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American Jewish Studies

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Amer­i­can Ghost: The True Sto­ry of a Fam­i­ly’s Haunt­ed Past
Han­nah Nordhaus
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The B‑Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great Amer­i­can Song
Ben Yagoda
Essay

Com­mu­ni­cat­ing the Beauty

Ear­li­er this week, Rober­ta Rosen­thal Kwall wrote about how on how plu­ral­ism strength­ens Judaism and shared the back­sto­ry behind her newest book, The Myth of the…
Rober­ta Rosen­thal Kwall
March 20, 2015
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That Pride of Race and Char­ac­ter: The Roots of Jew­ish Benev­o­lence in the Jim Crow South
Caroline E. Light
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Lin­coln and the Jews: A History
Jonathan D. Sarna and Benjamin Shapell
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Book Cov­er of the Week: Immi­grants Against the State

Post­ed by Nat BernsteinIt’s been a while since we fea­tured a non­fic­tion title on The Pros­en­Peo­ple’s Book Cov­er of the Week series, so how’s this for…
Nat Bern­stein
February 10, 2015
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Urban Ori­gins of Amer­i­can Judaism
Deb­o­rah Dash Moore
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The Blooms­bury Anthol­o­gy of Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Amer­i­can Poetry
Deborah Ager & M. E. Silverman, eds.
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Amer­i­can Judaism: A History
Jonathan D. Sarna
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The Nazis Next Door: How Amer­i­ca Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men
Eric Lichtblau
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Jew­ish Mad Men: Adver­tis­ing and the Design of the Amer­i­can Jew­ish Experience
Ker­ri P. Steinberg
Essay

How Can We Explain Jew­ish Suc­cess in America?

Ear­li­er this week, Adam D. Mendel­sohn wrote about the thrill of find­ing an inter­est­ing lead while con­duct­ing research. His most recent book, The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed…
Adam D. Mendelsohn
December 18, 2014
Essay

Stum­bling on Jew­ish Sup­pli­ers to the Confederacy

Adam D. Mendel­sohn is Direc­tor of the Pearlstine/​Lipov Cen­ter for South­ern Jew­ish Cul­ture and Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Jew­ish Stud­ies at the Col­lege of Charleston. His…
Adam D. Mendelsohn
December 16, 2014
Essay

Fid­dler at Fifty

by Edward ShapiroIt has been fifty years since Fid­dler on the Roof opened on Broad­way on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 22, 1964 at New York City’s Impe­r­i­al The­ater. To mark its…
Edward Shapiro
December 9, 2014
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The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Suc­cess in Amer­i­ca and the British Empire
Adam D. Mendelsohn
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Encoun­ter­ing Ellis Island: How Euro­pean Immi­grants Entered America
Ronald H. Bayor
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