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Book Title: Saturn's Jews
Item Length: 9.2in
Item Height: 0.5in
Item Width: 6.1in
Author: Moshe Idel
Publication Name: Saturn's Jews : ON the Witches' Sabbat and Sabbateanism
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication Year: 2011
Series: The Robert and Arlene Kogod Library of Judaic Studies
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.9 Oz
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
