Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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Note on Spellings and Transliteration |
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About the Authors |
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Chapter 1 Ancient Israel and Other Ancestors |
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1 | (24) |
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Rethinking the Origins of the Ancient Israelites |
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2 | (8) |
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Tracking the Historical Israel |
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10 | (13) |
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The End of Egyptian Domination and the Emergence of an Israelite Monarchy |
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11 | (3) |
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14 | (4) |
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Surviving Mesopotamian Domination |
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18 | (2) |
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20 | (3) |
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From the Historical Israel to Biblical Israel |
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A Confirmable Chronology of Biblical Events |
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10 | (6) |
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16 | (1) |
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17 | (5) |
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Where Does God Come From? |
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22 | (3) |
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24 | (1) |
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24 | (1) |
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Chapter 2 Becoming the People of the Book |
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25 | (24) |
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Judahite Culture Under Foreign Rule |
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26 | (4) |
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Stage I How the Texts Now in the Bible Came to Be |
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30 | (5) |
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Stage II How Biblical Literature Became a Sacred Text |
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35 | (5) |
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A Crash Course in the Jewish Bible |
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40 | (7) |
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The Bible and the Birth of Jewish Culture |
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How Does the Hebrew Bible Differ from Other Ancient Near Eastern Texts? |
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33 | (1) |
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A Snapshot of the Hebrew Bible in the Making |
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34 | (5) |
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Biblical Stories the Bible Doesn't Tell |
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39 | (3) |
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The Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant Biblical Canons |
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42 | (3) |
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The Terms of Israel's Relationship with God |
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45 | (4) |
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48 | (1) |
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48 | (1) |
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Chapter 3 Jews and Greeks |
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49 | (21) |
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First Encounters: The Beginnings of Hellenization Under Ptolemaic Rule |
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51 | (6) |
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Hellenization and Its Discontents in Seleucid Palestine |
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57 | (5) |
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The Divergent Trajectories of Jewish Tradition |
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62 | (5) |
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The Afterlife of Jewish Hellenistic Culture |
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54 | (5) |
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Is Martyrdom a Jewish Invention? |
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59 | (5) |
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64 | (2) |
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Did Someone Conspire to Cover up the Dead Sea Scrolls? |
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66 | (4) |
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68 | (1) |
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69 | (1) |
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Chapter 4 Between Caesar and God |
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70 | (22) |
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71 | (4) |
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Resistance and Its Aftermath |
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75 | (7) |
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Ruptures and Revisions in Early Jewish Culture |
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Christianity's Emergence from Jewish Culture |
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82 | (7) |
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Surviving the Temple's Destruction |
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76 | (2) |
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The Mystery of Masada's Final Moments |
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78 | (2) |
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80 | (4) |
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The Quest for the Historical Jesus |
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84 | (2) |
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A Supernatural Who's Who for Early Jewish Culture |
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86 | (6) |
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91 | (1) |
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91 | (1) |
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Chapter 5 Rabbinic Revelations |
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92 | (24) |
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Late Antique Jewish Culture Without the Rabbis |
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92 | (5) |
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Putting the Rabbis into the Picture |
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97 | (11) |
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The Emergence of Rabbinic Culture |
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97 | (3) |
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Emerging Rabbinic Authority in the Jewish Community |
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100 | (4) |
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104 | (4) |
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The Rabbinization of Jewish Culture |
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What Became of the Priests After the Temple's Destruction? |
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99 | (3) |
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Female Rabbis in Late Antiquity? |
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102 | (4) |
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Adrift in the Sea of Talmud |
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106 | (4) |
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Cracking the Bible's Code Rabbinically |
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110 | (3) |
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Ten Useful Rabbinic Terms |
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113 | (3) |
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114 | (1) |
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114 | (2) |
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Chapter 6 Under the Crescent |
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116 | (31) |
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Jewish History in the Islamic Middle Ages |
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118 | (14) |
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118 | (1) |
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The Legal Basis of Jewish Life Under Islam |
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119 | (2) |
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The Umayyad Caliphate and the Expansion of Muslim Rule |
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121 | (1) |
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Abbassid Rule and the Rise and Fall of Geonic Authority |
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122 | (4) |
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Glimpses of Jewish History in Muslim Palestine |
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126 | (1) |
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The Community of the Cairo Genizah |
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127 | (1) |
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The "Golden Age" of Muslim Spain |
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127 | (5) |
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Jewish Lives Under Islamic Rule |
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132 | (4) |
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Jewish Thought and Imagination During Islamic Rule |
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136 | (8) |
