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Cover of How to Spell Chanukah and Other Holiday Dilemmas: Eighteen Writers Celebrate Eight Nights of Lights

How to Spell Chanukah and Other Holiday Dilemmas: Eighteen Writers Celebrate Eight Nights of Lights

Emily Franklin, ed.

Cover of The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America

The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America

Cover of Hollywood's Celebrity Gangster: The Incredible Life and Times of Mickey Cohen

Hollywood’s Celebrity Gangster: The Incredible Life and Times of Mickey Cohen

Cover of The Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood

The Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood

Joanne Jacobson

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Zion in the Desert: American Jews in Israel’s Reform Kibbutzim

William F.S. Miles

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Cover of Recovering "Yiddishland": Threshold Moments in American Literature

Recovering “Yiddishland”: Threshold Moments in American Literature

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Cover of Manischewitz: The Matzo Family: The Making of an American Jewish Icon

Manischewitz: The Matzo Family: The Making of an American Jewish Icon

Laura Manischewitz Alpern; Jonathan D. Sarna, intro.

Cover of The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry

The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry

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The Soviet Jewish Americans

Annelise Orleck

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Imagining the American Jewish Community

Jack Wertheimer, ed.

Cover of Home is Where You Find It: A Memoir

Home is Where You Find It: A Memoir

Benjamin Hirsch

Cover of Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity

Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity

Jonathan Freedman

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Dough: A Memoir

Cover of Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride

Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary Ride

Cover of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

Jennifer B. Lee