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Tomer Persico is a Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley. His most recent work in English is In God's Image: How Western Civilization Was Shaped by a Revolutionary Idea (NYU Press, 2025).

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Tomer Persico is a Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley. His most recent work in English is In God's Image: How Western Civilization Was Shaped by a Revolutionary Idea (NYU Press, 2025).

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