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    Car­ol Poll

    Car­ol Poll, Ph.D., is the retired Chair of the Social Sci­ences Depart­ment and Pro­fes­sor of Soci­ol­o­gy at the Fash­ion Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy of the State Uni­ver­si­ty of New York. Her areas of inter­est include the soci­ol­o­gy of race and eth­nic rela­tions, the soci­ol­o­gy of mar­riage, fam­i­ly and gen­der roles and the soci­ol­o­gy of Jews.
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    Jeremy Stolow
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    Pamela S. Nadell, Jonathan D. Sarna and Lance J. Sussman, eds.
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    Jew­ish Stud­ies: A The­o­ret­i­cal Introduction
    Andrew Bush
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    Simon J. Bronner, ed.
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