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Essay

A New Vision of Childhood: The Jewish Innovators Who Defined Toymaking in the US

Michael Kimmel

February 16, 2026

Cover of Fanny's Big Idea: How Jewish Book Week was Born

Fanny’s Big Idea: How Jewish Book Week was Born

Richard Michelson

Cover of Jewish Giving: Philanthropy and the Shaping of American Jewish Life

Jewish Giving: Philanthropy and the Shaping of American Jewish Life

Jack Wertheimer

Cover of Imagining Early American Jews

Imagining Early American Jews

Michael Hoberman

Cover of Antisemitism, an American Tradition

Antisemitism, an American Tradition

Pamela S. Nadell

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Jewtina y Co. Reading List: Latin Jewish Stories

Violeta Stolpen

October 13, 2025

Cover of Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia

Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia

Edward Berenson

Cover of Ketubah Renaissance: The Artful Modern Revival of the Jewish Marriage Contract

Ketubah Renaissance: The Artful Modern Revival of the Jewish Marriage Contract

Michael Shapiro

Cover of The State of American Jewry: New Insights and Scholarship

The State of American Jewry: New Insights and Scholarship

Frederick E. Greenspahn

Essay

A Jewish Mother, Japanese American Incarceration, and the Impact of World War II Euphemisms

Tracy Slater

July 16, 2025

Cover of American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews

American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews

Andrew Porwancher

Cover of Ben Hecht's Jewish Theatre of Protest

Ben Hecht’s Jewish Theatre of Protest

Cover of Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery

Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery

Richard Kreitner

Cover of Living in Both Worlds: Modern Orthodox Judaism in the United States, 1945–2025

Living in Both Worlds: Modern Orthodox Judaism in the United States, 1945 – 2025

Lawrence Grossman

Cover of For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today

For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today

Elliot Cosgrove

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Jewish Life in Patagonia

Jessica Ruetter

September 23, 2024