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    Cover of Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt
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    Liv­ing with the Law: Gen­der and Com­mu­ni­ty Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt
    Oded Zinger
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    Onto Cen­ter Stage: The Bib­li­cal Woman
    Sara Reguer
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    Women Hold­ing Things
    Maira Kalman
    Cover of Sally Opened Doors: The Story of the First Woman Rabbi
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    Sal­ly Opened Doors: The Sto­ry of the First Woman Rabbi
    Sandy Eisenberg Sasso; Margeaux Lucas, illus. 
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    One Hun­dred Sat­ur­days: Stel­la Levi and the Search for a Lost World
    Michael Frank
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    The Thread Col­lec­tors: A Novel
    Alyson Rich­man
    Shaunna Edwards
    Cover of I Kept Walking: The Unlikely Story of a Persian Woman with Polio
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    I Kept Walk­ing: The Unlike­ly Sto­ry of a Per­sian Woman with Polio
    Minou Mich­lin
    Cover of Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman
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    Rahel Varn­hagen: The Life of a Jew­ish Woman
    Hannah Arendt; Clara Winston and Richard Winston, trans.
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