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| Preface to the Third Edition |
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| Publisher's Acknowledgments |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Notes on Spelling and Transliteration |
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1 Ancient Israel and Other Ancestors |
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1 | (32) |
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Searching for Israel's Origins |
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2 | (1) |
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BCE and CE: The Religious Background of How We Think About History |
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3 | (3) |
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The Origins and Meaning(s) of the Name Israel |
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6 | (2) |
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The Biblical World in Brief |
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8 | (5) |
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A Confirmable Chronology of Ancient Israelite History |
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13 | (1) |
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Fitting the Bible Into History |
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14 | (3) |
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14 | (3) |
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The Search for Solomon's Temple |
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17 | (3) |
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18 | (2) |
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Biblical Archaeology: A Controversial Quest |
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20 | (4) |
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Surviving Mesopotamian Domination |
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22 | (2) |
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Sex and Death in Ancient Israel |
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24 | (6) |
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27 | (3) |
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Where Does God Come From? |
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30 | (1) |
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From the Historical Israel Back to Biblical Israel |
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31 | (2) |
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2 Becoming the People of the Book |
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33 | (29) |
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34 | (4) |
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Intermarriage: Biblical Arguments for and Against |
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38 | (1) |
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Stage t: The Composition of Biblical Literature |
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39 | (1) |
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On Why the Bible Is Not a Book |
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40 | (4) |
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How Does the Hebrew Bible Differ From Other Ancient Near Eastern Texts? |
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44 | (2) |
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A Snapshot of the Hebrew Bible in the Making |
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46 | (1) |
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Stage 2: The Canonization of the Bible |
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47 | (4) |
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A Crash Course in the Jewish Bible |
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51 | (1) |
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Biblical Stories the Bible Doesn't Tell |
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52 | (4) |
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Modern Encounters With Mount Sinai |
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56 | (3) |
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The Bible and the Birth of Jewish Culture |
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59 | (1) |
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Five Questions About the Jewish Bible |
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60 | (2) |
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62 | (27) |
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From Alexander to Ptolemaic Egypt |
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63 | (5) |
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68 | (3) |
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Seleucid Rule and the Maccabean Revolt |
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71 | (1) |
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Did Antisemitism Originate in Hellenistic Egypt? |
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72 | (3) |
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Is Martyrdom a Jewish Invention? |
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75 | (3) |
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Forgotten Heroines of Hanukkah: Were the True Heroes of the Maccabean Revolt Women? |
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78 | (2) |
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Emerging Religious Differences |
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80 | (4) |
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Answering Some Questions About the Dead Sea Scrolls |
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84 | (2) |
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The Afterlife of Jewish Hellenistic Culture |
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86 | (3) |
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89 | (31) |
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Roman Rule and Its Jewish Allies |
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90 | (5) |
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95 | (1) |
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Resisting Rome---and the Aftermath |
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95 | (3) |
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98 | (2) |
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The Mass Suicide at Masada |
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100 | (2) |
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102 | (10) |
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Jewish Life Before and After the Temples Destruction |
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104 | (6) |
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Christianity's Emergence From Jewish Culture |
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110 | (2) |
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The Quest for the Historical Jesus |
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112 | (2) |
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114 | (2) |
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From the Sabbath to Sunday |
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116 | (1) |
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117 | (3) |
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The Transition to Late Antiquity |
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118 | (2) |
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120 | (34) |
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The Late Antique Context of Rabbinic Judaism |
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121 | (5) |
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Jewish Life in a Christianized Roman Context |
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121 | (5) |
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Converting the Land of Israel Into the Christian Holy Land |
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126 | (3) |
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Jewish Life in Sasanian Babylonia |
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127 | (2) |
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A Synagogue in a War Zone |
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129 | (2) |
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Putting the Rabbis Into the Picture |
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131 | (4) |
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The Emergence of Rabbinic Culture |
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132 | (3) |
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What Became of the Priests After the Temple's Destruction? |
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135 | (4) |
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136 | (3) |
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The Other Ancient Jewish Language |
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139 | (3) |
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The Babylonian Talmud and Beyond |
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141 | (1) |
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Wading Into the Sea of Talmud |
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142 | (4) |
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146 | (1) |
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The Impact of the Rabbis on Jewish Culture |
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146 | (1) |
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A Who's Who of the Ancient Rabbis |
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147 | (3) |
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Cracking the Bible's Code Rabbinically |
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150 | (2) |
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A Brief Introduction to Jewish Prayer |
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152 | (2) |
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154 | (29) |
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155 | (3) |
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155 | (2) |
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The Umayyad Caliphate and the "Pact of Umar" |
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157 | (1) |
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158 | (1) |
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The Abbasid Caliphate and the Babylonian Geonim |
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159 | (4) |
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The Gaonic Standardization of Jewish Prayer |
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163 | (1) |
