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Nonfiction The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire Adam D. Mendelsohn
Nonfiction After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921 – 1965 Libby Garland
Nonfiction We Called Him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry, A Documentary History Gary Philip Zola
Nonfiction Jewish on Their Own Terms: How Intermarried Couples Are Changing American Judaism Jennifer A. Thompson
Essay Jews and Slavery: Isaac Cardozo and Lydia Weston Earlier this week, Sabra Waldfogel wrote about Raphael Moses, one of the most eminent Jews in Georgia in the nineteenth century, and Clara Solomon, a Jewish girl… Sabra Waldfogel August 1, 2014