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American Jewish Studies

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Jew­ish Girls Com­ing of Age in Amer­i­ca 1860 – 1920
Melissa R. Klapper
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The New Jew­ish Lead­ers: Reshap­ing the Amer­i­can Jew­ish Landscape
Jack Wertheimer, ed.
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In the Promised Land: Lives of Jew­ish Americans
Doreen Rappaport; Cornelius Van Wright; Ying- Hwa Hu Harper, illus.
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The Birth of Con­ser­v­a­tive Judaism: Solomon Schechter’s Dis­ci­ples and the Cre­ation of an Amer­i­can Reli­gious Movement
Michael R. Cohen
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Bod­ies and Souls: The Trag­ic Plight of Three Jew­ish Women Forced into Pros­ti­tu­tion in the Americas
Isabel Vincent
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In Our Own Voic­es: A Guide to Con­duct­ing Life His­to­ry Inter­views with Amer­i­can Jew­ish Women
Jewish Women’s Archive, ed.
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A Titan­ic Love Sto­ry: Ida and Isidor Straus
June Hall McCash
Cover of Making the Bible Modern: Children's Bibles and Jewish Education in Twentieth-Century America
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Mak­ing the Bible Mod­ern: Chil­dren’s Bibles and Jew­ish Edu­ca­tion in Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry America
Penny Schine Gold
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A Room in California
Laurence Goldstein
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Jews and the Amer­i­can Soul: Human Nature in the 20th Century
Andrew R. Heinze
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Buried by the Times: The Holo­caust and Amer­i­ca’s Most Impor­tant Newspaper
Laurel Leff
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Reli­gion in America
Mary E. Williams, Editor
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Har­vey Pekar’s Cleveland
Harvey Pekar; Joseph Remnant, illus.
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Amer­i­can Dreams and Nazi Night­mares: Ear­ly Holo­caust Con­scious­ness and Lib­er­al Amer­i­ca 1957 – 1965
Kristen Fermaglich
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The Ellis Island Snow Globe
Erica Rand
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Jew­ish Immi­grants 1880 – 1924: Com­ing to Amer­i­ca Series
Susan E. Haberle
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