian Babylonia" (Brill, 2011)
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Writing the Counter-Book: Joshua Cohen with Eugene Sheppard (JP)
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Joshua Berman, "Narrative Analogy in the Hebrew Bible: Battle Stories and Their Equivalent Non-battle Narratives" (Brill, 2004)
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Timothy Sean Quinn, "Apiqoros: The Last Essays of Salomon Maimon" (Hebrew Union College Press, 2021)
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Piotr M. A. Cywiński, "Auschwitz: A Monograph on the Human" (Muzeum Auschwitz, 2022)
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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The Future of Antisemitism: A Discussion with Dave Rich
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Laura Hobson Faure, "A 'Jewish Marshall Plan': The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France" (Indiana UP, 2022)
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Helene J. Sinnreich, "The Atrocity of Hunger: Starvation in the Warsaw, Lodz and Krakow Ghettos during World War II" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Laura Arnold Leibman, "Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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S. L. Wisenberg, "The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Andrea Hammel, "Finding Refuge: Stories of the Men, Women and Children who fFed to Wales to Escape the Nazis" (Honno Press, 2022)
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Jeremy Kagan, "The Intellect and the Exodus" (Maggid, 2018)
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Andrew D. Berns, "The Land Is Mine: Sephardi Jews and Bible Commentary in the Renaissance" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Ari Joskowicz, "Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Philip Jenkins, "He Will Save You from the Deadly Pestilence: The Many Lives of Psalm 91" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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David Horgan, "Helmi's Shadow: A Journey of Survival from Russia to East Asia to the American West" (U Nevada Press, 2021)
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Sara Koplik, "A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan" (Brill, 2015)
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Eric Alterman, "We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel" (Basic Book, 2022)
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Suzanna Eibuszyc, "Memory Is Our Home: Loss and Remembering--Three Generations in Poland and Russia 1917-1960s" (Ibidem, 2022)
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Roni Mikel-Arieli, "Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State: Holocaust Memory in South Africa from Apartheid to Democracy (1948-1994)" (de Gruyter, 2022)
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Karen Baum Gordon, "The Last Letter: A Father's Struggle, a Daughter's Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust" (U Tennessee Press, 2021)
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Kieron Pim, "Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth" (Granta Books, 2022)
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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Max Kaiser, "Jewish Antifascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Publishing Jewish Children's Books: A Chat with Joni Sussman
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Simon Parkin, "The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp" (Scribner, 2022)
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Ellin Bessner, "Double Threat: Canadian Jews, the Military, and World War II" (New Jewish Press, 2018)
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Roy Schwartz, "Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero" (McFarland, 2021)
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Book Talk 58: Vivian Gornick on Emma Goldman
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Philip W. Blood, "Birds of Prey: Hitler's Luftwaffe, Ordinary Soldiers, and the Holocaust in Poland" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Omer Bartov, "The Butterfly and the Axe" (Amsterdam Publishers, 2023)
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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The Sobibor and Treblinka Death Camps: A Discussion with Chris Webb
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Sharon Shalom, "From Sinai to Ethiopia: The Halakhic and Conceptual World of the Ethiopian Jews" (Gefen Books, 2016)
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Kiril Feferman, "If We Had Wings We Would Fly to You: A Soviet Jewish Family Faces Destruction 1941-42" (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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On Chaim Grade’s "The Yeshiva"
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Jordan Gorfinkel, "The Koren Tanakh Graphic Novel: Esther" (Koren, 2023)
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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Reuven Mohl, "Faith Fulfilled: Megillat Esther and Ma'ariv Evening Service for Purim" (Urim Publications, 2022)
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Francine Lazarus, "A Hidden Jewish Child from Belgium: Survival, Scars and Healing" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2017)
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Measure for Measure Episode 2: Olives
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Kenneth R. Stow, "Anna and Tranquillo: Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolutions" (Yale UP, 2016)
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Ron Hirschbein and Amin Asfari, "Jews and Muslims in the White Supremacist Conspiratorial Imagination" (Routledge, 2023)
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Susan Weingarten, "Haroset: A Taste of Jewish History" (Toby Press, 2019)
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Alexandra Chiriac, "Performing Modernism: A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest" (de Gruyter, 2022)
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Jonathan Homrighausen, "Planting Letters and Weaving Lines: The Song of Songs, and The Saint Johns Bible" (Liturgical Press, 2022)
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Sarah M. Zaides, "Tevye's Ottoman Daughter: Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews at the End of Empire" (Libra Kitap, 2022)
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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More on Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Digging for Answers: The Archaeology of Jerusalem and the Politics of Archaeology
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Peter Hayes, "Why? Explaining the Holocaust" (Norton, 2017)
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Elżbieta Janicka and Michael Steinlauf, "This Was Not America: A Wrangle Through Jewish-Polish-American History" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2022)
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Oren Kessler, "Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Azzan Yadin-Israel, "Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Jonathan Rivett Robinson, "Markan Typology: Miracle, Scripture and Christology in Mark 4:35–6:45" (T&T Clark, 2022)
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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David Arnovitz, "The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel: Exodus" (Koren, 2020)
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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John D. Hosler, "Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Rūta Vanagaitė and Efraim Zuroff, "Our People: Discovering Lithuania's Hidden Holocaust" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Rhiannon Graybill, "Texts After Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Daniel Lasker, "Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism" (Littman Library, 2022)
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Jacky Comforty, "The Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust" (Lexington Books, 2021)
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Canadian Witnesses to the Horrors of the Holocaust
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Iggerot Malkhei Rabbanan: Letters From Leading Torah Scholars to Melekh (Marc B.) Shapiro
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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Golda Akhiezer, "Historical Consciousness, Haskalah, and Nationalism Among the Karaites of Eastern Europe" (Brill, 2017)
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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Alan Verskin, "Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni Through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Jason Olson and James Goldberg, "The Burning Book" (Common Consent Press, 2022)
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Rowan Dorin, "No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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Rachel Adelman, "The Female Ruse: Women's Deception and Divine Sanction in the Hebrew Bible" (Sheffield Press, 2017)
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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Michah Gottlieb, "The Jewish Reformation: Bible Translation and Middle-Class German Judaism As Spiritual Enterprise" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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M. M. Silver, "The History of Galilee, 1538-1949" (Lexington Books, 2022)
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Geneviève Zubrzycki, "Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Mikel Burley, "A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Meir M. Bar-Asher, "Jews and the Qur'an" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Arthur Keefer, "Ecclesiastes and the Meaning of Life in the Ancient World" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Chris Webb, "The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance" (Ibidem, 2016)
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Andrea Dara Cooper, "Gendering Modern Jewish Thought" (Indiana UP, 2021)
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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The Mesopotamian Connection: Comparing the Bible to Other Literature of the Ancient Near East
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Mark A. Schneegurt, "Anthology of Religious Poetry from the Mexican Inquisition Trials of 16th-Century CryptoJews" (2020)
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Apocalypse Past, Present, and Future: Thinking about the End in History and Culture
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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Menachem Brod, "In Search of Truth: Three Yeshiva Students on a Spiritual Journey" (BSD Publishers, 2022)
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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Radu Ioanid, "The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Roma Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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Igor H. De Souza, "Rewriting Maimonides: Early Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed" (de Gruyter, 2018)
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Frank Wolff, "Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration: The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund" (Haymarket Books, 2021)
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Silvia Nacamulli, "Jewish Flavours of Italy: A Family Cookbook" (Green Bean Books, 2022)
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Progressive Souls: Religion and the Pursuit of a Just Society (Part 2)
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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Progressive Souls: Religion and the Pursuit of a Just Society (Part 1)
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Nothing Matters: About the Idea of "Emptiness"
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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James M. Deem, "The Prisoners of Breendonk: Personal Histories from a World War II Concentration Camp" (Mariner Books, 2020)
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Elia Meghnagi, "Escape from Benghazi: Diary of an Imposter" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2022)
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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Donna Stein, "Archaeology of Metaphor: The Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch" (Skira, 2022)
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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Mordechai Schiffman, "Psyched for Torah" (Kodesh Press, 2022)
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Wout J. van Bekkum, "The Religious Poetry of El'azar Ben Ya'aqov Ha-Bavli (Baghdad, 13th C.)" (Brill, 2022)
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Sarah Imhoff, "The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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David Z. Moster, "Etrog: How A Chinese Fruit Became a Jewish Symbol" (Palgrave Pivot, 2018)
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Gil Hovav, "Candies from Heaven" (Green Bean Books, 2023)
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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Joshua Kulp and Jason Rogoff, "Reconstructing the Talmud: An Introduction to the Academic Study of Rabbinic Literature" (Hadar Press, 2014)
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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Melila Hellner-Eshed, "Seekers of the Face: Secrets of the Idra Rabba (the Great Assembly) of the Zohar" (Stanford UP. 2021)
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Aaron W. Hughes, "Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast" (NYU Press, 2016)
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Nomads in the Bible
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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Julia Elsky, "Writing Occupation: Jewish Émigré Voices in Wartime France" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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Who Wrote the Bible? Sorting out the History of the Bible We Have.
