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American Jewish Studies

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The Green­ing of Amer­i­can Ortho­dox Judaism: Yavneh in the 1960s
Benny Kraut
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A Secret Gift: How One Man’s Kind­ness– and a Trove of Let­ters– Revealed the Hid­den His­to­ry of the Great Depression
Ted Gup
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Pre­cious Objects: A Sto­ry of Dia­monds, Fam­i­ly, and a Way of Life
Ali­cia Oltuski
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Beyond the Façade: A Syn­a­gogue, A Restora­tion, A Legacy
Larry Bortniker, Roberta Brandes Gratz, and Bonnie Dimun
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In the Gar­den of Beasts: Love, Ter­ror, and an Amer­i­can Fam­i­ly in Hitler’s Berlin
Erik Larson
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Pas­sion­ate Pio­neers: The Sto­ry of Yid­dish Sec­u­lar Edu­ca­tion in North Amer­i­ca, 1910 – 1960
Fradle Pomerantz Freidenreich; Jonathan Sarna, fwd.
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The Syn­a­gogue in Amer­i­ca: A Short History
Marc Lee Raphael
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Invent­ing Great Neck-Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty and the Amer­i­can Dream
Judith S. Goldstein
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Jew­ish Roots in South­ern Soil: A New History
Marcie Cohen Ferris and Mark I. Greenberg, eds.
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Jew Vs. Jew: The Strug­gle for the Soul of Amer­i­can Jewry
Samuel G. Freedman
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Sav­ing the Jews: Franklin D. Roo­sevelt and the Holocaust
Robert N. Rosen
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Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball
Rebecca T. Alpert
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Pitch­ing in the Promised Land: A Sto­ry of the First and Only Sea­son in the Israel Base­ball League
Aaron Pribble
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Emma Lazarus
Esther Schor
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Trou­bling the Waters: Black-Jew­ish Rela­tions in the Amer­i­can Century
Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
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Is It Good For The Jews?: The Cri­sis of Amer­i­ca’s Israel Lobby
Stephen Schwartz
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