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    American Jewish Studies

    Cover of New Mexico's Crypto-Jews: Image and Memory
    Visu­al Arts
    New Mex­i­co’s Cryp­to-Jews: Image and Memory
    Cary Herz, photographs; Ori Z. Soltes and Mona Hernandes, essays
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    Yid­dish in Amer­i­ca: Essays on Yid­dish Cul­ture in the Gold­en Land
    Edward S. Shapiro
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    In the Coun­try of Brook­lyn: Inspi­ra­tion to the World
    Peter Golenbock
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    Pens and Swords: How the Amer­i­can Main­stream Media Report the Israeli-Pales­tin­ian Conflict
    Marda Dunsky
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    Land­mark of the Spir­it: The Eldridge Street Synagogue
    Annie Pollard; Bill Moyers, fwd.
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    Des­ti­na­tion Bat Mitzvahs

    Ear­li­er this week, Shu­lamit Rein­harz and Bar­bara Vinick wrote about the his­to­ry of the bat miz­vah and Bar­bara Vinick shared her own sto­ry. Today, Shu­lamit Rein­harz…
    Bar­bara Vinick, Shu­lamit Reinharz
    January 13, 2012
    Essay

    The Sis­ter­hood of Bat Mitzvah

    On Mon­day, Shu­lamit Rein­harz and Bar­bara Vinick wrote about the his­to­ry of the bat mitz­vah for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing. Today, Bar­bara Vinick…
    Bar­bara Vinick, Shu­lamit Reinharz
    January 11, 2012
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    A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strat­e­gy for Amer­i­ca in the Mid­dle East
    Kenneth M. Pollack
    Essay

    Today I Am a Woman

    Shu­lamit Rein­harz and Bar­bara Vinick are the edi­tors of the recent­ly pub­lished Today I Am a Woman: Sto­ries of Bat Mitz­vah around the World. They will be…
    Bar­bara Vinick, Shu­lamit Reinharz
    January 9, 2012
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    Tri­umph Over Tyran­ny: The Hero­ic Cam­paigns That Saved 2,000,000 Sovi­et Jews
    Philip Spiegel; Natan Sharansky, fwd.
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    A Safe Haven: Har­ry Tru­man and the Found­ing of Israel
    Allis Radosh; Ronald Radosh
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    Levit­town: Two Fam­i­lies, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civ­il Rights in Amer­i­ca’s Leg­endary Suburb
    David Kushner
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    The Writer Uproot­ed: Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Exile Literature
    Alvin Rosen­feld
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    Beyond the Gold­en Door: Jew­ish Amer­i­can Dra­ma and Jew­ish Amer­i­can Experience
    Julius Novick
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    Lil­lian Wald: A Biography
    Marjorie N. Feld
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    Rethink­ing Jew­ish-Latin Americans
    Jeffrey Lesser and Raanan Rein, eds.
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