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American Jewish Studies

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Non­fic­tion
Risk­ing Every­thing: A Free­dom Sum­mer Reader
Michael Edmonds, ed.
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Chil­dren’s
Anna and Solomon
Elaine Snyder
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After They Closed the Gates: Jew­ish Ille­gal Immi­gra­tion to the Unit­ed States, 1921 – 1965
Libby Garland
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Non­fic­tion
Amer­i­can Jew­ish Polit­i­cal Cul­ture and the Lib­er­al Persuasion
Henry L. Feingold
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Non­fic­tion
We Called Him Rab­bi Abra­ham: Lin­coln and Amer­i­can Jew­ry, A Doc­u­men­tary History
Gary Philip Zola
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Non­fic­tion
Jew­ish Families
Jonathan Boyarin
Cover of Jewish on Their Own Terms: How Intermarried Couples Are Changing American Judaism
Non­fic­tion
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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Non­fic­tion
The Lost Syn­a­gogues of Manhattan
Ellen Levitt
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The Lost Syn­a­gogues of the Bronx and Queens
Ellen Levitt
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
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Focus
Arthur Miller
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Non­fic­tion
Gen­tle­man’s Agreement
Laura Z. Hobson
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The Rad­i­cal Amer­i­can Judaism of Morde­cai M. Kaplan
Mel Scult
Essay

Jews and Slav­ery: Clara Solomon and Lucy Lewis

Ear­li­er this week, Sabra Wald­fo­gel wrote about Raphael Moses, one of the most emi­nent Jews in Geor­gia in the nine­teenth cen­tu­ry. She has recent­ly pub­lished Slave and…
Sabra Wald­fo­gel
July 30, 2014
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