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Egypt, Palestine, and the Karaite Challenge |
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163 | (2) |
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The "Golden Age" of Muslim Spain |
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165 | (1) |
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166 | (3) |
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169 | (2) |
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Jewish Thought in the Islamic Middle Ages |
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171 | (4) |
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How to Become a Jewish Philosopher in the Middle Ages |
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175 | (1) |
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Jewish Lives Under Islamic Rule |
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176 | (3) |
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179 | (4) |
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183 | (30) |
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From Roman Law to Royal Serfdom |
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184 | (6) |
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Medieval Charters and Royal Authority |
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186 | (3) |
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189 | (1) |
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190 | (1) |
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190 | (8) |
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Jewish Communities in Northern Europe |
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190 | (2) |
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Rabbinic Culture in Medieval Ashkenaz |
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192 | (2) |
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194 | (1) |
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195 | (3) |
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A Jewish Polemic Against Christianity |
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198 | (1) |
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A Disastrous Fourteenth Century |
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198 | (1) |
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199 | (1) |
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199 | (1) |
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The Blood Libel and Other Lethal Accusations |
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200 | (8) |
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Sefarad and the Rise of Kabbalah |
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204 | (3) |
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207 | (1) |
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Banning Jewish Philosophy |
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208 | (1) |
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209 | (1) |
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210 | (3) |
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213 | (25) |
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Iberian Jewry Between Inquisition and Expulsion |
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215 | (1) |
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The Hebrew Printing Revolution |
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216 | (1) |
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217 | (4) |
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The Sephardi Jews of the Ottoman Empire |
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221 | (3) |
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Ottoman Safed in the Sixteenth Century |
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224 | (2) |
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The Jews of the Moroccan Mellah |
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226 | (1) |
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227 | (1) |
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Between Ghetto and Renaissance: The Jews of Early Modern Italy |
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228 | (4) |
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232 | (2) |
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Christian Humanism, the Protestant Reformation, and the Jews |
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234 | (4) |
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9 New Worlds, East and West |
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238 | (24) |
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In the Nobles' Republic: Jews in Early Modern Eastern Europe |
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238 | (3) |
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The Jewish Community in Poland-Lithuania |
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241 | (2) |
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Early Modern Ashkenazi Culture |
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243 | (3) |
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Keeping Time in Early Modern Europe |
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246 | (2) |
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The Thirty Years' War (1618--1648), Mercantilism, and the Rise of the "Court Jews" |
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248 | (1) |
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Glickl of Hameln and Her Zikhroynes |
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249 | (1) |
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Questions of Identity: Conversos and the "Port Jews" of the Atlantic World |
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250 | (1) |
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251 | (7) |
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The Lost Tribes of Israel |
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258 | (2) |
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Shabbatai Zvi: A Jewish Messiah Converts to Islam |
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260 | (2) |
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10 The State of the Jews, the Jews and the State |
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262 | (28) |
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Changing Boundaries in the Eighteenth Century |
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264 | (1) |
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Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia and the Jews |
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265 | (4) |
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Jews and Boxing in Georgian England |
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269 | (2) |
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Jews Through Jewish and Non-Jewish Eyes |
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271 | (4) |
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Jews and the French Revolution |
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275 | (3) |
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276 | (2) |
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278 | (1) |
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An Old Language for a New Society: Judah Moniss Hebrew Grammar |
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279 | (1) |
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Jewish Emancipation in Southern and Central Europe |
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280 | (3) |
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Status of the Jews Under Ottoman Rule |
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283 | (1) |
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Russian Jewry and the State |
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284 | (6) |
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11 Modern Transformations |
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290 | (45) |
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290 | (1) |
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291 | (1) |
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292 | (6) |
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298 | (2) |
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300 | (2) |
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Israel Salanter and the Musar Movement |
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302 | (1) |
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Incipient Modernity in Sephardic Amsterdam |
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303 | (1) |
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The Haskalah in Central Europe |
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304 | (2) |
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305 | (1) |
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Educational Reforms in Berlin |
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306 | (1) |
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Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem |
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307 | (1) |
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Literature of the Berlin Haskalah |
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307 | (2) |
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309 | (1) |
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The Haskalah in Eastern Europe |
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309 | (5) |
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310 | (2) |
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312 | (2) |
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314 | (3) |
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Wissenschaft des Judentums (Academic Study of Judaism) |
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317 | (1) |
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318 | (1) |
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The Rise of Modern Jewish Historiography |
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319 | (1) |
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Linguistic Border Crossing: The Creation of Esperanto |
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320 | (1) |
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The Rise of Reform Judaism |
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321 | (1) |
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Jewish Women in Domestic Service |
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322 | (2) |
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The New Israelite Hospital in Hamburg |
