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American Jewish Studies

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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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Tow­ers of Gold: How One Jew­ish Immi­grant Named Isa­ias Hell­man Cre­at­ed California
Frances Dinkenspiel
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A Cir­cle in the Square: Rab­bi Shlo­mo Riskin Rein­vents the Synagogue
Edward Abramson
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Jews and Booze: Becom­ing Amer­i­can in the Age of Prohibition
Marni Davis
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A Covenant of Dreams: Real­iz­ing the Promise of Jew­ish Education
Diane Tickton Schuster, ed; Zion Ozeri, photographs; Pearl Gluck, filmaker
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Pass­ing Game: Ben­ny Fried­man and the Trans­for­ma­tion of Football
Murray Greenberg
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Tak­ing Back God: Amer­i­can Women Ris­ing Up for Reli­gious Equality
Leora Tenenbaum
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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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