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    American Jewish Studies

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    The First and Final Night­mare of Sonia Reich: A Son’s Memoir
    Howard Reich
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    Telling the Lit­tle Secrets: Amer­i­can Jew­ish Writ­ing Since the 1980’s
    Janet Handler Burstein
    Essay

    Jew­ish Peo­ple and Books

    Ear­li­er this week, Yehu­da Kurtzer wrote about a recent Com­men­tary arti­cle by Jack Wertheimer and the trans­mis­sion of mem­o­ry. He has been blog­ging here all week…
    Yehu­da Kurtzer
    June 8, 2012
    Essay

    The Future of the Past

    Yehu­da Kurtzer is the author of Shu­va: The Future of the Jew­ish Past. He will blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.In a recent…
    Yehu­da Kurtzer
    June 4, 2012
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    Gen­tile New York: The Images of Non-Jews Among Jew­ish Immigrants
    Gil Ribak
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    Scrib­blers on the Roof: Con­tem­po­rary Amer­i­can Jew­ish Fiction
    Melvin Jules Bukiet; David G. Roskies, eds.
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    Sweet and Low: A Fam­i­ly Story
    Rich Cohen
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    Act­ing Jew­ish: Nego­ti­at­ing Eth­nic­i­ty on the Amer­i­can Stage and Screen
    Henry Bial
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    Two Covenants: Rep­re­sen­ta­tion of South­ern Jewishness
    Eliza R. L. McGraw
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    The Com­pas­sion­ate Com­mu­ni­ty: Ten Val­ues to Unite America
    Jonathan Miller
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    The Left Hand of God: Tak­ing Back Our Coun­try From the Reli­gious Right
    Michael Lerner
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    Slid­ing to the Right: The Con­test for the Future of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Orthodoxy
    Samuel C. Heilman
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    Jew­ish Life in Small-Town Amer­i­ca: A History
    Lee Shai Weissbach
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    Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
    May 1, 2012
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    Jews of the Wild West a Mul­ti­cul­tur­al True Story
    Kay Miller
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