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Hélène Jawhara Piñer, "Jews, Food, and Spain: The Oldest Medieval Spanish Cookbook and the Sephardic Culinary Heritage" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Ron Kronish, "Profiles in Peace: Voices of Peacebuilders in the Midst of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" (2022)
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Ruth Tsoffar, "Life in Citations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture" (Routledge, 2019)
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Tzafrir Barzilay, "Poisoned Wells: Accusations, Persecution, and Minorities in Medieval Europe, 1321-1422" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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Kenneth B. Moss, "An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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Ariana Huberman. "Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Karma Ben-Johanan, "Jacob’s Younger Brother: Christian-Jewish Relations after Vatican II" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Zvi Preigerzon, "Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2022)
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Richard Brian Miller, "Why Study Religion?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Kiril Feferman, "The Holocaust in the Crimea and the North Caucasus" (Yad Vashem, 2016)
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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Beverley Chalmers, "Betrayed: Child Sex Abuse in the Holocaust" (Grosvenor House, 2020)
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Daniel Gross. "A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire" (Radius Book Group, 2022)
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Marla Segol, "Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Joanna Newman, "Nearly the New World: The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945" (Berghahn Books, 2019)
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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On "Genesis"
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Jay Michaelson, "The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, "Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934-1950" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Yochai Ataria, "Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik: The Map and the Territory" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Gabriel Polley, "Palestine in the Victorian Age: Colonial Encounters in the Holy Land" (I. B. Tauris, 2022)
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Shaul Bartal and Nesya Rubinstein-Shemer, "Hamas and Ideology: Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qara?awi on the Jews, Zionism and Israel" (Routledge, 2017)
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon Books, 2022)
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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James Yansen, "Daughter Zion's Trauma: A Trauma Informed Reading of Lamentations" (Gorgias Press, 2019)
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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The Future of Religious Studies: A Conversation with Russell McCutcheon
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Jonathan Rosen and Henry Herz, "Coming of Age: 13 B'nai Mitvah Stories" (Albert Whitman & Company, 2022)
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Moshe Koppel, "Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures" (Maggid, 2020)
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Joseph McBride, "Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Eli Gumener, "A Ukrainian Chapter: A Jewish Aid Worker’s Memoir Of Sorrow" (Slavica, 2022)
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Books, Antisemitism, and a Viral Tweet: A Conversation with Library Director Susan Kusel
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Boruch Twersky, "From Moav to Mashiach" (Menucha Publishers, 2022)
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Samuel J. Levine, "Was Yosef on the Spectrum?: Understanding Joseph Through Torah, Midrash, and Classical Jewish Sources" (Urim Publications, 2018)
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Michael Frank, "One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Francesca Stavrakopoulou, "God: An Anatomy" (Knopf, 2022)
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Ephraim (Alexander) Kholmyansky, "The Voice of Silence: The Story of the Jewish Underground in the USSR" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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J. Richard Middleton, "Abraham's Silence: The Binding of Isaac, the Suffering of Job, and How to Talk Back to God" (Baker Academic, 2021)
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Sarah Ifft Decker, "The Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women's Work in Medieval Catalan Cities" (Pennsylvania State, 2022)
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Alan Verskin, "A Vision of Yemen: The Travels of a European Orientalist and His Native Guide--a Translation of Hayyim Habshush's Travelogue" (Stanford UP, 2019)
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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John Jeffries Martin, "A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Rachel Aumiller, "A Touch of Doubt: On Haptic Scepticism" (de Gruyter, 2021)
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Rachel Schreiber, "Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration" (Temple UP, 2021)
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Sustainable Agriculture in the Global South: A Religious Response to the Global Food Crisis
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Ela Gezen et al., "Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990" (Berghahn Books, 2022)
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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David Weinfeld, "An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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P. De Vries, "The Kābôd of Yhwh in the Old Testament: With Particular Reference to the Book of Ezekiel" (Brill, 2015)
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Eran Kaplan, "Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Angela Costley, "Creation and Christ: An Exploration of the Topic of Creation in the Epistle to the Hebrews" (Mohr Siebeck, 2021)
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Warren Klein et al., "Be Fruitful! The Etrog in Jewish Art, Culture, and History" (Mineged, 2022)
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Ion Popa, "The Romanian Orthodox Church and the Holocaust" (Indiana UP, 2017)
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Aviva Ben-Ur, "Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651-1825" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Reeva Spector Simon, "The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa: The Impact of World War II" (Routledge, 2019)
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Andreas Hackl, "The Invisible Palestinians: The Hidden Struggle for Inclusion in Jewish Tel Aviv" (Indiana UP, 2022)
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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NBN Classic: Paul Hanebrink, "A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism" (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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NBN Classic: Marc Dollinger, "Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s" (Brandeis UP, 2018)
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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NBN Classic: Alexander Gendler, "Khurbm 1914-1922: Prelude to the Holocaust" (Varda Books, 2019)
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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NBN Classic: Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, "Holiness and Transgression Mothers of the Messiah in the Jewish Myth" (ASP, 2017)
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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Frederick Beiser, "Hermann Cohen: An Intellectual Biography" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Dario Miccoli, "A Sephardi Sea: Jewish Memories Across the Modern Mediterranean" (Indiana UP, 2022)
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Sara Ronis, "Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia" (U California Press, 2022)
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Corinne E. Blackmer, "Queering Anti-Zionism: Academic Freedom, LGBTQ Intellectuals, and Israel/Palestine Campus Activism" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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David Bashevkin, "Sin•a•gogue: Sin and Failure in Jewish Thought (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Sasha Senderovich, "How the Soviet Jew Was Made" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Tamar Biala, "Dirshuni: Contemporary Women's Midrash" (Brandeis UP, 2022)
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Kimberley Czajkowski and Benedikt Eckhardt, "Herod in History: Nicolaus of Damascus and the Augustan Context" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Book Talk 55: Courtney B. Hodrick and Amir Eshel on Hannah Arendt's "Rachel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman"
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Seth M. Ehorn, "Exodus in the New Testament" (T&T Clark, 2022)
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Tilde Rosmer, "The Islamic Movement in Israel" (U Texas Press, 2022)
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Michael Engel, "Elijah Del Medigo and Paduan Aristotelianism: Investigating the Human Intellect" (Bloomsbury, 2016)
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Manuel Duarte de Oliveira, "Humanity Divided: Martin Buber and the Challenges of Being Chosen" (de Gruyter, 2021)
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Matthew Teller, "Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City" (Other Press, 2022)
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Ben Ackerman, "Open When You Are: A Mystical Novel" (2016)
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Matti Friedman, "Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai" (Spiegel & Grau, 2022)
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Emily Michelson, "Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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On Jewish Sexual Ethics
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Philip Hollander, "From Schlemiel to Sabra: Zionist Masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew Literature" (Indiana UP, 2019)
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Yael Halevi-Wise, "The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua" (Penn State UP, 2020)
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Stu Halpern, "Esther in America" (Maggid, 2020)
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Matthew Mark Silver, "The History of Galilee, 47 BCE to 1260 CE: From Josephus and Jesus to the Crusades" (Lexington Books, 2021)
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Aug 13, 2022 |
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On Sholem Aleichem’s "The Tevye Stories"
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Alexander Green, "Power and Progress: Joseph Ibn Kaspi and the Meaning of History" (SUNY Press, 2019)
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Ari D. Kahn, "The Crowns on the Letters: Essays on the Aggada and the Lives of the Sages" (OU Press, 2020)
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Jason A. Staples, "The Idea of 'Israel' in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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On Thomas of Monmouth's "The Life and Passion of William of Norwich"
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Wayne Allen, "Thinking about Good and Evil: Jewish Views from Antiquity to Modernity" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler, "The Bible with and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently" (HarperOne, 2020)
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Yonatan Neril and Leo Dee, "Eco Bible: An Ecological Commentary on Genesis and Exodus" (ICSD, 2021)
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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David Konstan, "The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Culturally Competent Health Care, Equality in Health Care: The Case of Muslims and Jews in the UK
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Hanan Hammad, "Unknown Past: Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Tova Ganzel, "Ezekiel's Visionary Temple in Babylonian Context" (de Gruyter, 2021)
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Giore Etzion, "The Routledge Introductory Course in Modern Hebrew" (Routledge, 2019)
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Elliott Rabin, "The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility" (Jewish Publication Society, 2020)
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Francine Friedman, "Like Salt for Bread: The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina" (Brill, 2021)
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Beverley Chalmers, "Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women's Voices Under Nazi Rule" (Grosvenor House, 2015)
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Evan Berry, "Climate Politics and the Power of Religion" (Indiana UP, 2022)
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Yehudah Mirsky, "Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity: The Making of Rav Kook, 1865-1904" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Tova Ganzel, "Ezekiel: From Destruction to Restoration" (Maggid, 2020)
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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John F. Sears, "Refuge Must Be Given: Eleanor Roosevelt, the Jewish Plight, and the Founding of Israel" (Purdue UP, 2021)
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Matt Reingold, "Reenvisioning Israel Through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018-2021 Electoral Crisis" (Lexington, 2022)
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Robin Dunbar, "How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Vered Noam, "Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans: Second Temple Legends and Their Reception in Josephus and Rabbinic Literature" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Yehudah Mirsky, "Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution" (Yale UP, 2014)
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Christopher Silver, "Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Archie T. Wright, "Satan and the Problem of Evil: From the Bible to the Early Church Fathers" (Fortress Press, 2022)
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Matthew Teller, "Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City" (Other Press/Profile Books, 2022)
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Marc David Baer, "German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Nathan A. Kurz, "Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Jerry Z. Muller, "Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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W. H. Bellinger Jr., "Introducing Old Testament Theology" (Baker Academic, 2021)
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Menachem Kaiser, "Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure" (Mariner Books, 2021)
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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The Future of Religion: A Conversation with Robin Dunbar
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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David de Jong, "Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties" (Mariner Books, 2022)
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Paul Lerner et al., "Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Denisa Nesťáková and Katja Grosse-Sommer, "If This Is a Woman: Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Guy MacLean Rogers, "For the Freedom of Zion: The Great Revolt of Jews against Romans, 66-74 CE" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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On the Myth of Divine Chosenness
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Dainy Bernstein, "Artifacts of Orthodox Jewish Childhoods" (Ben Yehuda Press, 2022)
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Olga Bertelsen, "In the Labyrinth of the KGB: Ukraine's Intelligentsia in the 1960s-1970s" (Lexington Books, 2022)
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Matthew Mark Silver, "Zionism and the Melting Pot: Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Nehemia Polen, "Stop, Look, Listen: Celebrating Shabbos Through a Spiritual Lens" (Koren, 2022)
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Mark A. Raider and Gary Phillip Zola, "New Perspectives in American Jewish History: A Documentary Tribute to Jonathan D. Sarna" (Brandeis UP, 2021)
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Jeffrey Herf, "Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Jason Sion Mokhtarian, "Medicine in the Talmud: Natural and Supernatural Therapies Between Magic and Science" (U California Press, 2022)
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Richard G. Marks, "Jewish Approaches to Hinduism: A History of Ideas from Judah Ha-Levi to Jacob Sapir (12th-19th Centuries)" (Routledge, 2021)
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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John K. Roth and Carol Rittner, "The Memory of Goodness: Eva Fleischner and Her Contributions to Holocaust Studies" (NCCHE, 2022)
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Chiara Camarda et al., "The Venice Ghetto: A Memory Space That Travels" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
