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Nonfiction
The Catskills: Its History and How It Changed America
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Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was
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Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century
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One Nation, Under Gods: A New American History
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I Didn’t Tell Them Anything: The Wartime Secrets of an American Girl
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Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City
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The William Marvy Company of St. Paul: Keeping Barber Shops Classic
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The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South
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Jewish New York: A History and Guide to Neighborhoods, Synagogues, and Eateries
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Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care About Jews, the South, and Civil Rights
Visual Arts
From Selfie to Groupie
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Social Concern and Left Politics in Jewish American Art, 1880 – 1940
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Transnational Traditions: New Perspectives on American Jewish History
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American Ghost: The True Story of a Family’s Haunted Past
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The B‑Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song
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That Pride of Race and Character: The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South
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Lincoln and the Jews: A History
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Urban Origins of American Judaism
Poetry
The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry
Nonfiction
American Judaism: A History