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    American Jewish Studies

    Cover of The Jews of Harlem
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    The Jews of Harlem
    Jeffrey S. Gurock
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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
    Essay

    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
    Essay

    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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    The Jew Store
    Stella Suberman
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    Mur­der, Inc. and the Moral Life
    Robert Weldon Whalen
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    Max Baer and Bar­ney Ross: Jew­ish Heroes of Boxing
    Jeffrey Sussman
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    By Dawn’s Ear­ly Light
    Princeton University Art Museum
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    The Case for Auschwitz: Evi­dence from the Irv­ing Trial
    Robert Jan van Pelt
    Cover of Anti-Semitism: Jewish Immigrants Seek Safety in America (1881-1914)
    Chil­dren’s
    Anti-Semi­tism: Jew­ish Immi­grants Seek Safe­ty in Amer­i­ca (1881−1914)
    Dava Pressberg
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    The Star and the Stripes: A His­to­ry of the For­eign Poli­cies of Amer­i­can Jews
    Michael N. Barnett
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    Holo­caust: An Amer­i­can Understanding
    Deb­o­rah E. Lipstadt
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    Louis D. Bran­deis: Amer­i­can Prophet
    Jeffrey Rosen
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    Chil­dren’s
    44 Hours or Strike
    Anne Dublin
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