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    American Jewish Studies

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    The Lost Syn­a­gogues of Brooklyn
    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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    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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    The Har­ness Mak­er’s Dream: Nathan Kalli­son and the Rise of South Texas
    Nick Kotz
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    Tri­an­gle: The Fire That Changed America
    David von Drehle
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    Anti­semitism and the Amer­i­can Far Left
    Stephen H. Norwood
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    The New Amer­i­can Zionism
    Theodore Sasson
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    Judaism in Tran­si­tion: How Eco­nom­ic Choic­es Shape Reli­gious Tradition
    Carmel Ullman Chiswick
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    The New Dias­po­ra: The Chang­ing Land­scape of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Fiction
    Victoria Aarons, Avinoam J. Patt, and Mark Shechner
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    Danc­ing Jew­ish: Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty in Amer­i­can Mod­ern and Post­mod­ern Dance
    Rebec­ca Rossen
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    Schools of Hope: How Julius Rosen­wald Helped Change African Amer­i­can Education
    Nor­man H. Finkelstein
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    Visu­al Arts
    Jew­ish Artists and the Bible in Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry America
    Saman­tha Baskind
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    Between The Lines: Reflec­tions on the Amer­i­can Jew­ish Experience
    Gary Rosen­blatt
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