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    American Jewish Studies

    Cover of Timeless Travels: Tales of Mystery, Humor, Intrigue and Enchantment
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    Time­less Trav­els: Tales of Mys­tery, Humor, Intrigue and Enchantment
    Joseph Roten­berg
    Cover of Counting on America: A Holocaust Memoir of Terror, Chutzpah, Romance and Escape
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    Count­ing on Amer­i­ca: A Holo­caust Mem­oir of Ter­ror, Chutz­pah, Romance and Escape
    Kurt Reiner and Gary Reiner
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    Inter­view: Jonathan Weisman

    Michael N. Dobkowski
    March 14, 2018
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    Chil­dren’s
    Irv­ing Berlin: The Immi­grant Boy Who Made Amer­i­ca Sing
    Nancy Churnin; James Rey Sanchez, illus.
    Essay

    The For­got­ten Jew­ish Ele­ment of the Wom­en’s Lib­er­a­tion Movement

    Joyce Antler
    March 7, 2018
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    Jew­ish Rad­i­cal Fem­i­nism: Voic­es from the Women’s Lib­er­a­tion Movement
    Joyce Antler
    Cover of Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s
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    Black Pow­er, Jew­ish Pol­i­tics: Rein­vent­ing the Alliance in the 1960s
    Marc Dollinger
    Cover of Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America
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    Ambiva­lent Embrace: Jew­ish Upward Mobil­i­ty in Post­war America
    Rachel Kranson
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    Poet­ry
    Line Study of a Motel Clerk
    Alli­son Pitinii Davis
    Essay

    Five His­toric Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ties You’ve (Prob­a­bly) Nev­er Heard Of

    Shari Rabin
    December 19, 2017
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    The Jews of Key West: Smug­glers, Cig­ar Mak­ers, and Rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies (1823−1969)
    Arlo Haskell
    Video

    30 Days, 30 Authors: Shari Rabin

    Shari Rabin
    December 8, 2017
    Essay

    30 Days, 30 Authors: Rebec­ca Ein­stein Schorr

    Rebec­ca Ein­stein Schorr
    November 24, 2017
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    Jews on the Fron­tier: Reli­gion and Mobil­i­ty in Nine­teenth-Cen­tu­ry America
    Shari Rabin
    Essay

    On Jew­ish Com­e­dy and Amer­i­can Jew­ish Success

    Jere­my Dauber
    November 3, 2017
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    City on a Hill­top: Amer­i­can Jews and the Israeli Set­tler Movement
    Sara Yael Hirschhorn
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