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Opening the doors of wonder : reflections on religious rites of passage by Magida, Arthur J.

Table of Contents: “…Like A Closet Jew; 10 Rabbi Harold Kushner: I Wanted To Make My Parents Proud.…”
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Opening the doors of wonder : reflections on religious rites of passage by Magida, Arthur J.

Table of Contents: “…Like A Closet Jew; 10 Rabbi Harold Kushner: I Wanted To Make My Parents Proud.…”
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Early Christian monastic literature and the Babylonian Talmud by Siegal, Michal Bar-Asher, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Talking to the DeadRain; Resh Lakish Narratives: The Repentant Robber, Crossing Rivers, Losing Power, and the Affected Sister; Conclusion; 5 The Making of a Monk-Rabbi: The Stories of R. Shimon bar Yo.ai in the Cave; The Talmudic Stories Compared; Similarities and Differences between the Two Versions of the Rashbi Story; Similarities; Differences; [A]; [B]; [C, D]; [E]; [F]; [G]; [H]; [I]; [J]; [K]; Explaining the Differences; Differences Explained by Comparison with Monastic Texts; [A, B]; [C]; [D]; [E]; Conclusions; 6 Repentant Whore, Repentant Rabbi: The Story of Eleazar b. …”
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Rabbinic narrative : a documentary perspective / Agadah by Neusner, Jacob, 1932-2016

Table of Contents: “…Forms, types and distribution of narratives in Song of Songs Rabbah and Lamentations Rabbah and a Reprise of Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan Text A -- v. 4. The precedent and the parable in Diachronic View.…”
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"I have always loved the holy tongue" : Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a forgotten chapter in Renaissance scholarship by Grafton, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…Rabbi Isaac Casaubon : a Hellenist meets the Jews -- How Casaubon read Hebrew texts -- Wider horizons in Hebraic studies -- Casaubon and Baronio : early Christianity in a Jewish setting -- The teller and the tale : what Casaubon learned from Jews -- Appendices : 1. …”
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Waiting for America : a story of emigration by Shrayer, Maxim, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Rafaella's Rusty Mustang -- Interlude : The Roubenis of Esfahan -- 6. The Rabbi and the Pastor -- Part 3. Baggage -- 7. Napoleon at San Marino -- Interlude : Literature is Love -- 8. …”
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Thin description : ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem by Jackson, John L., Jr., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Passover -- Introductions -- Artscience -- Megiddo -- Chicago -- Exiles -- Backstage -- Analogies -- Asiel -- Hustling -- Ignorance -- YMCA -- UnAfrican -- Empress -- Camps -- Liberia -- Visitations -- Immortality -- Jungle -- Thin -- Carrel -- Orientalism -- Digital -- Children -- Eden -- Disciplining -- Zimreeyah -- Sincere -- Casein -- Prodigal -- Esau -- Soul -- Laughing -- Occulted -- Order -- Genesis -- Insincerities -- Sumerians -- Munir -- Brochure -- Rabbi -- Hebrews -- Zombie -- MLK -- Seconds.…”
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A world apart : a memoir of Jewish life in nineteenth century Galicia by Margoshes, Joseph, 1866-1955

Table of Contents: “…Family memoirs -- My mother's family -- My father -- Reb Mordecai Peltz -- The Belzer rabbi -- Ignatz Deutsch -- The Krakow rabbi -- The newspaper -- Hospitality -- The Talner rebb -- My father's death -- Yaha"sh -- Jacob Werber, the master of Haivri -- My childhood -- Melamdim -- Gemara melamdim -- My two girlfriends -- Haskalah -- Reb Vovtshi's kloyz -- In Tarnow -- The Tarnow kloyz -- Kloyz-boys -- Reb Naftoli Reb Pesakh's -- Shidukhim -- I become a khosn (groom) -- My wedding -- After the wedding -- Village work -- I get shot -- I get bound -- Riding a horse -- I become a merchant -- Yozefov -- Velvele Damask -- Radomishla -- A fallen takef -- At the rebbe's in Dembitz -- A strike in the Zgursk manor -- Jews and peasants -- Pritsim, gendarmes, and priests -- Pritsim, gendarmes, and priests (continued) -- The wedding -- Shimshen Asheim -- Theft -- Shtsutsin (Szczuczyn) -- The sold-off estate -- Wet and dry years -- The wet year -- The dry year -- Uncle Moyshe Lind -- Out of Yosefov -- The Shtsutsin meadows -- Oshitz -- Uncle Khazkl -- Yitshok Mordkhe Bernstein -- My business ventures in the Shtsutsin meadows -- My father-in-law and his enemies -- Criminal proceedings -- Pikolovka -- The takeover of Pikolovka -- Punishment or coincidence?…”
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The hidden Jesus

