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Book Title: Bad Rabbi : and Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Topic: Journalism, Jewish Studies, Jewish
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2017
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 14.2 Oz
Author: Eddy Portnoy
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Book Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
