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D ALIN,DAVID G. AND JOHN F. ROTHMANN. Icon of Evil: Hitler’s Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam. New York: Random House, 2008.

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D ECTER,JONATHAN P. Iberian Jewish Literature: Between al-Andalus and Christian Europe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.

D IAMANT,ANITA AND K AREN KUSHNER. How to Raise a Jewish Child: A Practical Handbook for Family Life. (Formerly How to Be Jewish Parent.) New York: Schocken Books, 2008.

D IDI-HUBERMAN,GEORGES. Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz. Translated by Shane B. Lillis. Chicago: University of Chi- cago Press, 2008.

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EBER,IRENE. Chinese and Jews: Encounters between Cultures. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2008.

EBER,IRENE, ED. AND TRANS. Voices from Shanghai: Jewish Exiles in War- time China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

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FITZMYER,JOSEPH, A. A Guide to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Litera- ture. Revised and expanded edition. Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publish- ing Company, 2008.

FLEMING,K.E.Greece: A Jewish History. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008.

FONROBERT,CHARLOTTE ELISHEVA AND M ARTIN S. JAFFEE, EDS. The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature. The Cambridge Companions to Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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FREADMAN,RICHARD. This Crazy Thing a Life: Australian Jewish Autobi- ography. Crawley: University of Western Australia Press, 2007.

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G ANS,CHAIM. A Just Zionism: On the Morality of the Jewish State. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

G ELANDER,SHAMAI. Two Peoples into One: Belief, Religion and Cultural Environment in Israel and Judah in Biblical Narratives and Historiography. (He- brew). The Biblical Encyclopaedia Library 25. Jerusalem: Bialik Insti- tute, 2008.

G ELLER,JAY. On Freud’s Jewish Body: Mitigating Circumcision. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007.

G ERSHMAN,NORMAN H. Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews in World War II. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2008.

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