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• What We Jews Believe (Cincinnati: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1931), by Samuel Solomon Cohon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at ntslibrary.com
• Minhag Amerika: The Daily Prayers for American Israelites As Revised in Conference (Cincinnati: Bloch and Co., c1872), ed. by Isaac Mayer Wise (PDF at americanjewisharchives.org)

• Claude Montefiore and Christianity (Atlanta: Scholars Press, c2020), by Maurice Gerald Bowler (multiple formats at Brown)

• Reminiscences (Cincinnati: Leo Wise and Co., 1901), by Isaac Mayer Wise, ed. by David Philipson (PDF at americanjewisharchives.org)

• The Eternal Dissident: Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman and the Radical Imperative to Think and Act (Oakland: University of California Press, c2018), by Leonard I. Beerman, ed. by David N. Myers (multiple formats with commentary at luminosoa.org)

• Annual Report of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, by Union of American Hebrew Congregations (partial serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Jesus an Essene (only book in a projected "Christ, Christians, and Christianity" series; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1895), by Edward Planta Nesbit (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Jesus, the Last Great Initiate (Chicago: Yogi Publication Society, ca. 1908), by Edouard Schuré, trans. by Fred Rothwell (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Lessons in Tanya, by Shneur Zalman of Lyady, ed. by Uri Kaploun, trans. by Levy Wineberg and Sholom B. Wineberg, contrib. by Yosef Ṿaynberg (HTML with commentary at chabad.org)
• Anticipating the Redemption, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson
  • Volume 1: HTML at chabad.org
  • Volume 2: HTML at chabad.org
• Attaining Sagacity: Reflections on Reaching the Age of Sixty, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson, trans. by Eliyahu Touger (HTML at chabad.org)
• The Tree of Life (Kuntres Etz HaChayim): A Classic Chassidic Treatise on the Mystic Core of Spiritual Vitality, by Shalom Dov Baer Schneersohn, trans. by Eliyahu Touger (HTML at sichosinenglish.org)
• Defiance and Devotion: Selected Chassidic Discourses Dating from the Arrest and Liberation of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, in 1927, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, ed. by Uri Kaploun, trans. by Eliyahu Touger (HTML at sichos-in-english.org)
• Yalkut Bar Mitzvah: An Anthology of Laws and Customs of a Bar Mitzvah in the Chabad Tradition, by Nissan Dovid Dubov (HTML at chabad.org)
• I Will Write It in Their Hearts: A Treasure of Letters from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson: Selections from Ighos Kodesh: Volume I (only extant volume), by Menachem Mendel Schneerson and Eliyahu Touger (HTML at sichosinenglish.org)
• Living with Moshiach: An Anthology of Brief Homilies on the Weekly Torah Readings and Festivals, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson and Jacob Immanuel Schochet (HTML at chabad.org)

• Branches of the Chassidic Menorah: Biographical Stories, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn
  • volume 1: HTML at chabad.org
  • volume 2: HTML at chabad.org
• The Golden Dynasty: The Lives and Times of the Rizhniner Rebbes, by Yizroel Friedman (frame-dependent HTML at nishmas.org)
• The Making of Chassidim: A Letter Written by the Previous Lubavitcher, Rebbe Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, trans. by Shimon Neubort (HTML at chabad.org)

• In the Garden of the Torah, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson (HTML at sichosinenglish.org)
• Proceeding Together, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson
  • Volume 1: HTML at sichosinenglish.org
  • Volume 2: HTML at sichosinenglish.org
  • Volume 3: HTML at sichosinenglish.org
• Timeless Patterns in Time, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson and Eliyahu Touger (HTML at sichosinenglish.org)

• Links in the Chassidic Legacy: Biographical Sketches that First Appeared in the Classic Columns of HaTamim, trans. by Shimon Neubort (HTML with commentary at chabad.org)
• The Golden Dynasty: The Lives and Times of the Rizhniner Rebbes, by Yizroel Friedman (frame-dependent HTML at nishmas.org)
• Branches of the Chassidic Menorah: Biographical Stories, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn
  • volume 1: HTML at chabad.org
  • volume 2: HTML at chabad.org
• The Making of Chassidim: A Letter Written by the Previous Lubavitcher, Rebbe Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, trans. by Shimon Neubort (HTML at chabad.org)

• To Know and To Care, by Eliyahu Touger and Malka Touger
  • volume 1: HTML at chabad.org
  • volume 2: HTML at chabad.org

• A Prince in Prison: The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe's Account of His Incarceration in Stalinist Russia in 1927: An Extract from Likkutei Dibburim, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, trans. by Uri Kaploun (HTML at chabad.org)

• The Maggid of Mezritch, by Yitzchak Dorfman (frame-dependent HTML at nishmas.org)

• The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of Modern Diaspora, by Joel Beinin (HTML at UC Press)

• Jewthink, by Avi Shafran, ed. by Carl David Goldin (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Key Jewish Facts, by Nissan Dovid Dubov (HTML with commentary at chabad.org)

