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Nonfiction No Religion Without Idolatry: Mendelssohn’s Jewish Enlightenment Gideon Freudenthal
Nonfiction Poverty and Welfare among the Portuguese Jews of Early Modern Amsterdam Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld
Nonfiction Living in Silverado: Secret Jews in the Silver Mining Towns of Colonial Mexico David M. Gitlitz
Nonfiction Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets Elissa Bemporad
Jewish Text Rashi’s Commentary on the Torah: Canonization and Resistance in the Reception of a Jewish Classic Eric Lawee
Nonfiction The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70 – 1492 Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein
Nonfiction The En Yaaqov: Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus Marjorie Lehman