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    American Jewish Studies

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    A Rosen­berg by Any Oth­er Name: A His­to­ry of Jew­ish Name Chang­ing in America
    Kirsten Fer­maglich
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    What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans)
    Naomi B. Sokoloff and Nancy E. Berg
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    The Super­woman and Oth­er Writ­ings by Miri­am Michelson
    Lori Har­ri­son-Kahan
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    Is There a Jew­ish Lit­er­ary Renaissance?

    Ilan Sta­vans is Lewis-Sebring Pro­fes­sor in Latin Amer­i­can and Lati­no Cul­ture at Amherst Col­lege. His most recent books are the col­lec­tion of essays Singer’s Type­writer…
    Ilan Sta­vans
    December 24, 2012
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    Singer’s Type­writer and Mine: Reflec­tions on Jew­ish Culture
    Ilan Sta­vans
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    Hadas­sah: Amer­i­can Women Zion­ists and the Rebirth of Israel
    Mira Katzburg-Yungman
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    Super­man Is Jew­ish?: How Com­ic Book Super­heroes Came to Serve Truth, Jus­tice, and the Jew­ish-Amer­i­can Way
    Har­ry Brod
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    Sun­days at Sinai: A Jew­ish Con­gre­ga­tion in Chicago
    Tobias Brinkmann
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    Mes­sian­ism, Secre­cy and Mys­ti­cism: A New Inter­pre­ta­tion of Ear­ly Amer­i­can Jew­ish Life
    Laura Arnold Leibman
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    A Kosher Christ­mas: ​’Tis the Sea­son to Be Jewish
    Joshua Eli Plaut; Jonathan D. Sarna, fwd.
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    Sports Is Like Hol­ly­wood: They’re Both Jewish!

    Marc Tra­cy is the co-edi­tor of the new book Jew­ish Jocks: An Unortho­dox Hall of Fame. He will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.In…
    Marc Tra­cy
    November 13, 2012
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    Jew­ish Renais­sance and Revival in Amer­i­ca: Essays in Mem­o­ry of Leah Levitz Fish­bane, ז״ ל
    Eitan P. Fishbane and Jonathan D. Sarna, eds.
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    Race, Rights, & Recog­ni­tion: Jew­ish Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture since 1969
    Dean J. Franco
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    Amer­i­ca’s Soul in the Balance
    Gregory J. Wallance
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    The Gersh­wins and Me
    Michael Feinstein
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    There Was A Fire: Jews, Music and the Amer­i­can Dream
    Ben Sidran
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