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    American Jewish Studies

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    Beyond Sec­tar­i­an­ism: The Realign­ment of Amer­i­can Ortho­dox Judaism
    Adam S. Ferziger
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    God’ll Cut You Down: The Tan­gled Tale of A White Suprema­cist, A Black Hus­tler, A Mur­der, And How I Lost A Year In Mississippi
    John Safran
    Essay

    Dry Goods Mer­chant and Free­dom Fight­er: Samuel Fleish­man of Mar­i­an­na, FL

    Ear­li­er this week, Sabra Wald­fo­gel wrote about the Jews who lived in Mound Bay­ou. Her most recent book is Freedom’s Island, about an all-black Mis­sis­sip­pi town men­aced…
    Sabra Wald­fo­gel
    July 9, 2015
    Essay

    The Jews of Mound Bayou

    Sabra Wald­fo­gel writes his­tor­i­cal fic­tion about South­ern Jews and African Amer­i­cans in slav­ery and free­dom. Her most recent book, Freedom’s Island, about an all-black…
    Sabra Wald­fo­gel
    July 6, 2015
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    Sis­ters in Law: How San­dra Day O’Con­nor and Ruth Bad­er Gins­burg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
    Lin­da Hirshman
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    The Catskills: Its His­to­ry and How It Changed America
    Raphael D. Silver
    Stephen M. Silverman
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    Abra­ham: The World’s First (But Cer­tain­ly Not Last) Jew­ish Lawyer
    Alan Der­showitz
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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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    I Did­n’t Tell Them Any­thing: The Wartime Secrets of an Amer­i­can Girl
    Aleena Rieger
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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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    Con­tra­band: Smug­gling and the Birth of the Amer­i­can Century
    Andrew Wen­der Cohen
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    Jew­ish New York: A His­to­ry and Guide to Neigh­bor­hoods, Syn­a­gogues, and Eateries
    Paul M. Kaplan
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