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    American Jewish Studies

    Cover of Jew Vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry
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    Jew Vs. Jew: The Strug­gle for the Soul of Amer­i­can Jewry
    Samuel G. Freedman
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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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    Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball
    Rebecca T. Alpert
    Cover of Is It Good For The Jews?: The Crisis of America's Israel Lobby
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    Is It Good For The Jews?: The Cri­sis of Amer­i­ca’s Israel Lobby
    Stephen Schwartz
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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
    Cover of An Uneasy Relationship: American Jewish Leadership and Israel, 1948 - 1957
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    An Uneasy Rela­tion­ship: Amer­i­can Jew­ish Lead­er­ship and Israel, 1948 — 1957
    Zvi Ganin
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    A Breath of Life: Fem­i­nism in the Amer­i­can Jew­ish Community
    Sylvia Barack Fishman
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    The Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty Project: New Amer­i­can Photography
    Susan Shevlowe, ed.
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    My Future is in Amer­i­ca: Auto­bi­ogra­phies of East­ern Euro­pean Jew­ish Immigrants
    Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer, ed. and trans.
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    Roo­sevelt and the Holocaust
    Robert L. Beir, Brian Josepher
    Cover of Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs, Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink
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    Beyond Glo­ry: Joe Louis vs, Max Schmel­ing, and a World on the Brink
    David Margolick
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    Redemp­tion: The Life of Hen­ry Roth
    Steven G. Kellman
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    Aliya: Three Gen­er­a­tions of Amer­i­can-Jew­ish Immi­gra­tion to Israel
    Liel Lei­bovitz
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    Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews and the 1991 Brook­lyn Riot
    Edward S. Shapiro
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    Beat­ing Around the Bush
    Art Buchwald
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