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    American Jewish Studies

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    Buried by the Times: The Holo­caust and Amer­i­ca’s Most Impor­tant Newspaper
    Laurel Leff
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    Chil­dren’s
    Reli­gion in America
    Mary E. Williams, Editor
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    Har­vey Pekar’s Cleveland
    Harvey Pekar; Joseph Remnant, illus.
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    Bar Mitz­vah Dis­co: The Music May Have Stopped, But the Par­ty’s Nev­er Over
    Roger Bennett, Nick Kroll, Jules Shell
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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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    Chil­dren’s
    Jew­ish Immi­grants 1880 – 1924: Com­ing to Amer­i­ca Series
    Susan E. Haberle
    Cover of You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South
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    You Need a School­house: Book­er T. Wash­ing­ton, Julius Rosen­wald, and the Build­ing of Schools for the Seg­re­gat­ed South
    Stephanie Deutsch
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    All Those Mornings..at the Post: The 20th Cen­tu­ry in Sports From Famed Wash­ing­ton Post Columnist
    Shirley Povich
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    Nana Lena’s Kitchen: Recipes for Life
    Amy Ostrower
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    Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holo­caust America
    Eric J. Sundquist
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    The Rab­bi’s Wife: The Reb­bet­zin in Amer­i­can Jew­ish Life
    Shuly Rubin Schwartz
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    Adven­tures in Yid­dish­land: Postver­nac­u­lar Lan­guage and Culture
    Jeffrey Shandler
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    Call it Eng­lish: The Lan­guages of Jew­ish Amer­i­can Literature
    Hana Wirth-Nesher
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    The ​“Berg­son Boys” and the Ori­gins of Con­tem­po­rary Zion­ist Militancy
    Judith Tydor Baumel
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    Jew­ish Major Lea­guers in Their Own Words: Oral His­to­ries of 23 Players
    Peter Ephross with Martin Abramowitz
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