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    American Jewish Studies

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    Jews and Booze: Becom­ing Amer­i­can in the Age of Prohibition
    Marni Davis
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    Pas­ta, Fried Rice and Mat­zoh Balls: Immi­grant Cook­ing in America
    Loretta Frances Ichord; Jan Davey Ellis, illus.
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    Reclaim­ing Ado­les­cents: A Return to the Vil­lage State of Mind
    Chaim Peri
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    A Woman of Uncer­tain Char­ac­ter: The Amorous and Rad­i­cal Adven­tures of My Moth­er Jen­nie (Who Always Want­ed to be a Respectable Jew­ish Mom) By Her Bas­tard Son
    Clancy Sigal
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    The Echo­ing Green: The Untold Sto­ry of Bob­by Thom­son, Ralph Bran­ca and the Shot Heard Round the World
    Joshua Prager
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    Up, Up and Oy Vey!: How Jew­ish His­to­ry, Cul­ture, and Val­ues Shaped the Com­ic Book Superhero
    Sim­cha Weinstein
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    Mus­lims and Jews in Amer­i­ca: Com­mon­al­i­ties, Con­tentions, and Complexities
    Reza Aslan and Aaron J. Hahn Tapper, eds.
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    The Jew­ish King Lear: A Com­e­dy in America
    Jacob Gordin; Ruth Gay, trans.
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    Spir­i­tu­al Rad­i­cal: Abra­ham Joshua Hes­chel in Amer­i­ca, 1940 – 1972
    Edward K. Kaplan
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    Fiorel­lo’s Sis­ter: Gem­ma Laguardia Gluck­’s Story
    Rochelle G. Saidel, ed.
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    Con­test­ing His­to­ries: Ger­man and Jew­ish Amer­i­cans and the Lega­cy of the Holocaust
    Michael Schuldiner
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    A Match Made in Heav­en: Amer­i­can Jews, Chris­t­ian Zion­ists, and One Man’s Explo­ration of the Weird and Won­der­ful Judeo-Evan­gel­i­cal Alliance
    Zev Chafetz
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    At The Edge of a Dream: The Sto­ry of Jew­ish Immi­grants on New York’s Low­er East Side: 1880 – 1920
    Lawrence J. Epstein
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    The Dead­liest Lies: The Israel Lob­by and the Myth of Jew­ish Control
    Abraham H. Foxman
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    The Trap: Sell­ing Out to Stay Afloat in Win­ner-Take-All America
    Daniel Brook
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    Daniel Morris
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