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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’s 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—and his legacy

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

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’s combative intellectual scene

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 Dalton

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

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

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