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    American Jewish Studies

    Cover of Coming of Age in Jewish America: Bar and Bat Mitzvah Reinterpreted
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    Com­ing of Age in Jew­ish Amer­i­ca: Bar and Bat Mitz­vah Reinterpreted
    Patricia Keer Munro
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    Immi­grants Against the State: Yid­dish and Ital­ian Anar­chism in America
    Kenyon Zimmer
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    Famous Nathan
    Lloyd Handwerker with Gil Reavill
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    The Lega­cy of the Burn­ing Bush
    Lar­ry S. Milner
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    Chil­dren’s
    Levi & Aya
    Shoshana Banana
    Cover of JewAsian: Race, Religion, and Identity for America's Newest Jews
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    Jew­Asian: Race, Reli­gion, and Iden­ti­ty for Amer­i­ca’s Newest Jews
    Helen Kiy­ong Kim
    Noah Samuel Leavitt
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    Visu­al Arts
    The Borscht Belt
    Marisa Sche­in­feld
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    Stars in the Ring
    Mike Sil­ver
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    Was Elvis Jewish?
    Paulette Cooper
    Cover of Why The Jews?
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    Why The Jews?
    Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin
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    The Salome Ensemble
    Alan Robert Ginsberg
    Cover of Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict Over Israel
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    Trou­ble in the Tribe: The Amer­i­can Jew­ish Con­flict Over Israel
    Dov Wax­man
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    Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Oth­er Tales of Mod­ern Food
    Roger Horowitz
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    “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jew­ish Amer­i­can Iden­ti­ty in Con­tem­po­rary Graph­ic Memoirs
    Tah­neer Oksman
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    The Lady with the Bor­zoi: Blanche Knopf, Lit­er­ary Tastemak­er Extraordinaire
    Laura Claridge
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    Meant to Be: A Memoir
    Rabbi Marvin Hier
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