• Rabbis and Their Community: Studies in the Eastern European Orthodox Rabbinate in Montreal, 1896-1930 (Co-published by the Concordia University Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies; Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007), by Ira Robinson (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Pharisaism and Jesus (New York: Philosophical Library, c1963), by Samuel Umen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pharisees: The Sociological Background of Their Faith (second edition, 2 volumes; Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1940), by Louis Finkelstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Truth About the Pharisees (New York: Intercollegiate Menorah Association, c1925), by R. Travers Herford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• What the World Owes to the Pharisees (London: Allen and Unwin, c1919), by R. Travers Herford, contrib. by John Monash and Herbert M. Adler (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Reconstructing Jewish Education (New York: Reconstructionist Press, 1957), by Michael Alper (page images at HathiTrust)

• Philo Judeaus, on the Contemplative Life: Translation, Notes, and an Essay on Philo's Religious Ideas (Indiana University study #52; 1922), by Philo of Alexandria, ed. by Frank William Tilden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ask Now of the Days That Are Past (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2005), by Eliezer Segal (PDF at University of Calgary)
• Passing on the Faith: Transforming Traditions for the Next Generation of Jews, Christians, and Muslims (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006), ed. by James Heft (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• A Handbook of Judaism, As Professed and Practiced Through the Ages (second edition, enlarged; Chicago: L. M. Stein, 1953), by Meyer Waxman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Handbook of Judaism, As Professed and Practiced Through the Ages (New York: Bloch Pub. Co., 1947), by Meyer Waxman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Essential Agus: The Writings of Jacob B. Agus (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Jacob B. Agus, ed. by Steven T. Katz (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• The Jewish Utopia (Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press, 1932), by Michael Higger (multiple formats at archive.org)
• What We Jews Believe (Cincinnati: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1931), by Samuel Solomon Cohon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at ntslibrary.com
• The Essence of Judaism: For Teachers and Pupils, and for Self-Instruction (Cincinnati: Bloch and Co., 1861), by Isaac Mayer Wise (PDF at americanjewisharchives.org)
• The Genius of Judaism (London: Edward Moxon, 1833), by Isaac Disraeli (page images at Google)
• The Jews and the Mosaic Law, by Isaac Leeser, contrib. by Professor of Christianity (HTML at jewish-history.com)
• The Jews and the Mosaic Law (Philadelphia: Printed for the author, ca. 1834), by Isaac Leeser, contrib. by Professor of Christianity
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Judaism, by Israel Abrahams (Gutenberg text)
• Judaism: Its Doctrines and Duties (revised edition of The Essence of Judaism; Cincinnati and Chicago: L. Wise and Co., ca. 1873), by Isaac Mayer Wise (page images at HathiTrust)
• Judaism: Its Doctrines and Duties (10th edition; Cincinnati and Chicago: Bloch Pub. and Printing Co., 1888), by Isaac Mayer Wise (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Thoughts on Judaism (London: R. B. Johnson, 1904), by Lilian Helen Montagu
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Abrahamic Faiths, Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts (1997), ed. by Paul Peachey, George F. McLean, and John Kromkowski (PDF at crvp.org)
• The Wandering Jew (1877), by Isaac Mayer Wise (PDF at americanjewisharchives.org)
• Biblical and Semitic Studies: Critical and Historical Essays by the Members of the Semitic and Biblical Faculty of Yale University, contrib. by Edward Lewis Curtis, Charles Foster Kent, Frank Knight Sanders, Frank Chamberlin Porter, Warren Joseph Moulton, Benjamin Wisner Bacon, and C. C. Torrey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Die Christliche Religion, Mit Einschluss der Israelitisch-Jüdischen Religion (Kultur der Gegenwart v1, pt. 4; 2 volumes in German; Berlin and Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1906), contrib. by Julius Wellhausen, Adolf Jülicher, Adolf von Harnack, G. Nathanael Bonwetsch, Karl Müller, Franz Xaver von Funk, Ernst Troeltsch, Joseph Pohle, Joseph Mausbach, Cornelius Krieg, Wilhelm Herrmann, Reinhold Seeberg, Wilhelm Faber, and Heinrich Julius Holtzmann
  • Part 1 (Geschichte der Christlichen Religion): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part 2 (Systematische Christliche Theologie): multiple formats at archive.org
• The Guide for the Perplexed (second edition, 1904), by Moses Maimonides, trans. by M. Friedländer
  • multiple formats at CCEL
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
• Moreh Nevukhim (Doctor Perplexorum): oder, Theologisch-Philosophische Eroerterungen über die Ueberinstimmung der Mosaischen und Rabbinischen Religionsquellen mit der Philosophie (in Hebrew with German commentary; Krotoschin: Gedruckt bei B.L. Monasch, 1839), by Moses Maimonides, ed. by Shmuel Ibn Tibbon and R. J. Fürstenthal (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Sheaf of Leaves (Chicago: Printed privately, 1911), by Hannah G. Solomon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Religionssoziologie (3 volumes in German; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1920-1921), by Max Weber
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Hinduismus und Buddhismus): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Das Antike Judentum): multiple formats at archive.org
• A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ (5 volumes in 2 divisions; T. and T. Clark, 1890), by Emil Schürer, trans. by John Macpherson, Sophia Taylor, and Peter Christie (all volumes, and volumes from other editions: page images at HathiTrust)

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