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    American Jewish Studies

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    Jew­ish Mad Men: Adver­tis­ing and the Design of the Amer­i­can Jew­ish Experience
    Ker­ri P. Steinberg
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    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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    Risk­ing Every­thing: A Free­dom Sum­mer Reader
    Michael Edmonds, ed.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Anna and Solomon
    Elaine Snyder
    Cover of After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965
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    After They Closed the Gates: Jew­ish Ille­gal Immi­gra­tion to the Unit­ed States, 1921 – 1965
    Libby Garland
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    Amer­i­can Jew­ish Polit­i­cal Cul­ture and the Lib­er­al Persuasion
    Henry L. Feingold
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    We Called Him Rab­bi Abra­ham: Lin­coln and Amer­i­can Jew­ry, A Doc­u­men­tary History
    Gary Philip Zola
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    Jew­ish Families
    Jonathan Boyarin
    Cover of Jewish on Their Own Terms: How Intermarried Couples Are Changing American Judaism
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    Jew­ish on Their Own Terms: How Inter­mar­ried Cou­ples Are Chang­ing Amer­i­can Judaism
    Jennifer A. Thompson
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    Pol­i­tics, Faith, and the Mak­ing of Amer­i­can Judaism
    Peter Adams
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    The Lost Syn­a­gogues of Brooklyn
    Ellen Levitt
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    The Lost Syn­a­gogues of Manhattan
    Ellen Levitt
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