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    American Jewish Studies

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    Stein­berg at the New Yorker
    Joel Smith
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    Amer­i­can Jew­ish Women and the Zion­ist Enterprise
    Shulamit Reinharz and Mark A. Raider, eds.
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    Judais­m’s Encounter with Amer­i­can Sports
    Jeffrey S. Gurock
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    Ladies and Gen­tle­men, The Bronx is Burn­ing: 1977, Base­ball, Pol­i­tics and the Bat­tle for the Soul of the City
    Jonathan Mahler
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    Haunt­ed in the New World: Jew­ish Amer­i­can Cul­ture From Cahan to the Goldbergs
    Donald Weber
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    The Mag­nif­i­cent Sea­sons: How the Jets, Mets, and Knicks Made Sports His­to­ry and Uplift­ed a City and the Country
    Art Shamsky;Barry Zeman
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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.
    Cover of In the Promised Land: Lives of Jewish Americans
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    In the Promised Land: Lives of Jew­ish Americans
    Doreen Rappaport; Cornelius Van Wright; Ying- Hwa Hu Harper, illus.
    Cover of The Birth of Conservative Judaism: Solomon Schechter’s Disciples and the Creation of an American Religious Movement
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    The Birth of Con­ser­v­a­tive Judaism: Solomon Schechter’s Dis­ci­ples and the Cre­ation of an Amer­i­can Reli­gious Movement
    Michael R. Cohen
    Cover of Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas
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    Bod­ies and Souls: The Trag­ic Plight of Three Jew­ish Women Forced into Pros­ti­tu­tion in the Americas
    Isabel Vincent
    Cover of In Our Own Voices: A Guide to Conducting Life History Interviews with American Jewish Women
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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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