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Afterword: The Reverberations of Jewish---Islamic Culture |
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120 | (2) |
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122 | (3) |
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The Geonic Standardization of Jewish Prayer |
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125 | (7) |
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Ten Significant Dates for Jewish History During the Islamic Middle Ages |
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132 | (2) |
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134 | (4) |
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On How to Become a Medieval Jewish Philosopher |
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138 | (4) |
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The Role of Poetry in Medieval Jewish Society |
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142 | (5) |
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145 | (1) |
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145 | (2) |
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Chapter 7 Under the Cross |
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147 | (27) |
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148 | (4) |
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The Blood Libel and Other Lethal Accusations |
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152 | (1) |
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153 | (1) |
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Increased Hostility from the Church |
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154 | (3) |
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157 | (3) |
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160 | (1) |
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161 | (2) |
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163 | (1) |
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Medieval German-Speaking Europe |
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164 | (2) |
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166 | (1) |
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Jewish Lives Under Christian Rule |
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167 | (3) |
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Jewish Thought and Imagination in the Christian Realm |
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170 | (2) |
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Blaming the Jews for the Black Death |
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The Fate of Forced Converts |
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151 | (5) |
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156 | (7) |
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163 | (8) |
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Banning Jewish Philosophy |
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171 | (3) |
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173 | (1) |
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173 | (1) |
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Chapter 8 A Jewish Renaissance |
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174 | (30) |
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Iberian Jewry Between Inquisition and Expulsion |
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179 | (4) |
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The Sephardi Jews of the Ottoman Empire |
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183 | (6) |
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Ottoman Safed in the Sixteenth Century |
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189 | (4) |
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Between Ghetto and Renaissance: The Jews of Early Modern Italy |
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193 | (5) |
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198 | (2) |
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Christian Humanism, the Protestant Reformation, and the Jews |
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178 | (12) |
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The Hebrew Printing Revolution |
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176 | (28) |
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203 | (1) |
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203 | (1) |
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Chapter 9 New Worlds, East and West |
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204 | (27) |
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In the Nobles' Republic: Jews in Early Modern Eastern Europe |
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204 | (3) |
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The Jewish Community in Poland---Lithuania |
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207 | (4) |
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Early Modern Ashkenazi Culture |
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211 | (2) |
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The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), Mercantilism, and the Rise of the "Court Jews" |
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213 | (4) |
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Questions of Identity: Conversos and the "Port Jews" of the Atlantic World |
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217 | (10) |
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Shabbatai Zvi: A Jewish Messiah Converts to Islam |
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Glickl of Hameln and Her Zikhroynes |
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214 | (4) |
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218 | (7) |
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The Lost Tribes of Israel |
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225 | (6) |
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229 | (1) |
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229 | (2) |
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Chapter 10 The State of the Jews, The Jews and the State |
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231 | (29) |
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Changing Boundaries in the Eighteenth Century |
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233 | (7) |
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Jews Through Jewish and Non-Jewish Eyes |
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240 | (4) |
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Jews and the French Revolution |
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244 | (1) |
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245 | (2) |
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247 | (3) |
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Jewish Emancipation in Southern and Central Europe |
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250 | (2) |
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Status of the Jews Under Ottoman Rule |
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252 | (1) |
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Russian Jewry and the State |
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Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia and the Jews |
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234 | (4) |
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Jews and Boxing in Georgian England |
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238 | (11) |
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An Old Language for a New Society: Judah Monis' Hebrew Grammar |
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249 | (11) |
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258 | (1) |
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258 | (2) |
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Chapter 11 Modern Transformations |
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260 | (34) |
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260 | (1) |
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261 | (1) |
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261 | (4) |
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265 | (2) |
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267 | (1) |
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Israel Salanter and the Musar Movement |
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268 | (1) |
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The Haskalah in Western Europe |
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269 | (3) |
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270 | (1) |
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270 | (2) |
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Educational Reforms in Berlin |
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272 | (1) |
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Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem |
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272 | (1) |
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Literature of the Berlin Haskalah |
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273 | (1) |
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274 | (1) |
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The Haskalah in Eastern Europe |
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275 | (3) |
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275 | (2) |
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277 | (1) |
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278 | (4) |
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Wissenschaft des Judentums (Scientific Study of Judaism) |
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282 | (2) |
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The Rise of Modern Jewish Historiography |
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284 | (1) |
