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    American Jewish Studies

    Cover of American Jewish History: A Primary Source Reader
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    Amer­i­can Jew­ish His­to­ry: A Pri­ma­ry Source Reader
    Gary Phillip Zola (Editor), Marc Dollinger (Editor)
    Cover of Pillar of Fire: A Biography of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise
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    Pil­lar of Fire: A Biog­ra­phy of Rab­bi Stephen S. Wise
    A. James Rudin
    Cover of Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century
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    Exit Right: The Peo­ple Who Left the Left and Reshaped the Amer­i­can Century
    Daniel Oppen­heimer
    Cover of Summer Haven: The Catskills, the Holocaust and the Literary Imagination
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    Sum­mer Haven: The Catskills, the Holo­caust and the Lit­er­ary Imagination
    Holli Levitsky and Phil Brown, eds.
    Cover of Ben Shahn’s New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene
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    Ben Shahn’s New Deal Murals: Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty in the Amer­i­can Scene
    Diana L. Linden
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    The Base­ball Hag­gadah: A Fes­ti­val of Free­dom and Spring­time in 15 Innings
    Sharon G. Forman; Lisa J. Teitelbaum, illus.
    Cover of The Arab-Israeli Conflict in American Political Culture
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    The Arab-Israeli Con­flict in Amer­i­can Polit­i­cal Culture
    Jonathan Rynhold
    Cover of Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel
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    Young Lions: How Jew­ish Authors Rein­vent­ed the Amer­i­can War Novel
    Leah Garrett
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    Audac­i­ty
    Melanie Crowder
    Cover of Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict
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    Gen­e­sis: Tru­man, Amer­i­can Jews, and the Ori­gins of the Arab/​Israeli Conflict
    John B. Judis
    Cover of Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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    Noto­ri­ous RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg
    Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik
    Cover of Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit
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    Met­ro­pol­i­tan Jews: Pol­i­tics, Race, and Reli­gion in Post­war Detroit
    Lila Corwin Berman
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    1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History
    Jay Winik
    Cover of Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli
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    Pas­tra­mi on Rye: An Over­stuffed His­to­ry of the Jew­ish Deli
    Ted Mer­win
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    Peg­gy Guggen­heim: The Shock of the Modern
    Francine Prose
    Cover of Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism
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    Beyond Sec­tar­i­an­ism: The Realign­ment of Amer­i­can Ortho­dox Judaism
    Adam S. Ferziger
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