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May 27, 2022 |
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Maksim Goldenshteyn, "So They Remember: A Jewish Family's Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
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May 26, 2022 |
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Yechiel Weizman, "Unsettled Heritage: Living Next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces After the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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May 26, 2022 |
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K. Friedla and M. Nesselrodt, "Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939-1959): History and Memory of Deportation, Exile, and Survival" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
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May 25, 2022 |
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Howard Mortman, "When Rabbis Bless Congress: The Great American Story of Jewish Prayers on Capitol Hill" (Cherry Orchard, 2020)
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May 25, 2022 |
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Daniel C. Matt, "Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation" (Yale UP, 2022)
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May 24, 2022 |
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Peter Kreeft, "Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs" (Ignatius Press, 2016)
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May 20, 2022 |
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Maria Chiara Rioli, "A Liminal Church: Refugees, Conversions and the Latin Diocese of Jerusalem, 1946–1956" (Brill, 2020)
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May 13, 2022 |
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Louis Fishman, "Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 1908-1914: Claiming the Homeland" (Edinburgh UP. 2021)
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May 10, 2022 |
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Jaclyn Granick, "International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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May 06, 2022 |
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Christine Leuenberger and Izhak Schnell, "The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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May 04, 2022 |
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Moshe Shokeid, "Can Academics Change the World?: An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus" (Berghahn, 2020)
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May 03, 2022 |
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Sebastian Huebel, "Fighter, Worker, and Family Man: German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933-1941" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
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May 02, 2022 |
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Steve A. Wiggins, "Nightmares with the Bible: The Good Book and Cinematic Demons" (Fortress, 2020)
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Tomer Persico, "In God’s Image: The Making of the Modern World" (Yediot Aharonot, 2021)
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Yiddish in Europe
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Charles Dellheim, "Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern" (Brandeis UP, 2021)
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Sigal Naor Perelman, "Machluta" (Pardes, 2020)
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Jeffrey Saks and Shalom Carmy, "Agnon’s Tales of the Land of Israel" (Pickwick Publications, 2021)
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Michael Carasik, "The Commentators' Bible: The Rubin JPS Miqra'ot Gedolot" (Jewish Publication Society, 2018)
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Anthony Shaw and Giora Goodman, "Hollywood and Israel: A History" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers, "American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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On Leaving Hasidism
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Andrew Lawler, "Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City" (Doubleday, 2021)
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Elisheva Carlebach and Deborah Dash Moore, "The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization (6): Confronting Modernity, 1750-1880" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Ken Krimstein, "When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Martin Shuster, "How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism" (Indiana UP, 2021)
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Dan Grunfeld, "By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and an Unprecedented American Dream" (Triumph Books, 2022)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Helene Meyers, "Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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Brett Kahr, "Freud's Pandemics: Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis" (Confer Books, 2022)
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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Jeffery D. Long and Michael G. Long, "Nonviolence in the World's Religions: A Concise Introduction" (Routledge, 2021)
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Racheli Haliva, "Isaac Polqar: A Jewish Philosopher or a Philosopher and a Jew? (Walter de Gruyter, 2020)
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Jadwiga Biskupska, "Survivors: Warsaw under Nazi Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Konrad Schmid and Jens Schröter, "The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Brian Ogren, "Kabbalah and the Founding of America: The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World" (NYU Press, 2021)
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Gardner Thompson, "Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel" (Saqi, 2020)
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Kei Hiruta, "Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Silvia Goldbaum Tarabini Fracapane, "The Jews of Denmark in the Holocaust: Life and Death in Theresienstadt Ghetto" (Routledge, 2020)
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Joanna Sliwa, "Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Erica Brown, "Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile" (Maggid, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Allison Schachter, "Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919–1939" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Jon Butler, "God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Haim Jachter, "Bridging Traditions: Demystifying Differences Between Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews" (Maggid, 2022)
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Exploring Autonomy: A History of Jewish Self-Governance in Eastern Europe
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Catherine Ehrlich, "Irma's Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage" (She Writes Press, 2021)
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Markus Zehnder, "The Bible and Immigration: A Critical and Empirical Reassessment" (Pickwick Publications, 2021)
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Michael Marmur and David Ellenson, "American Jewish Thought Since 1934: Writings on Identity, Engagement, and Belief" (Brandeis UP, 2020)
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Manoela Carpenedo, "Becoming Jewish, Believing in Jesus: Judaizing Evangelicals in Brazil" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Federica Francesconi, "Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Yakov Nagen, "Be, Become, Bless: Jewish Spirituality Between East and West" (Maggid, 2019)
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Patrick Hicks, "In the Shadow of Dora: A Novel of the Holocaust and the Apollo Program" (Stephen F. Austin UP, 2020)
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Ola Hnatiuk, "Courage and Fear" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2019)
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Susan Gilson Miller, "Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Rich Brownstein, "Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide" (McFarland, 2021)
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers, "American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Mir Yarfitz, "Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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The 15 Best Films about the Holocaust
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Andrew Porwancher, "The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Samuel J. Spinner, "Jewish Primitivism" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Karen Rostoger-Gruber, "The Family (and Frog! ) Haggadah" (Behrman House, 2017)
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Jason Lustig, "A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Yakir Englander, "The Male Body in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Theology" (Pickwick Publications, 2021)
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Marc Caplan, "Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism" (Indiana UP, 2021)
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Anat Plocker, "The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland: Memory Wars and Homeland Anxieties" (Indiana UP, 2022)
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Gideon Sapir and Daniel Statman, "State and Religion in Israel: A Philosophical-Legal Inquiry" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Melissa Stoller, "Sadie’s Shabbat Stories" (Spork, 2020)
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Stephanie M. Pridgeon, "Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Noam Sachs Zion, "Sanctified Sex: The Two-Thousand-Year Jewish Debate on Marital Intimacy" (Jewish Publication Society, 2021)
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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Rich Brownstein, "Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide" (McFarland, 2021)
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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Ann Koffsky, "Kayla and Kugel's Happy Hanhukkah" (Apples and Honey Press, 2020)
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Beate Kowalski and Susan E. Docherty, "The Reception of Exodus Motifs in Jewish and Christian Literature: "Let My People Go!" (Brill, 2021)
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Marcia Pally, "From This Broken Hill I Sing to You: God, Sex, and Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Julian E. Zelizer, "Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Izabela Wagner, "Bauman: A Biography" (Polity, 2020)
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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"Bambi" isn't about what you think it's about: Jack Zipes explains
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Jonathan Sacks, "The Koren Standard Tanakh Maalot" (Koren, 2021)
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Menachem Kellner, "We Are Not Alone: A Maimonidean Theology of the Other" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Sonia Gollance, "It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Noah Isenberg ed., Shelley Frisch, trans., "Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Rani Jaeger, "Abraham the Hebrew Believer: Secularism and Religion in the Work of Avraham Shlonsky (1900-1973)"
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Hadassah Lieberman, "Hadassah: An American Story" (Brandeis UP, 2021)
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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Annegret Oehme, "The Knight Without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations" (Brill, 2021)
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Grant T. Harward, "Romania's Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Dana Mack, "All Things That Deserve to Perish: A Novel of Wilhelmine Germany" (2020)
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Matthew Levering, "Engaging the Doctrine of Israel: A Christian Israelology in Dialogue with Ongoing Judaism" (Cascade Books, 2021)
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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David Barak-Gorodetsky, "Judah Magnes: The Prophetic Politics of a Religious Binationalist" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Anders Persson, "EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Daniel C. Matt, "The Zohar" (Stanford UP, 2018)
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Yair Wallach, "A City in Fragments: Urban Texts in Modern Jerusalem" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Andrea Gondos, "Kabbalah in Print: The Study and Popularization of Jewish Mysticism in Early Modernity" (SUNY Press, 2020)
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Amy Sodaro, "Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Aubrey L. Glazer, "Mystical Vertigo: Contemporary Kabbalistic Hebrew Poetry Dancing Over the Divide" (Academic Studies Press, 2013)
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Jan Rybak, "Everyday Zionism in East-Central Europe: Nation-Building in War and Revolution, 1914-1920" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Jason Gile, "Ezekiel and the World of Deuteronomy" (T&T Clark, 2021)
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Meni Even-Israel, "The Steinsaltz Tanya V3: Sha'ar Hayihud Veha'emuna and Iggeret Hateshuva" (Maggid, 2021)
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Caroline A. Kita, "Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna: Composing Compassion in Music and Biblical Theater" (Indiana UP, 2019)
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Roy Schwartz, "Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero" (McFarland, 2021)
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Ethan Kleinberg, "Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper, "A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Dov Zakheim, "The Prince and the Emperors: The Life and Times of Rabbi Judah the Prince" (Maggid, 2021)
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Eliyana R. Adler, "Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Mikhael Manekin, "The Dawn of Redemption: Ethics and Tradition in a Time of Power" (Evrit, 2021)
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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Yakov Nagen, "The Soul of the Mishna" (Maggid, 2021)
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Jeffrey Veidlinger, "In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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John-Paul Himka, "Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust: OUN and UPA's Participation in the Destruction of Ukrainian Jewry, 1941-1944" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Shay Hazkani, "Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Michael Geheran, "Comrades Betrayed: Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler" (Cornell UP, 2020)
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Kristin Swenson, "A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Rachel Rojanski, "Yiddish in Israel: A History" (Indiana UP, 2020)
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Emmanuel Navon, "The Star and the Scepter: A Diplomatic History of Israel" (Jewish Publication Society, 2020)
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Shlomit Naim Naor, "The Things We Are Not Talking About" (2020)
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Ori Yehudai, "Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Sarah Bunin Benor et al., "Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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A. J. Culp, "Memoir of Moses: The Literary Creation of Covenantal Memory in Deuteronomy" (Fortress, 2019)
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Danny Adeno Abebe, "From Africa To Zion" (Miskal, 2021)
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Hélène Jawhara Piñer, "Sephardi: Cooking the History. Recipes of the Jews of Spain and the Diaspora, from the 13th Century Onwards" (Cherry Orchard, 2021)
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz. "The Essential Talmud" (Maggid, 2010)
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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David J. Goldberg, “Rabbi With A Cause: Israel and Identity” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Naphtaly Shem-Tov, "Israeli Theatre: Mizrahi Jews and Self-Representation" (Routledge, 2021)
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Stanley Mirvis, "The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica" (Yale UP, 2020)
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Ilana Maymind, "Exile and Otherness: The Ethics of Shinran and Maimonides" (Lexington Books, 2020)
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Eliza Ablovatski, "Revolution and Political Violence in Central Europe: The Deluge of 1919" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Daniel A. Klein (trans.), "Shadal on Leviticus" (Kodesh Press, 2020)
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Mika Ahuvia, "On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture" (U California Press, 2021)
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Elizabeth Anthony, "The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews After the Holocaust" (Wayne State UP, 2021)
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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Leonard J. Greenspoon, "Olam Ha-zeh V'olam Ha-ba: This World and the World to Come in Jewish Belief and Practice" (Purdue UP, 2017)
