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The library at the Center for Cultural Judaism is accessible to the general public and includes a well-stocked section with books for purchase. Please contact the Center for details.

"Women Who Would be Rabbis: A History of Women's Ordination"

By Nadell, Pamela Susan
Beacon Press, 1999, Paperback, 320 pp., ISBN: 0807036498, $18.00

Women Who Would Be Rabbis is a 1998 National Jewish Book Award finalist.

"Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind"

By Nadler, Steven
Oxford University Press, 2006, Hardcover, 190 pp., ISBN: 0199247072, $45.00

"Spinoza: A Life"

By Nadler, Steven
Cambridge University Press, 2001, Paperback, 422 pp., ISBN: 0521002931, $27.99

Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also arguably the most radical and controversial.

"Naming Names"

By Navasky, Victor S.
Hill and Wang, 2003, Paperback, 528 pp., ISBN: 0809001837, $17.00

Half a century later, the investigation of Hollywood radicals by the House Committee on Un-American Activities still haunts the public conscience.

"Israel, the United States and American Judaism "

By Naveh, Eyal

"Archeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land"

By Negev, Avraham and Shimon Gibson
Continuum, 2003, Hardcover, 512 pp., ISBN: 082641527X, $32.95

More than 800 entries describe archaeological discoveries by site and detail life in the biblical period.

"No Star Too Beautiful: A Treasury of Yiddish Stories"

By Neugroschel, Joachim (Ed.)
W.W. Norton, 2004, Paperback, 736 pp., ISBN: 0393326179, $18.95

First developed and written in medieval Germany, Yiddish eventually became the everyday speech of Jews all over Europe and later globally.

"The Shtetl: A Creative Anthology of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe"

By Neugroschel, Joachim (Ed.)
Overlook, 2001, Paperback, 584 pp., ISBN: 0879513802, $21.95

This collection of Yiddish classics, some never before translated into English, offers the full and wonderfully vivid panoply of shtetl life from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.

"Encyclopaedia of Judaism Second Edition"

By Neusner, Jacob, Alan J. Avery-Peck, and William Scott Green (Eds.)
Brill Academic Publishers, 2005, Hardcover, 3088 pp.(four volumes), ISBN: 900414787X, $399.00

This new edition of the prize-winning Encyclopaedia of Judaism is nearly double the size of the original three-volume edition.

"Challenge of Post-Zionism: Alternatives to Fundamentalist Politics in Israel, The"

By Nimni, Ephraim
Zed Books, 2003, Paperback, 224 pp., ISBN: 1856498948, $25.00

This volume presents the emerging debate, known as Post-Zionism, about the future and characteristics of Israel.

"Max Nordau: A Biography"

By Nordau, Anna and Max
Nordau Committee, 1943, 440 pp., Out of print

"Interpretation of History, The "

By Nordau, Max and B. Netanyahu (Intro.)
Moffat, Yard and Co., 1910, Hardcover, 419 pp., Out of print

"Max Nordau to his People: A Summons and a Challenge"

By Nordau, Max and B. Netanyahu (Intro.)
Scopus Publishing Co., 1941, 228 pp., Out of print

"Morals and the Evolution of Man"

By Nordau, Max and B. Netanyahu (Intro.)
Gordon Press Publishers, 1976, 278 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0849022800

Philosopher, writer, and physician, Nordau was co-founder of the World Zionist Organization.

"Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide"

By Norris, Pippa and Ronald Inglehart
Cambridge University Press, 2004, Paperback, 348 pp., ISBN: 0521548721, $24.95

The belief that religion was dying became the conventional wisdom in the social sciences during most of the twentieth century.

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