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Kale ya Washairi wa Pemba : Kamange na Sarahani. by Abdala, Abdilatif

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Singer's typewriter and mine : reflections on Jewish culture by Stavans, Ilan

Table of Contents: “…Waiting for Rabbi Harvey. A visit to centro historico -- Essays -- Singer's typewriter and mine -- Vilde khaye! …”
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The Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference

Table of Contents: “…List of Contributors; List of Illustrations; Opening Remarks; The Escape from Vasto, Complaints of a 15th-Century Rabbi; Fortune and Providence: A Paradigm in Isaac Abravanel's Encounter With Renaissance Culture; Jews and the Grain, Oil and Wine Trades in 15th- and 16th-Century Apulia; Jewish Book Collection and Patronage in Renaissance Italy; Joseph Ha-Cohen and His Negative Attitude Toward R. …”
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Solomon's temple : myth, conflict, and faith by Balfour, Alan (Alan H.)

Table of Contents: “…Machine derived contents note: List of Figures ix -- List of Plates xii -- Prologue 1 -- 1 Solomon's Temple 6 -- The Ark of the Covenant 8 -- King David 19 -- The Temple of Solomon 21 -- Nebuchadnezzar II 28 -- 2 Herod 37 -- The Maccabeans 41 -- Pompey 43 -- Herod 45 -- Herod Demolishes the Second Temple 48 -- The Third Temple 51 -- The Royal Portico 57 -- 3 ''Not one stone upon another'' 65 -- Moneychangers 68 -- Paul 72 -- The Temple Destroyed 74 -- 4 The Holy Sepulcher 88 -- Hadrian and Aelia Capitolina 88 -- Constantine 93 -- The Plague 103 -- The Fall of Rome 105 -- Hagia Sophia 107 -- Madaba 110 -- vi Contents -- The Persian War 111 -- 5 Dome of the Rock 117 -- Muhammad and the Fall of Jerusalem 122 -- Umar in Jerusalem 123 -- The Dome of the Rock 129 -- The Rock 137 -- 6 Templum Domini 146 -- The Jews Return 149 -- The First Crusade 154 -- Crusader Jerusalem 158 -- Templum Domini 160 -- The Templars in the Palace of Solomon 163 -- Saladin 167 -- 7 Recreating the Temple 175 -- In the Imagination of Priests 178 -- The Temple in the Popular Imagination 199 -- Return to Mount Moriah 205 -- 8 Jerusalem 217 -- Views 217 -- Maps 225 -- British Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem 234 -- The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) 240 -- Jerusalem and World War I 247 -- 9 Al-Haram Al-Sharif 254 -- The Path to Conflict 254 -- Jerusalem Under Transjordan 257 -- An Naksah, The Six Day War 259 -- Liberation of Temple Mount 260 -- Archeology and the Western Wall 263 -- The Burning of Al-Aqsa Mosque 264 -- Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount 266 -- The Rabbi's Tunnel 269 -- Continual Provocation 271 -- Rabbi's Tunnel Revisited 275 -- Camp David Summit 276 -- The Second Intifada 277 -- Contents vii -- Epilogue 282 -- Acknowledgments, Sources, and Methods 290 -- Index 295.…”
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Rabbinic traditions between Palestine and Babylonia