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Robin Derricourt, "Creating God: The Birth and Growth of Major Religions" ( Manchester UP, 2021)
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Moshe Halbertal, "Nahmanides: Law and Mysticism" (Yale UP, 2020)
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Paul Mendes-Flohr, "Cultural Disjunctions: Post-Traditional Jewish Identities" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Under the Arch of Titus: A Gateway to the Jewish Community
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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David Arnovitz, "Samuel: The Making of the Monarchy, Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel" (Koren Publishers, 2021)
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Yael Ziegler, "Lamentations: Faith in a Turbulent World" (Koren Publishers, 2021)
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Leonard Greenspoon, "Jewish Bible Translations: Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress" (Jewish Publication Society, 2020)
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel, "Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews" (North Atlantic Books, 2021)
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Michael Fishbane, "Fragile Finitude: A Jewish Hermeneutical Theology" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, "Talks on the Parasha" (Maggid, 2015)
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Ruth Mazo Karras, "Thou Art the Man: The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Assaf Shelleg, "Theological Stains: Art Music and the Zionist Project" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Sina Kahen, "Ideas: Bereshit" (2020)
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Mariusz Kalczewiak, "Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture" (U Alabama Press, 2019)
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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Isaac W. Oliver, "Luke's Jewish Eschatology: The National Restoration of Israel in Luke-Acts" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Edward B. Westermann, "Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Hugh McLeod and Todd Weir, "Defending the Faith: Global Histories of Apologetics and Politics in the Twentieth Century" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Natalia Aleksiun, "Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust" (Littman Library, 2021)
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May 31, 2021 |
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Katarzyna Person, "Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service During the Nazi Occupation" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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May 28, 2021 |
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Zev Eleff, "Authentically Orthodox: A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life" (Wayne State UP, 2020)
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May 27, 2021 |
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Devi Mays, "Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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May 26, 2021 |
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A Conversation with Jessica Kirzane about Yiddish Studies
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May 20, 2021 |
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Harry Freedman, "Reason to Believe: The Controversial Life of Rabbi Louis Jacobs" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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May 17, 2021 |
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Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, "The Erez Concise Guide Series" (Koren, 2021)
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May 17, 2021 |
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Leon R. Kass, "Founding God’s Nation: Reading Exodus" (Yale UP, 2021)
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May 17, 2021 |
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Robert D. Miller II, "Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)
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May 13, 2021 |
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Mira Sucharov, "Borders and Belonging: A Memoir" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
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May 11, 2021 |
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Amelia M. Glaser, "Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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May 05, 2021 |
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Lila Corwin Berman, "The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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May 05, 2021 |
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Adam Hochschild, "Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020)
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May 04, 2021 |
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Svenja Bethke, "Dance on the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Daniel Herskowitz, "Heidegger and His Jewish Reception" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Thomas Robinson and Hillary Rodrigues, "World Religions Reader: Understanding Our Religious World" (ROBINEST, 2020)
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Massoud Hayoun, "When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History" (New Press, 2019)
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Rachel B. Gross, "Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice" (NYU Press, 2021)
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Sheila E. Jelen, "Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies" (Wayne State UP, 2020
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Cedric Cohen-Skalli, "Don Isaac Abravanel: An Intellectual Biography" (Brandeis UP, 2020)
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Dina Porat, "Vengeance and Retribution Are Mine: Community, the Holocaust, and Abba Kovner's Avengers" (Pardes, 2019)
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Roundtable on Medieval Conspiracy Theories
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Jeffrey Shandler, "Yiddish: Biography of a Language" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Joshua Cole, "Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Jennifer Anne Moses, "The Man Who Loved His Wife" (Mayapple Press, 2021)
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Richard Kalmin, "Migrating Tales: The Talmud's Narratives and Their Historical Context" (U California Press, 2014)
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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Miriam Udel, "Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children's Literature" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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David Stavrou, "Leaving Zion: The Israeli Diaspora in Europe" (Pardes, 2019)
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Rachel S. Mikva, "Dangerous Religious Ideas: The Deep Roots of Self-Critical Faith in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam" (Beacon, 2020)
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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I. Stavans and J. Lambert, "How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish" (Restless Books, 2020)
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Naomi Seidman, "Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition" (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2019)
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Hannah Hahn, "They Left It All Behind: Trauma, Loss, and Memory Among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and their Children" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Dina Danon, "The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Max Gross, "The Lost Shtetl" (HarperCollins, 2020)
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Charles Hirschkind, "The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Gennady Estraikh, "Transatlantic Russian Jewishness: Ideological Voyages of the Yiddish Daily Forverts in the First Half of the Twentieth Century" (ASP, 2020)
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Sarit Kattan Gribetz, "Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Kathryn Ciancia, "On Civilization's Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann, "Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Michael E. Pregill, "The Golden Calf Between Bible and Qur'an: Scripture, Polemic, and Exegesis from Late Antiquity to Islam" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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David Nasaw, "The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War" (Penguin, 2020)
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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L. Hilton and A. Patt, "Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Anne Goldman, "Stargazing in the Atomic Age" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Carol Rittner and John K. Roth, "Advancing Holocaust Studies" (Routledge, 2020)
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Roy E. Gane, "Exploring the Composition of the Pentateuch" (Eisenbrauns, 2020)
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Marina Rustow, "The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Adina Hoffman, "Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City" (FSG, 2017)
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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Shaul Magid, "Piety and Rebellion: Essays in Hasidism" (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Anna Hájková, "The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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Michal S. Raucher, "Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority Among Haredi Women" (Indiana UP, 2020)
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Douglas Morris, "Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Jonathan Boyarin, "Yeshiva Days: Learning on the Lower East Side" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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John K. Roth, "The Failures of Ethics: Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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M. Wodziński and W. Spallek, "Historical Atlas of Hasidism" (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Julius Margolin, "Journey Into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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V. Nesfield and P. Smith, "The Struggle for Understanding: Elie Wiesel's Literary Works" (SUNY Press, 2019)
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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N. Chare and D. Williams, "Testimonies of Resistance: Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando" (Berghahn Books, 2019)
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Rachel Manekin, "The Rebellion of the Daughters: Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Bernice Lerner, "All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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Karen Taliaferro, "The Possibility of Religious Freedom: Early Natural Law and the Abrahamic Faiths" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Jewish Architecture: A Stage for Jewish Liturgy
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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R. Rosenberg and R. Rubinstein, "Teaching Jewish American Literature" (MLA, 2020)
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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Jeremy Black, "The Holocaust: History and Memory" (Indiana UP, 2016)
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Alan Brill, " Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish-Hindu Encounter" (Lexington, 2019)
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Alan L. Mittleman, "Does Judaism Condone Violence?: Holiness and Ethics in the Jewish Tradition" (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Kenneth Austin, "The Jews and the Reformation" (Yale UP, 2020)
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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Karen E. H. Skinazi, "Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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Matthew Thiessen, "Jesus and the Forces of Death" (Baker Academic, 2020)
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Aaron Koller, "Unbinding Isaac: The Significance of the Akedah for Modern Jewish Thought" (Jewish Publication Society, 2020)
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Ezra Cappell and Jessica Lang, "Off the Derech: Leaving Orthodox Judaism" (SUNY Press, 2020)
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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Alexander Kaye, "The Invention of Jewish Theocracy: The Struggle for Legal Authority in Modern Israel" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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T. P. Kaplan and W. Gruner, "Resisting Persecution: Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust" (Berghahn, 2020)
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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Assaf Gavron, "The Hilltop" (Scribner, 2015)
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Yehoshua November, "Two Worlds Exist" (Orison Books, 2016)
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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Tamar Herzig, "A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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John Barton, "A History of the Bible: The Story of the World's Most Influential Book" (Viking, 2019)
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Rafael Medoff, "The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust" (JPS, 2019)
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Adam Teller, "Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the 17th Century" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Natan M. Meir, "Stepchildren of the Shtetl" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Marion Kaplan, "Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal" (Yale UP, 2020)
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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Alice Connor, "Fierce: Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation" (Fortress, 2017)
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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Richard Breitman, "The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies"(Oxford Academic/USHMM)
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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Paula Fredriksen, "When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation" (Yale UP, 2018)
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 8: A Very Difficult Man to Kill
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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Shneur Zalman Newfield, "Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism" (Temple UP, 2020)
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Adam Brown, "Judging 'Privileged' Jews: Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone'" (Berghahn, 2015)
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Yitzhak Lewis, "Permanent Beginning: R. Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity" (SUNY Press, 2020)
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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Mara Benjamin, "The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought" (Indiana UP, 2018)
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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Gabriel Finder, "Justice behind the Iron Curtain: Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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David Slucki et al., "Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust" (Wayne State UP, 2020)
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 2: Value Theory
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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John K. Roth, "Sources of Holocaust Insight: Learning and Teaching about the Genocide" (Cascade Books, 2020)
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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James A. Diamond, "Jewish Theology Unbound" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Deborah Dash Moore, "Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a People" (NYU Press, 2017)
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Pamela S. Nadell, "America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today" (Norton, 2019)
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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Vanessa Cook, "Spiritual Socialists: Religion and the American Left" (U Penn Press, 2019)
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May 27, 2020 |
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Björn Krondorfer, "The Holocaust and Masculinities: Critical Inquiries into the Presence and Absence of Men" (SUNY Press, 2020)
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May 26, 2020 |
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Elissa Bemporad, "Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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May 26, 2020 |
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Yaacov Yadgar, "Israel’s Jewish Identity Crisis: State and Politics in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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May 21, 2020 |
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Derek Penslar, "Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader" (Yale UP, 2020)
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May 19, 2020 |
