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    American Jewish Studies

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    Hand-Dry­ing in Amer­i­ca: And Oth­er Stories
    Ben Katchor
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    Visu­al Arts
    Jews in Amer­i­ca: From New Ams­ter­dam to the Yid­dish Stage
    Stephen D. Corrsin, Amanda Seigel and Kenneth Benson
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    Find­ing a Tra­di­tion of His Own: A South­ern Outsider

    by Beth KissileffSteve Stern’s most recent col­lec­tion, The Book of Mis­chief, was pub­lished in Sep­tem­ber 2012 by Gray­wolf Press.Steve Stern is, in my opin­ion, the best…
    Beth Kissileff
    February 7, 2013
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    Jew­ish Rad­i­cals: A Doc­u­men­tary History
    Tony Michels
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    Cho­sen Cap­i­tal: The Jew­ish Encounter with Amer­i­can Capitalism
    Rebecca Kobrin, ed.
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    A Per­fect Fit: The Gar­ment Indus­try and Amer­i­can Jew­ry, 1800 – 1960
    Gabriel M. Goldstein and Elizabeth E. Greenberg, eds.
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    City of Promis­es: A His­to­ry of the Jews of New York, With a Visu­al Essay by Diana L. Linden
    Rock, Polland, Soyer, Gurock; Deborah Dash Moore, ed.
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    The Super­woman and Oth­er Writ­ings by Miri­am Michelson
    Lori Har­ri­son-Kahan
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    Amer­i­can Jew­Bu: Jews, Bud­dhists, and Reli­gious Change
    Emily Sigalow
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    The World of Auf­bau: Hitler’s Refugees in America
    Peter Schrag
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    To Heal The World?: How the Jew­ish Left Cor­rupts Judaism and Endan­gers Israel
    Jonathan Neu­mann
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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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    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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