Table of Contents: “…/ Shamma Friedman -- No boundaries for the construction of boundaries: the Babylonian Talmud's emphasis on demarcation of identity / Moshe Lavee -- Midgets and mules, elephants and exilarchs: on the metamorphosis of a polemical amoraic story / Geoffrey Herman -- Rescue from transgression through death; rescue from death through transgression / Christiane Tzuberi -- A tale of two Sinais: on the reception of the Torah according to bShab 88a / Amram Tropper -- Heaven and hell: Babylonia and the land of Israel in the Bavli / Tal Ilan -- From disagreement to Talmudic discourse: progymnasmata and the evolution of a rabbinic genre / David Brodsky -- The misfortunes and adventures of Elihoreph and Ahiah in the land of Israel and in Babylonia: the metamorphosis of a narrative tradition and ways of acculturation / Reuven Kiperwasser -- Commercial law in Rome and Ctesiphon: Roman jurisconsults, rabbis and Sasanian Dastwars on risk / Yaakov Elman -- From Palestine to Babylonia and back: the place of the Bavli and the Tanhuma on the rabbinic cultural continuum / Ronit Nikolsky -- Was Rabbi Aqiva a martyr? …”
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Jews and Gender : the Challenge to Hierarchy. by Frankel, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…American Jewish Women and the Politics of History; The Jewish Response to the Third Reich: Gender at the Grassroots; Women's Bodies and the Rise of the Rabbis: The Case of Sotah; The Impact of Feminism on Rabbinic Studies: The Impossible Paradox of Reading Women into Rabbinic Literature; The Midrashic Enterprise of Contemporary Jewish Women.…”
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Religious Zionism : History and Ideology. by Schwartz, Dov

Table of Contents: “…A revolutionary consciousness -- Rabbi Reines and the foundation of the Mizrachi -- Religious-Zionist education: beginnings -- Rav Kook: an orthodox-national alternative to Religious-Zionism -- The foundation of the Chief Rabbinate -- Ha-Poʻel Ha-Mizrachi: against the exile and the bourgeoisie -- Criticizing Zionist policy -- The settlement drive -- Religious-Zionism and the Holocaust -- Israel's first years: hopes and disappointments -- From rearguard to vanguard: the struggle for greater Israel -- Religious Zionism in the United States -- Religious Zionism: present and future.…”
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Purity Texts. by Harrington, Hannah

Table of Contents: “…Outsiders; Conclusion; Appendix A: Purity Correlations in the Qumran Scrolls; Appendix B: A Comparison of the Impurity Laws of the Bible, Qumran and the Rabbis; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors.…”
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Rediscovering mathematics : you do the math / You do the math by Simonson, Shai

Table of Contents: “…-- Thinking like a mathematician- Lessons from a medieval rabbi -- What is mathematics good for? -- Three averages -- Algorithms- the unexpected role of pure mathematics -- Pythagoras' theorem and math by pictures -- Memorizing versus understanding -- Games and gambling -- Soccer balls and counting tricks -- Pizza Pi and area -- Back to the classroom.…”
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Jews and booze : becoming American in the age of prohibition by Davis, Marni

Table of Contents: “…Setting up shop: Jews becoming Americans in the nineteenth-century alcohol trade -- Do as we Israelites do: American Jews and the gilded-age temperance movement -- Kosher wine and Jewish saloons: new Jewish immigrants enter the American alcohol trade -- An "unscrupulous Jewish type of mind": Jewish alcohol entrepreneurs and their critics -- Rabbis and other bootleggers: Jews as prohibition-era alcohol entrepreneurs -- The law of the land is the law: Jews respond to the Volstead Act.…”
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Women's religious experience

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Women, sexuality, and religion / Pat Holden --Mediums, controls, and eminent men / Vieda Skultans -- Theosophy and feminism : some explorations in nineteenth century biography / Diana Burfield -- Doves and magpies : village women in the Greek Orthodox church / Lucy Rushton -- Gender and religion in a Turkish town : a comparison of two types of formal women's gatherings / Nancy Taper -- Essence and existence : women and religion in ancient Indian texts / Julia Leslie -- Women, fertility and the worship of Gods in a Hindu village / Catherine Thompson -- Women in Judaism : the fact and the fiction / Rabbi Julia Newberger -- Between law and custom : women's experience of Judaism / Jonathan Webber -- Women excluded? …”

Redefining Judaism in an age of emancipation : comparative perspectives on Samuel Holdheim (1806-1860)