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Brendan McGeever, "Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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May 15, 2020 |
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Ayala Fader, "Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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May 05, 2020 |
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Magda Teter, "Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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Maddalena Marinari, "Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882–1965" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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Great Books: Amir Eshel on Paul Celan's Poetry
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Michael Fischbach, "The Movement and the Middle East: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left" (Stanford UP, 2019)
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Michael Daise, "Quotations in John: Studies on Jewish Scripture in the Fourth Gospel" (T and T Clark, 2020)
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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Nancy Sinkoff, "From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History" (Wayne State UP, 2020)
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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Great Books: Hillary Chute on Art Spiegelman's "Maus"
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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Steven Ross and Wolf Gruner, "New Perspectives on Krystallnacht" (Purdue UP, 2019)
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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Sarah Abrevaya Stein, "A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019)
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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Jaap Doedens, "The Sons of God in Genesis 6:1-4: Analysis and History of Exegesis" (Brill, 2019)
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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L. Benjamin Rolsky, "The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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Randal Schnoor, "Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home" (Indiana UP, 2018)
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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Nicholas Blincoe, "More Noble Than War: A Soccer History of Israel-Palestine" (Bold Type Books, 2019)
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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Ayelet Hoffmann Libson, "Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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Bari Weiss, "How to Fight Anti-Semitism" (Crown, 2019)
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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Alex J. Kay and David Stahel, "Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe" (Indiana UP, 2018)
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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Peter Bergamin, "The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology” (I. B. Tauris, 2019)
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Wulf Gruner, "The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia: Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses" (Berghahn Books, 2019)
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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Emily Colbert Cairns, "Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora: Queen of the Conversas" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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Jennifer Cazenave, "An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah" (SUNY Press, 2019)
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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Lori Gemeiner-Bihler, "Cities of Refuge: German Jews in London and New York, 1935-1945" (SUNY Press, 2019)
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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Benjamin Balint, "Jerusalem: City of the Book" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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Sarah Wobick-Segev, "Homes Away from Home: Jewish Belonging in 20th-Century Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg" (Stanford UP, 2018)
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Jan 09, 2020 |
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Yaacob Dweck, "Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Jan 08, 2020 |
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David N. Gottlieb, "Second Slayings: The Binding of Isaac and the Formation of Jewish Cultural Memory" (Gorgias Press, 2019)
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Jan 02, 2020 |
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Joyce Dalsheim, "Israel Has a Jewish Problem: Self Determination as Self Elimination" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jan 02, 2020 |
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Nora Gold, "The Dead Man" (Inanna Publications, 2016)
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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Ian J. Vaillancourt, "The Multifaceted Saviour of Psalms 110 and 118" (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2019)
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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Julia Neuberger, "Antisemitism: What It Is, What It Isn’t, Why It Matters" (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2019)
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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Jelena Subotić, "Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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Lyn Julius, "Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018)
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Lior Sternfeld, "Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran" (Stanford UP, 2019)
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Claudia Moscovici, "Holocaust Memories: A Survey of Holocaust Memoirs, Histories, Novels, and Films" (Hamilton, 2019)
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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C. Browning, P. Hayes, R. Hilberg, "German Railroads, Jewish Souls" (Berghahn Books, 2019)
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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Olga Zilberbourg, "Like Water and Other Stories" (WTAW Press, 2019)
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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Daniel Schwartz, "Ghetto: The History of a Word" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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David Hayton, "Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier" (Manchester UP, 2019)
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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Daniel Reynolds, "Postcards from Auschwitz: Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance" (NYU Press, 2018)
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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Carlo Bonomi, "The Cut and the Building of Psychoanalysis, Vol. I," (Routledge, 2017)
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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Samuel Goldman, "God’s Country: Christian Zionism in America" (U Penn Press, 2018)
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, "Teaching Empathy and Reconciliation In Midst Of Conflict" (Wasatia Press, 2016)
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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Yael Almog, "Secularism and Hermeneutics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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Jonathan Robker, "Balaam in Text and Tradition" (Mohr Siebeck, 2019)
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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Rachel Werczberger, "Jews In The Age Of Authenticity: Jewish Spiritual Renewal In Israel" (Peter Lang, 2016)
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Jonathan Sarna, "American Judaism: A History" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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Mark Roseman, "Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany" (Metropolitan Books, 2019)
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Sep 20, 2019 |
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Evdoxios Doxiadis, "State, Nationalism, and the Jewish Communities of Modern Greece" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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Jeffrey Saks, "Agnon Library of The Toby Press"
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Sep 06, 2019 |
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Evgeny Finkel, "Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust" (Princeton UP, 2017)
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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Shai Lavi, "Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel: Socio-legal, Political and Empirical Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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Lynn Kaye, "Time In The Babylonian Talmud: Natural and Imagined Times in Jewish Law and Narrative" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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Markus Zehnder, "New Studies in the Book of Isaiah: Essays in Honor of Hallvard Hagelia" (Gorgias Press, 2014)
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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David Slucki, "My Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons" (Wayne State UP, 2019)
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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Naftali Rothenberg, "Rabbi Akiva’s Philosophy of Love" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
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Jul 19, 2019 |
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Liat Steir-Livny, "Remaking Holocaust Memory: Documentary Cinema by Third Generation Survivors in Israel" (Syracuse UP, 2019)
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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Sophia Shalmiyev, "Mother Winter: A Memoir" (Simon and Schuster, 2019)
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Jul 10, 2019 |
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Miryam Sivan, "Make it Concrete" (Cuidono Press, 2019)
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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Lynn Downey, "Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World" (U Massachusetts Press, 2016)
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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Kirsten Fermaglich, "A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America" (NYU Press, 2018)
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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Matilda Rabinowitz, "Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century" (ILR Press, 2017)
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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Francesca Trivellato, "The Promise and Peril of Credit" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Jun 07, 2019 |
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Richard Averbeck, "Paradigm Change in Pentateuchal Research" (Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019)
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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Julie Zuckerman, "The Book of Jeremiah" (Press 53, 2019)
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May 27, 2019 |
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Jack Wertheimer, "The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice their Religion Today" (Princeton UP, 2018)
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May 06, 2019 |
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Adriana X. Jacobs, "Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry" (U Michigan Press, 2018)
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May 02, 2019 |
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Henning Pieper, "Fegelein’s Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare: The SS Cavalry Brigade in the Soviet Union" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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Vivi Lachs, "Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London, 1884-1914" (Wayne State UP, 2018)
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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Todd L. Patterson, "The Plot-structure of Genesis" (Brill, 2018)
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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Michael R. Cohen, "Cotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era" (NYU Press, 2017)
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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Pamela S. Nadell, "America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today" (Norton, 2019)
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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Paul K.-K. Cho, "Myth, History, and Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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Mickey and Dick Flacks, "Making History/Making Blintzes: How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
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Apr 10, 2019 |
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Brad Stoddard and Craig Martin, “Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés” (Bloomsbury, 2017)
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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Deborah E. Lipstadt, "Antisemitism: Here and Now" (Schocken, 2019)
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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Amit Pinchevski, "Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Mar 13, 2019 |
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Joyce Antler, "Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement" (NYU Press, 2018)
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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Daniel Unowsky, “The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia” (Stanford UP, 2018)
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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Samuel Hayim Brody, "Martin Buber's Theopolitics" (Indiana UP, 2018)
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Feb 18, 2019 |
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Kevin Ingram, "Converso Non-Conformism in Early Modern Spain: Bad Blood and Faith from Alonso de Cartagena to Diego Velázquez" (Palgrave, 2018)
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Feb 07, 2019 |
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Aimée Israel-Pelletier, "On the Mediterranean and the Nile: The Jews of Egypt" (Indiana UP, 2017)
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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Michael Brenner, “A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945: Politics, Culture, and Society” (Indiana UP, 2018)
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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M. L. Rozenblit and J. Karp, “World War I and the Jews: Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America” (Berghahn, 2017)
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Oct 30, 2018 |
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Naomi Seidman, “The Marriage Plot, Or, How Jews Fell In Love With Love, And With Literature” (Stanford UP, 2016)
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Oct 29, 2018 |
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Shannon Fogg, “Stealing Home: Looting, Restitution, and Reconstructing Jewish Lives in France, 1942-1947” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Oct 25, 2018 |
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David E. Fishman, “The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis” (ForeEdge, 2017)
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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Smadar Lavie, “Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture (Revised Edition)” (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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Raz Segal, “Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown and Mass Violence, 1914-1945” (Stanford UP, 2016)
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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Rachel Harris, “Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema” (Wayne State UP, 2017)
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Oct 10, 2018 |
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Adam D. Hensley, “Covenant Relationships and the Editing of the Hebrew Psalter” (T&T Clark, 2018)
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Sep 27, 2018 |
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Mary Fulbrook, “Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Sep 27, 2018 |
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Robert D. Miller II, “Covenant and Grace in the Old Testament: Assyrian Propaganda and Israelite Faith” (Gorgias Press, 2012)
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Sep 26, 2018 |
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Luis Cortest, “Philo’s Heirs: Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas” (Academic Studies Press, 2017)
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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Scott Spector, “Modernism Without Jews?: German Jewish Subjects and Histories” (Indiana UP, 2017)
