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Nonfiction

The Lad­der of Jacob: Ancient Inter­pre­ta­tions of the Bib­li­cal Sto­ry of Jacob and His Children

James L. Kugel

Nonfiction

Two Nations in Your Womb: Per­cep­tions of Jews and Chris­tians in Late Antiq­ui­ty and the Mid­dle Ages

Israel Jacob Yuval

Nonfiction

Reck­less Rites: Purim and the Lega­cy of Jew­ish Violence

Elliot Horowitz

Nonfiction

Telling the Lit­tle Secrets: Amer­i­can Jew­ish Writ­ing Since the 1980’s

Janet Han­dler Burstein

Nonfiction

The Tal­mud’s The­o­log­i­cal Lan­guage Game: A Philo­soph­i­cal Dis­course Analysis

Eugene B. Borowitz

Nonfiction

On Sac­ri­fice

Moshe Hal­ber­tal

Nonfiction

We’re Miss­ing The Point:What’s Wrong With The Ortho­dox Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty And How to Fix it

Rab­bi Dr. Gidon Rothstein

Nonfiction

Defend­ing the Human Spir­it: Jew­ish law’s Vision For a Moral Society

Rab­bi Dr. War­ren Goldstein

Nonfiction

Wit­ness to the One: The spir­i­tu­al his­to­ry of the Sh’ma

Rab­bi Joseph B. Meszler

Nonfiction

Pledges of Jew­ish Alle­giance: Con­ver­sion, Law, and Pol­i­cy­mak­ing in Nine­teenth- and Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Ortho­dox Responsa

David Ellen­son and Daniel Gordis

Nonfiction

Essen­tial Torah: A Com­plete Guide to the Five Books of Moses

George Robin­son

Nonfiction

For­eign­ers and Their Food: Con­struct­ing Oth­er­ness in Jew­ish, Chris­t­ian, and Islam­ic Law

David M. Freidenreich

Nonfiction

Promis­cu­ous: Portnoy’s Com­plaint and Our Doomed Pur­suit of Happiness

Bernard Avishai

Nonfiction

Lega­cy: A Genet­ic His­to­ry of the Jew­ish People

Har­ry Ostrer

Nonfiction

The JPS Com­men­tary on the Hag­gadah: His­tor­i­cal Intro­duc­tion, Trans­la­tion, and Commentary

Joseph Tabo­ry; David Stern, fwd.

Nonfiction

The Book of Job

Harold S. Kushner

Nonfiction

Wives With­out Hus­bands: Mar­riage, Deser­tion, and Wel­fare in New York 1900 – 1935

Anna R. Igra

Nonfiction

Wrestling Jacob: Decep­tion, Iden­ti­ty and Freudi­an Slips in Genesis

Shmuel Klit­sner

Children's

The Fam­i­ly Book of Midrash: Fifty-Two Jew­ish Sto­ries From the Sages

Bar­bara Dia­mond Goldin

Nonfiction

Men of Silk: The Hasidic Con­quest of Pol­ish Jew­ish Society

Glenn Dyn­ner