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    American Jewish Studies

    Cover of Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side
    Visu­al Arts
    Isaac Bashe­vis Singer and the Low­er East Side
    Isaac Bashevis Singer; Bruce Davidson, photographs
    Cover of The Dynamics of American Jewish History: Jacob Rader Marcus's Essays on American Jewry
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    The Dynam­ics of Amer­i­can Jew­ish His­to­ry: Jacob Rad­er Mar­cus’s Essays on Amer­i­can Jewry
    Gary Phillip Zola, ed.
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    Jew­ish Maxwell Street Stories
    Shuli Eshel and Roger Schatz
    Cover of Awake & Singing: Six Great American Jewish Plays
    Fic­tion
    Awake & Singing: Six Great Amer­i­can Jew­ish Plays
    Ellen Schiff, ed.
    Cover of Contemporary Sephardic Identity in the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Approach
    Non­fic­tion
    Con­tem­po­rary Sephardic Iden­ti­ty in the Amer­i­c­as: An Inter­dis­ci­pli­nary Approach
    Margalit Bejarano and Edna Aizenberg, eds.
    Cover of From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America
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    From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jew­ish Life in America
    Michael Grunberger, ed.
    Cover of The Jews of the United States: 1654 to 2000
    Non­fic­tion
    The Jews of the Unit­ed States: 1654 to 2000
    Hasia R. Diner
    Cover of From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture
    Non­fic­tion
    From the Low­er East Side to Hol­ly­wood: Jews in Amer­i­can Pop­u­lar Culture
    Paul Buhle
    Cover of Broadway: The American Musical
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    Broad­way: The Amer­i­can Musical
    Michael Kantor; Laurence Maslon
    Cover of American Presidents, Religion and Israel
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    Amer­i­can Pres­i­dents, Reli­gion and Israel
    Paul Charles Merkley
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    Who We Are: On Being (And Not Being) a Jew­ish Amer­i­can Writer
    Derek Rubin, ed.
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    The Provin­cials: A Per­son­al His­to­ry of Jews in the South
    Eli N. Evans
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    Pro­let­pen: Amer­i­ca’s Rebel Yid­dish Poets
    Amelia Glaser; David Weintraub, eds.
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    Men of Tomor­row: Geeks, Gang­sters and the Birth of the Com­ic Book
    Gerard Jones
    Non­fic­tion
    We Jews and Blacks: Mem­oir With Poems
    Willis Barn­stone
    Non­fic­tion
    Sex, Drugs, and Vio­lence in the Jew­ish Tra­di­tion: Moral Perspectives
    Daniel B. Kohn
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