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Sep 12, 2018 |
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Ludivine Broch, “Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust: French Railwaymen and the Second World War” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
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Sep 06, 2018 |
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Samira Mehta, “Beyond Chrismukkah: The Christian-Jewish Interfaith Family in the United States” (UNC Press, 2018)
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Aug 29, 2018 |
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Simon Levis Sullam, “The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy” (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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Olga Borovaya, “The Beginnings of Ladino Literature: Moses Almosnino and His Readers” (Indiana UP, 2017)
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Aug 24, 2018 |
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Eve Krakowski, “Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Women’s Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture” (Princeton UP, 2017)
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Aug 09, 2018 |
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Shachar M. Pinsker, “A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture” (NYU Press, 2018)
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Aug 06, 2018 |
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Eran Kaplan, “Beyond Post-Zionism” (SUNY Press, 2015)
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Jul 25, 2018 |
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Jay Geller, “Bestiarium Judaicum: Unnatural Histories of the Jews” (Fordham UP, 2017)
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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Mirjam Zadoff, “Werner Scholem: A German Life” (U Penn Press, 2018)
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Jul 23, 2018 |
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Eliyahu Stern, “Jewish Materialism: The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s” (Yale UP, 2018)
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Jul 18, 2018 |
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Robert D. Miller II, “The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations: An Old Testament Myth, Its Origins, and Its Afterlives” (Eisenbrauns, 2018)
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Jun 21, 2018 |
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Waitman Beorn, “The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
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Jun 20, 2018 |
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Yaron Peleg, “Directed by God: Jewishness in Contemporary Israeli Film and Television” (University of Texas Press, 2016)
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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Bruno Chaouat, “Is Theory Good for the Jews?: French Thought and the Challenge of the New Antisemitism” (Liverpool University Press, 2017)
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Jun 11, 2018 |
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Rebecca Erbelding, “Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe” (Doubleday, 2018)
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May 31, 2018 |
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Anika Walke, “Pioneers and Partisans: An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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May 24, 2018 |
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Stephan Resch, “Stefan Zweig und der Europa-Gedanke” (Königshausen & Neumann, 2017)
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May 24, 2018 |
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Shira Klein, “Italy’s Jews From Emancipation to Fascism” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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May 21, 2018 |
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Barry Wimpfheimer, “The Talmud: A Biography” (Princeton UP, 2018)
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May 10, 2018 |
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Mira Beth Wasserman, “Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals: The Talmud After the Humanities” (U Penn Press, 2017)
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May 02, 2018 |
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Erica Lehrer, “Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places” (Indiana UP, 2013)
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May 01, 2018 |
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Michael Brenner, “In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea” (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Apr 30, 2018 |
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Steven J. Zipperstein, “Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History” (Liveright/Norton, 2018)
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Apr 27, 2018 |
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Michal Kravel-Tovi, “When the State Winks: The Performance of Jewish Conversion in Israel” (Columbia UP, 2017)
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Apr 25, 2018 |
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Joshua Parens, “Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Medieval Political Philosophy” (U Rochester Press, 2016)
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Apr 13, 2018 |
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Kevin Simpson, “Soccer under the Swastika: Stories of Survival and Resistance during the Holocaust” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
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Apr 12, 2018 |
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Mira Balberg, “Blood for Thought: The Reinvention of Sacrifice in Early Rabbinic Literature” (U California Press, 2017)
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Apr 05, 2018 |
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Ruth von Bernuth, “How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition” (NYU Press, 2017)
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Apr 02, 2018 |
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Amelia Glaser, “Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising” (Stanford UP, 2015)
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Mar 30, 2018 |
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Kerry Wallach, “Passing Illusions: Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany” (U Michigan Press, 2017)
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Mar 29, 2018 |
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Chad Alan Goldberg, “Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought” (U Chicago Press, 2017
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Mar 27, 2018 |
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Bonnie Anderson, “The Rabbi’s Atheist Daughter: Ernestine Rose, International Feminist Pioneer” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Mar 26, 2018 |
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Motti Inbari, “Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism, and Women’s Equality” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
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Mar 23, 2018 |
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Ada Rapoport-Albert, “Hasidic Studies: Essays in History and Gender” (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2018)
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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Eric T. Jennings, “Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus from the French Caribbean” (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Mar 19, 2018 |
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Adriana M. Brodsky, “Sephardi, Jewish, Argentine: Community and National Identity, 1880-1960” (Indiana UP, 2016)
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Mar 14, 2018 |
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Yair Mintzker, “The Many Deaths of Jew Suss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew” (Princeton UP, 2017)
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Mar 12, 2018 |
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Vivian Liska, “German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife: A Tenuous Legacy” (Indiana UP, 2016)
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Mar 09, 2018 |
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Cynthia Baker, “Jew” (Rutgers UP, 2017)
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Mar 07, 2018 |
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David Weinstein, “The Eddie Cantor Story: A Jewish Life in Performance and Politics” (Brandeis UP, 2017)
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Mar 05, 2018 |
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Daniel B. Schwartz, “The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image” (Princeton UP, 2012)
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Mar 02, 2018 |
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Ian Black, “Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017)
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Mar 02, 2018 |
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David Biale, “Hasidism: A New History” (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Feb 22, 2018 |
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Sara Hirschhorn, “City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement” (Harvard UP, 2017)
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Feb 20, 2018 |
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Jeffrey Shandler, “Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age: Survivors’ Stories and New Media Practices” (Stanford UP, 2017)
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Feb 19, 2018 |
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Alfred Ivry, “Maimonides’ ‘Guide of the Perplexed’: A Philosophical Guide” (University of Chicago, 2016)
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Feb 13, 2018 |
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Leon Wiener Dow, “The Going: A Meditation on Jewish Law” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017)
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Feb 09, 2018 |
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Benjamin R. Gampel, “Anti-Jewish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Royal Response, 1391-1392” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
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Feb 06, 2018 |
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Omer Bartov, “Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz” (Simon and Schuster, 2018)
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Jan 30, 2018 |
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Noam Zadoff, “Gershom Scholem: From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back” (Brandeis UP, 2018)
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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Ella Shohat, “On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements” (Pluto Press, 2017)
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Jan 16, 2018 |
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Eddy Portnoy, “Bad Rabbi And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press” (Stanford UP, 2017)
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Jan 16, 2018 |
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Amos Goldberg, “Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing during the Holocaust” (Indiana UP, 2017)
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Jan 10, 2018 |
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Judith Schindler and Judy Seldin-Cohen, “Recharging Judaism” (CCAR, 2017)
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Jan 01, 2018 |
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Jessica Marglin, “Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco” (Yale UP, 2016)
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Dec 24, 2017 |
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Jack Jacobs, ed. “Jews and Leftist Politics: Judaism, Israel, Antisemitism, and Gender” (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
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Dec 18, 2017 |
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Lars Rensmann, “The Politics of Unreason: The Frankfurt School and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism” (SUNY Press, 2017)
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Dec 11, 2017 |
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David Jacobson, “The Charm of Wise Hesitancy: Talmudic Stories in Contemporary Israeli Culture” (Academic Studies Press, 2017)
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Nov 28, 2017 |
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Benjamin Brown, “The Haredim: A Guide to Their Beliefs and Sectors” (Am-Oved, 2017)
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Nov 16, 2017 |
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George Kiraz on Gorgias Press (NBn, 2017)
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Nov 02, 2017 |
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Adi Gordon, “Toward Nationalism’s End: An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn” (Brandeis UP, 2017)
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Oct 31, 2017 |
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Mark Dapin, “Jewish Anzacs: Jews in the Australian Military” (New South Press, 2017)
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Oct 27, 2017 |
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James L. Kugel, “The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)
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Oct 23, 2017 |
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Ronnie Perelis, “Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic: Blood and Faith” (Indiana UP, 2016)
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Oct 18, 2017 |
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Marion Deshmukh, “Max Liebermann: Modern Art and Modern Germany” (Routledge, 2015)
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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David L. Weddle, “Sacrifice in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam” (NYU Press, 2017)
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Oct 16, 2017 |
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David C. Mitchell, “Messiah ben Joseph” (Campbell Publications, 2016)
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Oct 12, 2017 |
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Yakov M. Rabkin, “What Is Modern Israel?” (U. Chicago/Pluto Press, 2016)
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Oct 04, 2017 |
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Barry W. Holtz, “Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud” (Yale UP, 2017)
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Sep 26, 2017 |
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Rachel Seelig, “Strangers in Berlin: Modern Jewish Literature between East and West, 1919-1933” (U. Michigan Press, 2016)
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Sep 25, 2017 |
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Henri Lustiger-Thaler and Habbo Knoch, eds., “Witnessing Unbound: Holocaust Representation and the Origins of Memory” (Wayne State UP, 2017)
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Sep 20, 2017 |
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Hanna Tervanotko, “Denying Her Voice: The Figure of Miriam in Ancient Jewish Literature” (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016)
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Aug 29, 2017 |
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Maurice Samuels, “The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews” (U. Chicago Press, 2016)
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Aug 14, 2017 |
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Elias Sacks, “Moses Mendelssohn’s Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism” (Indiana UP, 2016)
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Jul 31, 2017 |
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Pekka Pitkanen, “A Commentary on Numbers: Narrative, Ritual and Colonialism” (Routledge, 2017)
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Jul 26, 2017 |
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Gerben Zaagsma, “Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)
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Jul 24, 2017 |
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Geoffrey D. Claussen, “Sharing the Burden: Rabbi Simhah Zissel Ziv and the Path of Musar” (SUNY Press, 2015)
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Jul 13, 2017 |
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David I. Shyovitz, “A Remembrance of His Wonders: Nature and the Supernatural” (U. Penn Press, 2017)
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Jun 26, 2017 |
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Andrew Sloin, “The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power” (Indiana UP, 2017)
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Jun 19, 2017 |
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Sarah Imhoff, “Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism” (Indiana UP, 2017)
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May 31, 2017 |
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Nir Baram, “A Land Without Borders: My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank” (Text Publishing Company, 2017)
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May 30, 2017 |
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Amir Engel, “Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
