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    American Jewish Studies

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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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    Abor­tion, Birth Con­trol, and the Com­plex­i­ty of Halacha (Jew­ish Law)

    Ear­li­er this week, Melis­sa R. Klap­per wrote about 5 Amer­i­can Jew­ish women you’ve (prob­a­bly) nev­er heard of. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book…
    Melis­sa R. Klapper
    July 17, 2013
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    Hol­ly­wood’s Cho­sen Peo­ple: The Jew­ish Expe­ri­ence in Amer­i­can Cinema
    Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, Hava Tirosh Samuelson, eds.
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    Bal­lots, Babies, and Ban­ners of Peace: Amer­i­can Jew­ish Wom­en’s Activism, 1890 – 1940
    Melissa R. Klapper
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    Top 5 Amer­i­can Jew­ish Women Most Peo­ple Have Nev­er Heard Of

    Melis­sa R. Klap­per is a pro­fes­sor of his­to­ry at Rowan Uni­ver­si­ty in Glass­boro, NJ. Her newest book, Bal­lots, Babies, and Ban­ners of Peace Amer­i­can Jew­ish…
    Melis­sa R. Klapper
    July 15, 2013
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    Amalia Kauf­man
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    Use­ful Ene­mies: John Dem­jan­juk and Amer­i­ca’s Open-Door Pol­i­cy for Nazi War Criminals
    Richard Rashke
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    Jew­hoo­ing the Six­ties: Amer­i­can Celebri­ty and Jew­ish Identity
    David E. Kaufman
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    Cin­e­ma Judaica: The Epic Cycle 1950−−1972
    Ken Sutak
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    Victoria Saker Woeste
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    Don­na Minkowitz
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