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Fiction
Amer­i­can Moses
Stephen Witt
Nonfiction
Lethal Provo­ca­tion: The Con­stan­tine Mur­ders and the Pol­i­tics of French Algeria
Joshua Cole
Fiction
What Makes Us
Rafi Mit­tle­fehldt
Nonfiction
Colo­nial­ism and the Jews
Ethan B Katz, Lisa Moses Leff, Maud S. Man­del (edi­tors)
Nonfiction
Liv­ing in Sil­ver­a­do: Secret Jews in the Sil­ver Min­ing Towns of Colo­nial Mexico
David M. Gitlitz
Nonfiction
Race, Rights, & Recog­ni­tion: Jew­ish Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture since 1969
Dean J. Franco
Nonfiction
Israeli Folk Nar­ra­tives: Set­tle­ment, Immi­gra­tion, Ethnicity
Haya Bar-Itzhak
Nonfiction
You Need a School­house: Book­er T. Wash­ing­ton, Julius Rosen­wald, and the Build­ing of Schools for the Seg­re­gat­ed South
Stephanie Deutsch
Nonfiction
Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holo­caust America
Eric J. Sundquist
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Lib­er­ty on 23rd Street
Jacque­line B. Glasthal; Alan Rein­gold, illus.
Nonfiction
Act­ing Jew­ish: Nego­ti­at­ing Eth­nic­i­ty on the Amer­i­can Stage and Screen
Hen­ry Bial
Nonfiction
The Arab Jews: A Post­colo­nial Read­ing of Nation­al­ism, Reli­gion, and Ethnicity
Yehou­da Shenhav
Fiction
Joshua: A Brook­lyn Tale
Andrew Kane
Nonfiction
Race and Reli­gion Among the Cho­sen Peo­ples of Crown Heights
Hen­ry Goldschmidt
Children's
Always an Olivia: A Remark­able Fam­i­ly History
Car­o­livia Herron
Nonfiction
In the Shad­ow of Race: Jews, Lati­nos, and Immi­grant Pol­i­tics in the Unit­ed States
Vic­to­ria Hattam
Nonfiction
The Shift: Israel-Pales­tine From Bor­der Strug­gle to Eth­nic Conflict
Men­achem Klein
Nonfiction
The Black Jews of Africa: His­to­ry, Reli­gion, Identity
Edith Brud­er
Nonfiction
Klezmer Amer­i­ca: Jew­ish­ness, Eth­nic­i­ty, Modernity
Jonathan Freed­man
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Levit­town: Two Fam­i­lies, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civ­il Rights in Amer­i­ca’s Leg­endary Suburb
David Kush­n­er
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