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May 15, 2017 |
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Leonard Barkan, “Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First Century Companion” (U. Chicago Press, 2016)
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May 08, 2017 |
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Maya Barzilai, “Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters” (NYU Press, 2016)
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May 01, 2017 |
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William Kolbrener, “The Last Rabbi: Joseph Soloveitchik and Talmudic Tradition” (Indiana UP, 2016)
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Apr 24, 2017 |
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S. Brent Plate ed., “Key Terms in Material Religion” (Bloomsbury, 2015)
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Apr 24, 2017 |
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Lewis Glinert, “The Story of Hebrew” (Princeton UP, 2017)
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Apr 11, 2017 |
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Rhiannon Graybill, “Are We Not Men? Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Apr 07, 2017 |
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Benjamin Fondane, “Existential Monday” (NYRB Classics, 2016)
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Apr 07, 2017 |
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Yuval Harari, “Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah” (Wayne State UP, 2017)
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Mar 27, 2017 |
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Sarah Hammerschlag, “Broken Tablets: Levinas, Derrida, and the Literary Afterlife of Religion” (Columbia UP, 2016)
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Mar 20, 2017 |
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Julia Alekseyeva, “Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution” (Microcosm Publishing, 2017)
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Mar 14, 2017 |
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Jordan D. Rosenblum, “The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
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Mar 09, 2017 |
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Deborah Lipstadt, “Holocaust: An American Understanding” (Rutgers UP, 2016)
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Mar 06, 2017 |
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Elana Shapira, “Style and Seduction: Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siecle Vienna” (Brandeis UP, 2016)
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Mar 02, 2017 |
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Benjamin Schreier, “The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History” (NYU Press, 2015)
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Feb 27, 2017 |
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Mark Glickman, “Stolen Words: The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books” (The Jewish Publication Society, 2016)
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Feb 17, 2017 |
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Ferenc Laczo, “Hungarian Jews in the Age of Genocide: An Intellectual History, 1929-1948” (Brill, 2016)
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Feb 15, 2017 |
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Noah Lederman, “A World Erased: A Grandson’s Search for His Family’s Holocaust Secrets” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
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Feb 01, 2017 |
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Ellen Eisenberg, “The First to Cry Down Injustice?: Western Jews and Japanese Removal during WWII” (Lexington Books, 2008)
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Jan 27, 2017 |
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Dovid Katz, “Yiddish and Power” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
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Jan 18, 2017 |
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Ellie Schainker, “Confessions of the Shtetl: Converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817-1906” (Stanford UP, 2016)
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Jan 10, 2017 |
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David W. Stowe, “Song of Exile: The Enduring Mystery of Psalm 137” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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Sharon Rotbard, “White City, Black City: Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa” (MIT Press, 2015)
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Dec 26, 2016 |
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Eva Mroczek, “The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Dec 23, 2016 |
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Abigail Jacobson and Moshe Naor, “Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine” (Brandeis UP, 2016)
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Dec 23, 2016 |
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Devin Naar, “Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece” (Stanford UP, 2016)
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Dec 19, 2016 |
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Dov Weiss, “Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism” (U. Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
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Dec 12, 2016 |
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Bryan K. Roby, “The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel’s Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle, 1948-1966” (Syracuse UP, 2015)
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Nov 14, 2016 |
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Jennifer Glaser, “Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination” (Rutgers UP, 2016)
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Nov 07, 2016 |
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Jeffrey Gurock, “The Jews of Harlem: The Rise, Decline, and Revival of a Jewish Community” (NYU Press, 2016)
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Oct 31, 2016 |
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Fred Amram, “We’re in America Now: A Survivor’s Stories” (Holy Cow! Press, 2016)
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Oct 14, 2016 |
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Alisa Solomon, “Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof” (Metropolitan, 2013)
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Oct 03, 2016 |
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Jan Schwarz, “Survivors and Exiles: Yiddish Culture after the Holocaust” (Wayne State UP, 2015)
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Sep 26, 2016 |
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Carsten Schapkow, “Role Model and Countermodel: The Golden Age of Iberian Jewry and German Jewish Culture during the Era of Emancipation” (Lexington Books, 2015)
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Sep 19, 2016 |
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Sarah Abrevaya Stein, “Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century” (U. of Chicago Press, 2016)
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Sep 19, 2016 |
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Isabelle Hesse, “The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature: The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016)
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Sep 12, 2016 |
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Adam Rovner, “In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands Before Israel” (New York UP, 2014)
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Sep 05, 2016 |
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Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, “The Myth of the Cultural Jew: Culture and Law in Jewish Tradition” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Aug 29, 2016 |
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Jonathan Garb, “Yearnings of the Soul: Psychological Thought in Modern Kabbalah” (U. of Chicago Press, 2015)
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Aug 22, 2016 |
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Peter Trawny, “Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy” (U. of Chicago Press, 2015)
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Aug 15, 2016 |
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Robert O’Kell, “Disraeli: The Romance of Politics” (U. of Toronto Press, 2014)
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Aug 11, 2016 |
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Dov Waxman, “Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict Over Israel” (Princeton UP, 2016)
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Aug 08, 2016 |
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Michael Lesher, “Sexual Abuse, Shonda and Concealment in the Orthodox Jewish Communities” (McFarland, 2014)
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Aug 03, 2016 |
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Jack Jacobs, “The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
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Aug 02, 2016 |
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Diana L. Linden, “Ben Shahn’s New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene” (Wayne State UP, 2015)
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Jul 28, 2016 |
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Josh Lambert, “Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture” (NYU Press, 2014)
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Jul 18, 2016 |
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Daniel Jutte, “The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400-1800” (Yale UP, 2015)
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Jul 12, 2016 |
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Adam Mendelsohn, “The Rag Race” (NYU Press, 2015)
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Jul 05, 2016 |
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Ethan Katz, “The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France” (Harvard UP, 2015)
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Jun 28, 2016 |
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Michael Barnett, “The Star and the Stripes” (Princeton UP, 2016)
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Jun 27, 2016 |
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Sven-Erik Rose, “Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany, 1789-1848” (Brandeis UP, 2014)
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Jun 20, 2016 |
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Kenyon Zimmer, “Immigrants Against the State” (U of Illinois Press, 2015)
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Jun 16, 2016 |
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Saskia Coenen Snyder, “Building a Public Judaism” (Harvard UP, 2013)
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Jun 13, 2016 |
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Jon D. Levenson, “The Love of God: Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism” (Princeton UP, 2016)
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Jun 09, 2016 |
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Daniel Tilles, “British Fascist Antisemitism and Jewish Responses, 1932-1940” (Bloomsburg, 2015)
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Jun 06, 2016 |
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Dianne Ashton, “Hanukkah in America: A History” (New York UP, 2013)
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May 31, 2016 |
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Adam Ferziger, “Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism” (Wayne State UP, 2015)
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May 28, 2016 |
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Todd Endelman, “Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History” (Princeton UP, 2015)
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May 23, 2016 |
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Irene L. Gendzier, “Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East” (Columbia UP, 2015)
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May 18, 2016 |
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Mel Scult, “The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan” (Indiana UP, 2013)
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May 16, 2016 |
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Lynn Davidman, “Becoming Un-Orthodox: Stories of Ex-Hasidic Jews” (Oxford University Press, 2015)
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May 12, 2016 |
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Robert Holub, “Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism” (Princeton UP, 2016)
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May 09, 2016 |
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Ingrid Carlberg, “Raoul Wallenberg: The Biography” (MacLehose Press, 2016)
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May 04, 2016 |
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Gary A. Anderson, “Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition” (Yale University Press, 2013)
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May 02, 2016 |
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John M. Efron, “German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic” (Princeton UP, 2016)
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Apr 29, 2016 |
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Hillel Cohen, “Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929” (Brandeis UP, 2015)
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Apr 27, 2016 |
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Roger Horowitz, “Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food” (Columbia UP, 2016)
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Apr 21, 2016 |
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Stern, et al., “The Monk’s Haggadah: A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee” (Penn State UP, 2015)
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Apr 20, 2016 |
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Sarah Phillips Casteel, “Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination” (Columbia UP, 2016)
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Apr 18, 2016 |
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Daniel M. Horwitz, “A Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism Reader” (The Jewish Publication Society, 2016)
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Apr 12, 2016 |
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Susannah Drake, “Slandering the Jew: Sexuality and Difference in Early Christian Texts” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
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Apr 11, 2016 |
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Marc B. Shapiro, “Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism Rewrites Its History” (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2015)
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Apr 03, 2016 |
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Brennan W. Breed, “Nomadic Text: A Theory of Biblical Reception History” (Indiana UP, 2014)
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Apr 01, 2016 |
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Suzanne Brown-Fleming, “Nazi Persecution and Postwar Repercussions” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
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Mar 31, 2016 |
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Caroline E. Light, “That Pride of Race and Character: The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South” (NYU Press, 2014)
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Mar 29, 2016 |
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David A. Lambert, “How Repentance Became Biblical: Judaism, Christianity, and the Interpretation of Scripture” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Mar 28, 2016 |
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Tahneer Oksman, “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?” (Columbia UP, 2016)
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Mar 24, 2016 |
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Mariah Adin, “The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s” (Praeger, 2014)
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Mar 24, 2016 |
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Daniella Doron, “Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France: Rebuilding Family and Nation” (Indiana UP, 2015)
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Mar 21, 2016 |
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Joshua Zimmerman, “The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939-1945” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
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Mar 18, 2016 |
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Dan J. Puckett, “In the Shadow of Hitler: Alabama’s Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust” (U of Alabama Press, 2014)
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Mar 14, 2016 |
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Benjamin D. Sommer, “Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition” (Yale UP, 2015)
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Mar 06, 2016 |
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Theodore Sasson, “The New American Zionism” (NYU Press, 2014)
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Feb 29, 2016 |
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Jason Mokhtarian, “Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests: The Culture of the Talmud in Ancient Iran” (U of California Press, 2015)
