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  1. The Intellectual Life and Cultural Milieu of Jewish Communities in Medieval Kaffa and Solkhat
  2. Golda Akhiezer
  3. pp. 1-21
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0004
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  1. The Sabbatian Who Devoured His Son: Jacob Emden's Anti-Sabbatian Polemics of Cannibalism
  2. Shai A. Alleson-Gerberg
  3. pp. 23-46
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0006
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  1. Secular Law as the "King's Law": Zionist Halakhah and Legal Theory
  2. Itzhak Brand
  3. pp. 47-66
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0007
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  1. Sexual Orientation in the Presentation of Joseph's Character in Biblical and Rabbinic Literature
  2. Robert A. Harris
  3. pp. 67-104
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0008
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  1. A Noisy and Noisome Marketplace: The Jewish Tandelmarkt in Prague
  2. Michael L. Miller
  3. pp. 105-123
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0009
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  1. A Seven-Headed Demon in the House of Study: Understanding a Rabbinic Demon in Light of Zoroastrian, Christian, and Babylonian Textual Traditions
  2. Sara Ronis
  3. pp. 125-142
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0005
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  1. From Dungeon to Haven: Competing Theories of Gestation in Leviticus Rabbah and the Babylonian Talmud
  2. Shana Strauch Schick
  3. pp. 143-168
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0000
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  1. "Oh Mohammed, Are You Still Awake?": Admiel Kosman, Martin Buber, and the Poetics of Engagement
  2. Maeera Y. Shreiber
  3. pp. 169-187
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0010
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  1. The Jewish Bible: A Material History by David Stern (review)
  2. Scott Mandelbrote
  3. pp. 189-191
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0011
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  1. Inconsistency in the Torah: Ancient Literary Convention and the Limits of Source Criticism by Joshua A. Berman (review)
  2. Stephen D. Campbell
  3. pp. 191-193
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0012
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  1. Landscapes of the Song of Songs: Poetry and Place by Elaine T. James (review)
  2. Kelli A. Gardner
  3. pp. 193-195
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0013
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  1. Washing Away Sin: An Analysis of the Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible and Its Influence by Lesley R. DiFransico (review)
  2. Joseph Lam
  3. pp. 195-197
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0014
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  1. Biblical Narratives of Israelites and Their Neighbors: Strangers at the Gate by Adriane Leveen (review)
  2. Amanda Mbuvi
  3. pp. 197-199
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0015
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  1. Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity by Karen B. Stern (review)
  2. Mika Ahuvia
  3. pp. 199-201
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0016
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  1. Philo of Alexandria: An Intellectual Biography by Maren R. Niehoff (review)
  2. René Bloch
  3. pp. 201-204
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0017
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  1. Secret Groups in Ancient Judaism by Michael E. Stone (review)
  2. L. Scott Brand
  3. pp. 204-206
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0018
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  1. In Search of the Promised Land? The Hasmonean Dynasty between Biblical Models and Hellenistic Diplomacy by Katell Berthelot (review)
  2. Robert Doran
  3. pp. 206-208
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0001
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  1. An Early History of Compassion: Emotion and Imagination in Hellenistic Judaism by Françoise Mirguet (review)
  2. R. Gillian Glass
  3. pp. 208-210
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0019
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  1. Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric: Sophistic Education and Oratory in the Talmud and Midrash by Richard Hidary (review)
  2. Matthew Goldstone
  3. pp. 210-212
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0020
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  1. Massekhet Hullin by Tal Ilan (review)
  2. Jonathan S. Milgram
  3. pp. 212-214
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0021
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  1. A Matter of Geography: A New Perspective on Medieval Hebrew Poetry by Uriah Kfir (review)
  2. Jonathan Decter
  3. pp. 214-216
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0022
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  1. The Jewish Economic Elite: Making Modern Europe by Cornelia Aust (review)
  2. Verena Kasper-Marienberg
  3. pp. 216-219
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0023
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  1. Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture by Eve Krakowski (review)
  2. Renée Levine Melammed
  3. pp. 219-221
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0024
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  1. The Virtue Ethics of Levi Gersonides by Alexander Green (review)
  2. Tamar M. Rudavsky
  3. pp. 221-223
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0025
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  1. The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew by Yair Mintzker (review)
  2. Debra Kaplan
  3. pp. 223-226
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0026
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  1. The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew by Yair Mintzker (review)
  2. Dean Phillip Bell
  3. pp. 226-228
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0027
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  1. Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America by Shari Rabin (review)
  2. Jeanne Abrams
  3. pp. 228-230
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0028
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  1. "What! Still Alive?!": Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming by Monika Rice (review)
  2. Anna Cichopek-Gajraj
  3. pp. 230-232
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0029
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  1. A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War by Tim Grady (review)
  2. Jessica Cooperman
  3. pp. 232-234
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0030
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  1. Deborah and Her Sisters: How One Nineteenth-Century Melodrama and a Host of Celebrated Actresses Put Judaism on the World Stage by Jonathan M. Hess (review)
  2. Anat Feinberg
  3. pp. 235-237
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0031
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  1. Haifa: City of Steps by Nili Scharf Gold (review)
  2. Karen Grumberg
  3. pp. 237-239
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0002
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  1. Educational Oases in the Desert: The Alliance Israélite Universelle's Girls' Schools in Ottoman Iraq, 1895–1915 by Jonathan Sciarcon (review)
  2. Isabelle Headrick
  3. pp. 239-241
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0032
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  1. Mixed Feelings: Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture by Katja Garloff (review)
  2. Jennifer Hoyer
  3. pp. 241-243
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0033
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  1. Italy's Jews from Emancipation to Fascism by Sharon Klein (review)
  2. David I. Kertzer
  3. pp. 243-245
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0003
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  1. The Merchants of Oran: A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire by Joshua Schreier (review)
  2. Susan Gilson Miller
  3. pp. 246-247
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0034
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  1. Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory by Walter Zev Feldman (review)
  2. Hankus Netsky
  3. pp. 248-249
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0035
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  1. Religious Zionism, Jewish Law, and the Morality of War: How Five Rabbis Confronted One of Modern Judaism's Greatest Challenges by Robert Eisen (review)
  2. Elisheva Rosman-Stollman
  3. pp. 250-251
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0036
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  1. Bestiarium Judaicum: Unnatural Histories of the Jews by Jay Geller (review)
  2. Ulrike Schneider
  3. pp. 252-253
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0037
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  1. In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea by Michael Brenner (review)
  2. Anita Shapira
  3. pp. 254-256
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0038
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  1. Passing Illusions: Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany by Kerry Wallach (review)
  2. Jill S. Smith
  3. pp. 256-258
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0039
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  1. Israel in the American Mind: The Cultural Politics of US-Israeli Relations, 1958–1988 by Shaul Mitelpunkt (review)
  2. Mira Sucharov
  3. pp. 258-260
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0040
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  1. Youth Encounter Programs in Israel: Pedagogy, Identity, & Social Change by Karen Ross (review)
  2. Sheera Talpaz
  3. pp. 260-262
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0041
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  1. William Kolbrener. The Last Rabbi:: Joseph Soloveitchik and Talmudic Tradition—corrigendum
  2. Shaul Magid
  3. p. 263
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0042
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