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American Jewish Studies

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Dias­po­ra Boy: Comics on Cri­sis in Amer­i­ca and Israel
Eli Val­ley
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Jew­ish In America
Richard L. Rubin
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Amer­i­can Jew­ry: Tran­scend­ing the Euro­pean Experience
Christian Wiese and Cornelia Wilhelm
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Who Will Lead Us?: The Sto­ry of Five Hasidic Dynas­ties in America
Samuel C. Heilman
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Set in Stone: Amer­i­ca’s Embrace of the Ten Commandments
Jenna Weissman Joselit
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Hitler in Los Ange­les: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hol­ly­wood and America
Steven J. Ross
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Gertrude Weil: Jew­ish Pro­gres­sive in the New South
Leonard Rogoff
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City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic His­to­ry of Immi­grant New York
Tyler Anbinder
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An Empire of Their Own: How Jews Invent­ed Hollywood
Neal Gabler
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The Jews of Harlem
Jeffrey S. Gurock
Cover of My Own Words
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My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams
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Who Rules the Syn­a­gogue?: Reli­gious Author­i­ty and the For­ma­tion of Amer­i­can Judaism
Zev Eleff
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The Lost Jour­nal­ism of Ring Lardner
Ring Lardner; Ron Rapoport, ed.
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Jacob Neusner: An Amer­i­can Jew­ish Iconoclast
Aaron W. Hughes
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A Nazi Meet­ing at Madi­son Square Garden

Ear­li­er this week, Ezra Glin­ter wrote about the research behind his anthol­o­gy Have I Got a Sto­ry for You: More Than a Cen­tu­ry of Fic­tion from The…
Ezra Glin­ter
November 2, 2016
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B‑Sides from The Borscht Belt

Ear­li­er this week, Marisa Sche­in­feld reflect­ed on how the themes of the Jew­ish High Hol­i­days relate to her book, The Borscht Belt: Revis­it­ing the Remains of America’s…
Marisa Sche­in­feld
October 13, 2016
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