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Feb 22, 2016 |
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Shai Held, “Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence” (Indiana UP, 2013)
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Feb 16, 2016 |
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Aviya Kushner, “The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible” (Spiegel and Grau, 2015)
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Feb 16, 2016 |
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Keren R. McGinity, “Marrying Out: Jewish Men, Intermarriage, and Fatherhood” (Indiana UP, 2014)
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Feb 08, 2016 |
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Yael Raviv, “Falafel Nation: Cuisine and the Making of National Identity in Israel” (University of Nebraska Press, 2015)
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Dec 17, 2015 |
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Ted Merwin, “Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli” (NYU Press, 2015)
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Dec 14, 2015 |
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Jodi Eichler-Levine, “Suffer the Little Children: Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children’s Literature” (NYU Press, 2013)
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Dec 14, 2015 |
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Kim Wunschmann, “Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps” (Harvard University Press 2015)
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Dec 12, 2015 |
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Maud S. Mandel, “Muslims and Jews in France: History of a Conflict” (Princeton University Press, 2014)
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Dec 11, 2015 |
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Erica Weiss, “Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
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Dec 10, 2015 |
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Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett, “Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights” (UNC Press, 2015)
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Dec 09, 2015 |
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Ranen Omer-Sherman, “Imagining the Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film” (Penn State UP, 2015)
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Dec 08, 2015 |
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Sarah Abrevaya Stein, “Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria” (U of Chicago, 2014)
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Dec 07, 2015 |
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Leah Garrett, “Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel” (Northwestern UP, 2015)
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Dec 03, 2015 |
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Glenn Dynner, “Yankel’s Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland” (Oxford UP, 2014)
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Dec 01, 2015 |
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Marjorie Feld, “Nations Divided: American Jews and the Struggle over Apartheid” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
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Nov 23, 2015 |
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Ilan Zvi Baron, “Obligation in Exile: The Jewish Diaspora, Israel and Critique” (Edinburgh UP, 2015)
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Nov 19, 2015 |
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Kenneth L. Marcus, “The Definition of Anti-Semitism” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Nov 12, 2015 |
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Richard H. King, “Arendt and America” (U of Chicago, 2015)
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Nov 08, 2015 |
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Aaron W. Hughes, “Rethinking Jewish Philosophy: Beyond Particularism and Universalism” (Oxford UP, 2014)
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Nov 05, 2015 |
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Cecile E. Kuznitz, “YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
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Oct 29, 2015 |
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Jeffery S. Gurock, “The Holocaust Averted: An Alternate History of American Jewry, 1938-1967” (Rutgers UP, 2015)
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Oct 22, 2015 |
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Jon Birger, “Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game” (Workman Publishing Company, 2015)
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Oct 15, 2015 |
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Lila Corwin Berman, “Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit” (U of Chicago, 2015)
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Oct 08, 2015 |
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Derek J. Penslar, “Jews and the Military: A History” (Princeton UP, 2015)
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Oct 01, 2015 |
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Kimberly Arkin, “Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic: Fashioning Jewishness in France” (Stanford UP, 2013)
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Sep 24, 2015 |
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Michael L. Satlow, “How the Bible Became Holy” (Yale UP, 2014)
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Sep 17, 2015 |
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Liora R. Halperin, “Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948” (Yale UP, 2014)
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Sep 10, 2015 |
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Jeffrey S. Shoulson, “Fictions of Conversion: Jews, Christians, and Cultures of Change in Early Modern England” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
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Sep 03, 2015 |
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Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler, eds., “The Jewish Study Bible” (Oxford UP, 2014)
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Sep 02, 2015 |
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Lisa Moses Leff, “The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Aug 03, 2015 |
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John H. Walton, “The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate” (IVP Academic, 2015)
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Jul 24, 2015 |
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Mark S. Wagner, “Jews and Islamic Law in Early 20th-Century Yemen” (Indiana UP, 2015)
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Jun 20, 2015 |
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Shulem Deen, “All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir” (Graywolf Press, 2015)
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Jun 14, 2015 |
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Lital Levy, “Poetic Trespass: Writing Between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine” (Princeton UP, 2014)
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Apr 06, 2015 |
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Emily Alice Katz, “Bringing Zion Home: Israel in American Jewish Culture, 1948-1967” (SUNY Press, 2015)
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Mar 26, 2015 |
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Hasia Diner, “Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way” (Yale University Press, 2015).
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Mar 10, 2015 |
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Alon Confino, “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide” (Yale UP, 2014)
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Mar 02, 2015 |
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Timothy Michael Law, “When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible” (Oxford UP, 2013)
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Dec 10, 2014 |
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Yaacov Ariel, “An Unusual Relationship: Evangelical Christians and Jews” (NYU Press, 2013)
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Dec 04, 2014 |
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Daniel Lee, “Petain’s Jewish Children: French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime, 1940-1942” (Oxford UP, 2014)
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Oct 07, 2014 |
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Rebecca Rossen, “Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance” (Oxford UP, 2014)
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Sep 13, 2014 |
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Matthew Hedstrom, “The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century” Oxford University Press, 2012
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Aug 08, 2014 |
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Adam Phillips, “Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst” (Yale UP, 2014)
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Jul 28, 2014 |
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Ronen Shamir, “Current Flow: The Electrification of Palestine” (Stanford UP, 2013)
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Jul 23, 2014 |
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Ari Joskowicz, “The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France” (Stanford UP, 2014)
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Jul 15, 2014 |
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Edmund Levin, “A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia” (Schocken, 2014)
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Jul 13, 2014 |
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Mark Levene, “The Crisis of Genocide” (Oxford University Press, 2014)
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Jun 03, 2014 |
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Donna-Lee Frieze, “Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin” (Yale UP, 2013)
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May 01, 2014 |
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Laura Silver, “Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food” (Brandeis University Press, 2014)
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Apr 26, 2014 |
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Steven L. Jacobs, “Lemkin on Genocide” (Lexington Books, 2012)
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Apr 12, 2014 |
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Nathan Schneider. “God in Proof: The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet” (University of California Press, 2013)
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Apr 07, 2014 |
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Josef Stern, “The Matter and Form of Maimonides’ Guide” (Harvard UP, 2013)
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Mar 14, 2014 |
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Sarah Pessin, “Ibn Gabirol’s Theology of Desire: Matter and Method in Jewish Medieval Neoplatonism” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
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Feb 15, 2014 |
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Olga Gershenson, “The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe” (Rutgers UP, 2013)
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Feb 05, 2014 |
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Waitman Beorn, “Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus” (Harvard UP, 2013)
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Jan 10, 2014 |
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Leora Batnitzky, “How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought” (Princeton UP, 2011)
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Jan 08, 2014 |
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Jeremy Dauber, “The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem” (Schocken, 2013)
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Nov 08, 2013 |
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Elaine R. Glickman, “The Messiah and the Jews” (Jewish Lights Publishing, 2013)
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Oct 30, 2013 |
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Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, “The Devil That Never Dies” (Little, Brown and Co., 2013)
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Oct 22, 2013 |
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Dan Stone, “Histories of the Holocaust” (Oxford UP, 2010)
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Oct 03, 2013 |
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Anne-Marie O’Connor, “The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer” (Knopf, 2012)
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Jul 12, 2013 |
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Christopher Browning, “Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp” (W. W. Norton, 2010)
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Jun 18, 2013 |
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Richard Rashke, “Useful Enemies: John Demjanjuk and America’s Open-Door Policy for Nazi War Criminals” (Delphinium, 2013)
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Apr 19, 2013 |
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Melissa R. Klapper, “Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890-1940” (NYU Press, 2013)
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Mar 18, 2013 |
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Donald Bloxham, “The Final Solution: A Genocide” (Oxford UP, 2009)
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Feb 12, 2013 |
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Gil Troy, “Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight Against Zionism as Racism” (Oxford UP, 2012)
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Jan 18, 2013 |
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Ilan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin, “El Iluminado: A Graphic Novel” (Basic Books, 2012)
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Dec 14, 2012 |
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Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, “The Massacre in Jedwabne, July 10, 1941: Before, During, After” (Columbia UP, 2005)
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Nov 08, 2012 |
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Peter Beinart, “The Crisis of Zionism” (Times Books, 2012)
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Jun 13, 2012 |
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Robert F. Barsky and Noam Chomsky, “Zellig Harris: From American Linguistics to Socialist Zionism” (MIT Press, 2011)
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Mar 07, 2012 |
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Jarrod Tanny, “City of Rogues and Schnorrers: Russia’s Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa” (Indiana UP, 2011)
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Dec 09, 2011 |
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Charles King, “Odessa: Genius and Death in the City of Dreams” (W.W. Norton, 2011)
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Aug 22, 2011 |
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Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin, “This Burning Land: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” (Wiley, 2011)
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Jun 10, 2011 |
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David Shneer, “Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust” (Rutgers UP, 2010)
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Apr 29, 2011 |
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Kenneth Moss, “Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution” (Harvard UP, 2010)
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Mar 10, 2011 |
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Jerry Muller, “Capitalism and the Jews” (Princeton UP, 2010)
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Jun 25, 2010 |
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Ruth Harris, “Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century” (Henry Holt, 2010)
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Jun 17, 2010 |
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Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, “The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew” (Yale UP, 2009)
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Mar 26, 2010 |
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Alan E. Steinweis, “Kristallnacht 1938” (Harvard UP, 2009)
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Jan 23, 2010 |
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Rebecca Manley, “To the Tashkent Station: Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War” (Cornell UP, 2009)
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Nov 20, 2009 |
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Tony Michels, “Fire in their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York” (Harvard UP, 2005)
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Apr 10, 2009 |
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Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, “Jews in the Russian Army, 1827-1917” (Cambridge UP, 2008)
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Feb 07, 2009 |
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Samuel Kassow, “Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive” (Indiana UP, 2007)
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Jan 30, 2009 |