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    American Jewish Studies

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    Dear Mendl, Dear Rey­zl: Yid­dish Let­ter Man­u­als from Rus­sia and America
    Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman
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    Jews & Dias­po­ra Nation­al­ism: Writ­ings on Jew­ish Peo­ple­hood in Europe & The Unit­ed States
    Simon Rabinovitch, ed.
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    A Bin­tel Brief: Love and Long­ing in Old New York
    Liana Finck
    Essay

    Yes, Vir­ginia. There IS a Jew­ish Pres­i­dent: Jews in Politics

    Ear­li­er this week, Emi­ly Stone wrote about Jews and Hol­ly­wood (have you tak­en her quiz ​“It’s True-ish, They’re Jew­ish!”?) and Jews and sports (have you tak­en her quiz…
    Emi­ly Stone
    February 28, 2014
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    Mis­sion at Nurem­berg: An Amer­i­can Army Chap­lain and the Tri­al of the Nazis
    Tim Townsend
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    Unclean Lips: Jews, Obscen­i­ty, and Amer­i­can Culture
    Josh Lambert
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    The­atri­cal Lib­er­al­ism: Jews and Pop­u­lar Enter­tain­ment in America
    Andrea Most
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    Jews in the Los Ange­les Mosaic
    Karen S. Wilson, ed.
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    Hanukkah in Amer­i­ca: A History
    Dianne Ash­ton
    Essay

    Some Thoughts on the Pew Sur­vey of Jew­ish America

    Ear­li­er this week, Michael Levin wrote about encoun­ter­ing the Hasidic enclave for the first time and the why and how of his art and research on Hasidism. He is…
    Michael Levin
    October 18, 2013
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    Louis Mar­shall and the Rise of Jew­ish Eth­nic­i­ty in Amer­i­ca: A Biography
    M. M. Silver
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    The Rise of Abra­ham Cahan
    Seth Lip­sky
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    FDR and the Jews
    Richard Breitman & Allan J. Lichtman
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    Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirt­waist Mak­ers’ Strike of 1909
    Michelle Markel; Melissa Sweet, illus.
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    Black Harlem and the Jew­ish Low­er East Side: Nar­ra­tives Out of Time
    Catherine Rottenberg, ed.
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    Arab and Jew­ish Women in Ken­tucky: Sto­ries of Accom­mo­da­tion and Audacity
    Nora Rose Moosnick
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