Table of Contents: “…Abbreviations -- Contributors and Editors -- Introduction -- Part I: Reformer, Scholar, Political Thinker -- "Most of my Brethren Find me Unacceptable": The Controversial Career of Rabbi Samuel Holdheim -- From Nationality to Religion: Samuel Holdheim's Path to the Extreme Side of Religious Reform -- The Politics of Religion in the Thought of Samuel Holdheim -- Holdheim's Seven Years in Schwerin: The Rabbi as an Ecclesiastical Councilor -- Holdheim's Attitude Towards Karaism as Expounded in the Ma'amar ha-'Ishut -- Part II: Holdheim in the Context of the Reform Controversies -- Samuel Holdheim and the German Circumcision Debates, 1843-1876 -- Samuel Holdheim and the Prayerbook Reform in Germany -- The Problems of Moderate Reform: The History of the Berlin Liturgical Reforms, 1844-1862 -- Samuel Holdheim and Zacharias Frankel on the Legal Character of Jewish Marriage: An Overlooked Debate in Nineteenth-Century Liberal Judaism -- Part III: Radical Reform in Comparative Perspective -- Samuel Holdheim and Zacharias Frankel: Comparative Perspectives -- Holdheim and Zunz: From the Question of Rabbinic Authority to a New Definition of Ceremonial Laws -- Samuel Holdheim and Sigismund Stern: The Clash Between the Dogmatic and Historicist Approach in Classical German Reform Judaism -- True Mosaic Religion: Samuel Hirsch, Samuel Holdheim and the Reform of Judaism -- Samuel Holdheim's "Most Powerful Comrade in Conviction": David Einhorn and the Debate Concerning Jewish Universalism in the Radical Reform Movement.…”
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Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire : the poetics of power in late antiquity

Table of Contents: “…The Law of Moses and the Jews: Rabbis, Ethnic Marking, and Romanization; Part II. …”
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Giving a Diamond : Essays in Honor of Joseph Yahalom on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday

Table of Contents: “…Giving a Diamond; Copyright; Contents; Biography; Bibliography; Planets in Ancient Hebrew Literature; Translation and the Comprehensibility of Early Piyyut; Figurative Language in Early Piyyut; The Poetics of Yannai's Sixth: Between Scripture, God, and Congregation; Piyyut as Poetics, The Example of Yannai's Qedushta for Deut. 6:4; A Third Dew Shiv'Ata by Eleazar be-rabbi Qillir; Congregational Participation within the Biblical Story in the Yotser Poems of Shlomo Suliman; Concerning the Terminology of Al-Harizi's Virtues Debate.…”
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The Preservation of Youth : Essays on Health. by Maimonides, Moses

Table of Contents: “…Cover Page; Title Page; Maimonides as Physician and Medical Author; Introduction; Contents; A Letter from Rabbi Moses ben Maimon to the Sultan (Al Afdal, the Son of Saladin, 1198-1200); I About the Care of Health in General, Fit for Every Man and Stated Briefly; II The Care of Patients in the Absence of a Physician or in the Presence of a Physician Who Is Not Adequate and Not Experienced in This Science; III The Care of My Lord in Particular, According to the Condition He Complains of.…”
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Jews and Messianism in the modern era : metaphor and meaning

Table of Contents: “…Blackstone and the Petition of 1916; Birth Pangs of the Messiah: The Reflections of Two Polish Rabbis on Their Era; Realism and Messianism in Zionism and the Yishuv; Poetry and Messianism in Palestine Between the Two World Wars.…”
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Between man and God : issues in Judaic thought by Sicker, Martin

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 1 The Judaic Conception of God -- 2 The Temporal or Prophetic Paradigm -- 3 The Experience of the Divine -- 4 Man, the Universe, and the Creator -- 5 The Meaning of Human Existence -- 6 Man in the Image -- 7 Man and Providence -- 8 Man's Moral Autonomy -- 9 The Good and Evil Impulses -- 10 Divine Omniscience and Moral Autonomy -- 11 Resolving Rabbi Akiba's Paradox -- 12 The Question of Divine Justice -- 13 Theodicy in Judaic Thought -- 14 Divine Justice and Human Justice -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Spark among the ashes

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A day apart : how Jews, Christians, and Muslims find faith, freedom, and joy on the Sabbath by Ringwald, Christopher D.