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324 | (4) |
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325 | (3) |
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328 | (3) |
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Positive-Historical Judaism |
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330 | (1) |
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Religious Reforms Beyond Germany |
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331 | (1) |
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New Synagogues and the Architecture of Emancipation |
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331 | (4) |
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12 The Politics of Being Jewish |
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335 | (43) |
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336 | (1) |
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336 | (2) |
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338 | (17) |
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339 | (2) |
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341 | (3) |
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344 | (2) |
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346 | (4) |
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350 | (1) |
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351 | (4) |
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355 | (16) |
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The Rise of Modern Jewish Politics |
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356 | (1) |
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356 | (2) |
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358 | (10) |
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Philanthropy and Acculturation |
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368 | (2) |
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The Pursuit of Happiness: Coming to America |
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370 | (1) |
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Uptown Jews: The Rise of the German Jews in America |
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370 | (1) |
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Bertha Pappenheim and the League of Jewish Women |
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371 | (1) |
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Downtown Jews: Eastern European Jewish Immigrants |
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371 | (1) |
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A Meal to Remember: "The Trefa Banquet" |
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372 | (6) |
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378 | (40) |
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378 | (4) |
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Jews on the Eastern Front |
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379 | (1) |
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Jews on the Western Front |
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379 | (2) |
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381 | (1) |
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The Jews of Interwar Europe |
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382 | (10) |
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Interwar Jewry: The Numbers |
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383 | (2) |
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Soviet Russia Between the Wars |
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385 | (3) |
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388 | (2) |
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390 | (1) |
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391 | (1) |
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The Balkans Between the Wars |
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391 | (1) |
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Jewish Cultural Life in Interwar Central Europe |
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392 | (4) |
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Interwar Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany |
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392 | (3) |
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Interwar Jewish Culture in Poland |
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395 | (1) |
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396 | (4) |
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400 | (1) |
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Zionist Diplomacy Between the Wars |
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401 | (1) |
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402 | (3) |
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Ze'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky and Revisionist Zionism |
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404 | (1) |
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405 | (13) |
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405 | (1) |
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Mandate Palestine Between the Wars |
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406 | (3) |
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409 | (1) |
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Tensions With the Palestinian Arabs |
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410 | (3) |
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The Jews of the Eastern Levant and Muslim Lands |
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413 | (5) |
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418 | (41) |
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The Jews in Hitler's Worldview |
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418 | (2) |
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Phase I: The Persecution of German Jewry (1933--1939) |
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420 | (14) |
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424 | (4) |
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428 | (1) |
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The Economics of Persecution |
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428 | (3) |
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The Night of Broken Glass |
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431 | (3) |
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Phase II: The Destruction of European Jewry (1939--1945) |
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434 | (6) |
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437 | (3) |
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440 | (13) |
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Mass Shootings in the Soviet Union |
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443 | (3) |
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446 | (5) |
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451 | (2) |
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Resistance in the Vilna Ghetto |
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453 | (1) |
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The Model Concentration Camp: Theresienstadt |
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454 | (2) |
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Awareness of Genocide and Rescue Attempts |
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455 | (1) |
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456 | (3) |
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459 | (60) |
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In the Aftermath of the Holocaust |
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460 | (1) |
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The Rise of the State of Israel |
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460 | (1) |
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461 | (2) |
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463 | (5) |
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463 | (4) |
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467 | (1) |
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468 | (11) |
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479 | (3) |
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480 | (1) |
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The Impact of the Holocaust |
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481 | (1) |
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Rebelling Against American-Jewish Suburbia |
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482 | (2) |
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484 | (10) |
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485 | (1) |
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485 | (4) |
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American Jews and the State of Israel |
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489 | (5) |
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Eastern Europe After the Shoah |
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494 | (6) |
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494 | (3) |
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497 | (1) |
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498 | (1) |
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499 | (1) |
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Western Europe After the Shoah |
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500 | (1) |
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500 | (1) |
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Jews and the Invention of Postmodernism in Postwar France |
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501 | (2) |
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501 | (1) |
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Other Western European Countries |
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502 | (1) |
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The Jews of the Southern Hemisphere |
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503 | (2) |
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Contemporary Antisemitism |
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505 | (10) |
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515 | (1) |
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515 | (4) |
| Timeline of Jewish History |
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519 | (14) |
| Glossary |
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533 | (22) |
| Index |
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