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The Jewish South The Jewish South: An American History Shari Rabin

A panoramic history of the Jewish American South, from European colonization to today

Reading Herzl in Beirut Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy Jonathan Marc Gribetz

How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO鈥檚 relationship to Zionism and Israel

American Maccabee American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews Andrew Porwancher

A major biography of a mesmerizing statesman whose complex bond with the Jewish people forever shaped their lives鈥攁nd his legacy

Write like a Man Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals Ronnie Grinberg

How virility and Jewishness became hallmarks of postwar New York鈥檚 combative intellectual scene

The Closed Book The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg

A groundbreaking reinterpretation of early Judaism, during the millennium before the study of the Bible took center stage

Ethics of the Algorithm Ethics of the Algorithm: Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory Todd Presner

How computational methods can expand how we see, read, and listen to Holocaust testimony

How Rabbis Became Experts How Rabbis Became Experts: Social Circles and Donor Networks in Jewish Late Antiquity Krista N. Dalton

How rabbinic expertise was socially constructed, performed, and defended in Roman Palestine

A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean Yaron Z. Eliav

A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient Rome

Who Really Wrote the Bible Who Really Wrote the Bible: The Story of the Scribes William M. Schniedewind

A groundbreaking new account of the writing of the Hebrew Bible