Table of Contents: “…From Sinai to Sunday: the Holy Day in three religions and three families -- The birth of the Sabbath: from creation to Mount Sinai and into the Promised Land in 1100 BCE -- The fight for the Sabbath: from the monarchy to Jesus and the age of the rabbis: 1000 BCE to 200 CE -- The Lord's Day: Easter to 1600 -- Islam's Day of Judgment -- Citizens and Sabbatarians: 1600 to 1890 -- The Sabbath defeated, reborn, converted: 1890 to the present -- The window on eternity -- Give me a break: work, rest, equality, play, and place -- The promise of peace: sharing the Holy Day.…”
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Toward a Critique of Guilt : Perspectives from Law and the Humanities. by Anderson, Matthew

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Toward a Critique of Guilt: Perspectives from Law and the Humanities; Contents; List of Contributors; Editorial Board; Introduction: Guilt and Utopia; Law's Guilt about Literature; Guilty Professions: Specters of Sameness in Camus's The Fall; The Injustice of Intersex: Feminist Science Studies and the Writing of a Wrong; The Cow and the Plow: Animal Suffering, Human Guilt, and the Crime of Cruelty; ''Not a Story to Pass on:'' Sexual Violence and Ethical Act in Toni Morrison's Beloved; Was Cain Innocent? The Early Rabbis Interpret Guilt; Eternal Remorse.…”
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Faith intersections : Christians listen to-- a Muslim, a Scientologist, a Buddhist, a Mormon, and others

Table of Contents: “…Listening to a Former Christian: Darrel Harvey -- 2. Listening to a Rabbi: Matt Zimmer -- 3. Listening to a Mormon: John R. …”
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Tony Brown's journal.

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David Novak : Natural Law and Revealed Torah. by Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava, 1950-

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Literature, History, Choice : the Principle of Alternative History in Literature (S.Y. Agnon, The City with All That is Therein). by Katsman, Roman

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Elie Wiesel : Jewish, literary, and moral perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Wiesel as Interpreter of Biblical Narrative; 3. Wiesel and Rabbi Akiva; 4. Wiesel and the Stories of the Rabbis; Part 2. …”
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Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews : the Story of an Image. by Hammerman, Shaina

Table of Contents: “…The Jewish Type and "le juif typique": Typologies of Jewishness in Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob -- 3. Hard-Core Jews: Woody Allen's Religious Women and Men -- 4. …”
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Militant Zionism in America : the rise and impact of the Jabotinsky movement in the United States, 1926-1948 / Rise and impact of the Jabotinsky movement in the United States, 1926... by Medoff, Rafael, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…A Flag Is Born; 9. The Guerrilla Rabbi; 10. Explaining the Jewish Revolt to America; 11. …”
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The Holocaust's Jewish calendars : keeping time sacred, making time holy by Rosen, Alan (Alan Charles)

Table of Contents: “…English-language rendering of Rabbi Scheiner calendar.…”
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The meanings of death in Rabbinic Judaism by Kraemer, David Charles

Table of Contents: “…Preliminaries; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Glossary; List of abbreviations; 1 The presence of death; 2 Jewish death customs before the rabbis; 3 Early rabbinic death-practices; 4 Early expansions and commentaries; 5 Jewish death-practices in reality; 6 Jewish death-practices in early Byzantine Palestine; 7 Law as commentary: The Bavli on death and burial; 8 The Bavli interprets the mourner; 9 Post-Talmudic developments in Jewish death-practice; 10 A personal theological postscript; Notes; References; Index.…”
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Jewish pasts, German fictions : history, memory, and minority culture in Germany, 1824-1955 by Skolnik, Jonathan, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…: Wissenschaft des Judentums and Heinrich Heine's Der Rabbi von Bacherach (1840) -- Minority culture in the age of the nation : Jewish historical fiction in nineteenth-century Germany -- German modernism and Jewish memory : Else Lasker-Schüler's Der Wunderrabbiner von Barcelona (1921) -- "Where books are burned" : Jewish memories of inquisition and expulsion in Nazi Germany and in exile -- Epilogue : post-Holocaust echoes.…”
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Tradition in a Rootless World : Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism. by Davidman, Lynn

Table of Contents: “…Society; Appendix A: Interview Guide for Ba'alot Teshuvah; Appendix B: Interview Guide for Rabbis; Appendix C: Questionnaire for Bais Chana Women; Notes; Glossary; References; Index.…”
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