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American Jewish Studies

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Con­tra­band: Smug­gling and the Birth of the Amer­i­can Century
Andrew Wen­der Cohen
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I Did­n’t Tell Them Any­thing: The Wartime Secrets of an Amer­i­can Girl
Aleena Rieger
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One Nation, Under Gods: A New Amer­i­can History
Peter Manseau
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The William Mar­vy Com­pa­ny of St. Paul: Keep­ing Bar­ber Shops Classic
Curt Brown
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The Out­skirts of Hope: A Mem­oir of the 1960s Deep South
Jo Ivester
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Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was
Arlene Alda
Interview

Inter­view: Jonathan D. Sarna

Lin­coln and the Jews: A His­to­ry by Jonathan D. Sar­na and Ben­jamin Shapell chron­i­cles the extra­or­di­nary rela­tion­ship between Pres­i­dent Abra­ham Lin­coln and…
Elise Coop­er
May 19, 2015
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Cross­ing Broad­way: Wash­ing­ton Heights and the Promise of New York City
Robert W. Snyder
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Jew­ish New York: A His­to­ry and Guide to Neigh­bor­hoods, Syn­a­gogues, and Eateries
Paul M. Kaplan
Essay

Turn­ing a Visu­al Project into a Book

Ear­li­er this week, Ali­na Bli­u­mis wrote about the Amer­i­can-Russ­ian-Jew­ish iden­ti­ty cri­sis and a pho­tog­ra­phy series she shot, along with her part­ner and…
Ali­na Bliumis
May 15, 2015
Essay

Pho­tograph­ing a Por­trait of the Amer­i­can Jew­ish Community

Ear­li­er this week, Ali­na Bli­u­mis wrote about the Amer­i­can-Russ­ian-Jew­ish iden­ti­ty cri­sis and a pho­tog­ra­phy series she shot, along with her part­ner and…
Ali­na Bliumis
May 13, 2015
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Car­oli­na Israelite: How Har­ry Gold­en Made Us Care About Jews, the South, and Civ­il Rights
Kim­ber­ly Mar­lowe Hartnett
Essay

Address­ing the Amer­i­can-Russ­ian-Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty Cri­sis, Cam­era in Hand

Ali­na Bli­u­mis received her BFA from the School of Visu­al Art in 1999 and a diplo­ma from the Advanced Course in Visu­al Arts in Fon­dazione Anto­nio Rat­ti, Como, Italy…
Ali­na Bliumis
May 11, 2015
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Visu­al Arts
From Self­ie to Groupie
Alina and Jeff Bliumis
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Social Con­cern and Left Pol­i­tics in Jew­ish Amer­i­can Art, 1880 – 1940
Matthew Baigell
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Transna­tion­al Tra­di­tions: New Per­spec­tives on Amer­i­can Jew­ish History
Ava F. Kahn and Adam D. Mendelsohn, ed.
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