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    American Jewish Studies

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    Mike Sil­ver
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    Was Elvis Jewish?
    Paulette Cooper
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    Why The Jews?
    Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin
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    Alan Robert Ginsberg
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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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    Shoshana Banana
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    Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Oth­er Tales of Mod­ern Food
    Roger Horowitz
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    Trou­ble in the Tribe: The Amer­i­can Jew­ish Con­flict Over Israel
    Dov Wax­man
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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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    Meant to Be: A Memoir
    Rabbi Marvin Hier
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    The Lady with the Bor­zoi: Blanche Knopf, Lit­er­ary Tastemak­er Extraordinaire
    Laura Claridge
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    Gary Phillip Zola (Editor), Marc Dollinger (Editor)
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    Pil­lar of Fire: A Biog­ra­phy of Rab­bi Stephen S. Wise
    A. James Rudin
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    Daniel Oppen­heimer
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