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    American Jewish Studies

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    Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Idea: A Fair­ly Fab­ri­cat­ed Sto­ry of a Pair of Pants
    Tony Johnston; Stacy Innerst, illus.
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    Eat the City: A Tale of the Fish­ers, For­agers, Butch­ers, Farm­ers, Poul­try Min­ders, Sug­ar Refin­ers, Cane Cut­ters, Bee­keep­ers, Wine­mak­ers, and Brew­ers Who Built New York
    Robin Shulman
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    The Russ­ian Writer’s Daugh­ter: Sto­ries of Grow­ing Up American
    Lydia Ros­ner
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    The Rest of Us: The Rise of Amer­i­ca’s East­ern Euro­pean Jews
    Stephen Birmingham
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    Old Lives and New: Sovi­et Immi­grants in Israel and America
    Edith Rogovin Frankel
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    We Killed: The Rise of Women in Amer­i­can Comedy
    Yael Kohen
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    Wives With­out Hus­bands: Mar­riage, Deser­tion, and Wel­fare in New York 1900 – 1935
    Anna R. Igra
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    Seinol­o­gy
    Tim Delaney
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    Jew­ish Writ­ing and the Deep Places of the Imagination
    Mark Krupnick; Jean K. Carney; Mark Shechner, eds.
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    Trin­i­ty of Pas­sion: The Lit­er­ary Left and the Antifas­cist Crusade
    Alan M. Wald
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    Jew­ish Women Pio­neer­ing the Fron­tier Trail: A His­to­ry in the Amer­i­can West
    Jeanne E. Abrams
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