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The Rise of Reform Judaism |
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285 | (3) |
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287 | (1) |
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288 | (2) |
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Positive-Historical Judaism |
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290 | (1) |
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Religious Reforms Beyond Germany |
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290 | (1) |
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New Synagogues and the Architecture of Emancipation |
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280 | (2) |
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Linguistic Border Crossing: The Creation of Esperanto |
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282 | (1) |
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The New Israelite Hospital in Hamburg |
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283 | (11) |
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293 | (1) |
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293 | (1) |
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Chapter 12 The Politics of Being Jewish |
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294 | (40) |
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298 | (15) |
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298 | (2) |
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300 | (2) |
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302 | (2) |
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304 | (4) |
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308 | (1) |
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309 | (4) |
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The Rise of Modern Jewish Politics |
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314 | (10) |
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Philanthropy and Acculturation |
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324 | (2) |
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The Pursuit of Happiness: Coming to America |
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295 | (31) |
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Bertha Pappenheim and the League of Jewish Women |
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326 | (1) |
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A Meal to Remember: "The Trefa Banquet" |
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327 | (7) |
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332 | (1) |
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332 | (2) |
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Chapter 13 A World Upended |
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334 | (40) |
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334 | (4) |
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Jews on the Eastern Front |
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335 | (1) |
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Jews on the Western Front |
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335 | (2) |
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337 | (1) |
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The Jews of Interwar Europe |
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338 | (10) |
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Interwar Jewry: The Numbers |
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339 | (1) |
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Soviet Russia Between the Wars |
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340 | (4) |
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344 | (2) |
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346 | (1) |
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347 | (1) |
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The Balkans Between the Wars |
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347 | (1) |
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Jewish Cultural Life in Interwar Central Europe |
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348 | (9) |
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Interwar Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany |
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348 | (3) |
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Interwar Jewish Culture in Poland |
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351 | (6) |
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Zionist Diplomacy Between the Wars |
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Ze'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky and Revisionist Zionism |
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360 | (1) |
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361 | (1) |
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Mandate Palestine Between the Wars |
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362 | (5) |
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Tensions with the Palestinian Arabs |
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367 | (2) |
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The Jews of the Eastern Levant and Muslim Lands |
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352 | (4) |
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356 | (2) |
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358 | (4) |
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362 | (12) |
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373 | (1) |
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373 | (1) |
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374 | (32) |
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The Jews in Hitler's World View |
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374 | (1) |
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Phase I The Jews in Nazi Germany (1933-1939) |
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375 | (11) |
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378 | (2) |
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380 | (1) |
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The Economics of Persecution |
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381 | (5) |
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Phase II The Destruction of European Jewry (1939-1945) |
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386 | (16) |
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386 | (8) |
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394 | (4) |
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398 | (1) |
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Awareness of Genocide and Rescue Attempts |
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399 | (3) |
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The Model Concentration Camp: Theresienstadt |
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Resistance in the Vilna Ghetto |
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400 | (4) |
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404 | (2) |
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405 | (1) |
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405 | (1) |
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Chapter 15 Into the Present |
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In the Aftermath of the Holocaust |
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407 | (2) |
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The Rise of the State of Israel |
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407 | (2) |
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409 | (10) |
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409 | (5) |
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414 | (5) |
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419 | (10) |
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425 | (4) |
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Eastern Europe After the Shoah |
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429 | (6) |
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429 | (4) |
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433 | (1) |
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434 | (1) |
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435 | (1) |
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Western Europe After the Shoah |
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435 | (3) |
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435 | (2) |
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437 | (1) |
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Other Western European Countries |
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438 | (1) |
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The Jews of the Southern Hemisphere |
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438 | (3) |
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408 | (7) |
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415 | (7) |
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Rebelling Against American Jewish Suburbia |
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422 | (2) |
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424 | (13) |
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Jews and the Invention of Post-Modernism in Postwar France |
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441 | (1) |
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Timeline of Jewish History |
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Glossary |
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1 | (1) |
Text Credits |
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1 | (1) |
Photo Credits |
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1 | (1) |
Map Credits |
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Index |
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