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American Jewish Studies

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Is Diss a Sys­tem?: A Milt Gross Com­ic Reader
Milt Gross: Ari Y. Kelman, ed.
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97 Orchard: An Edi­ble His­to­ry of Five Immi­grant Fam­i­lies in One New York Tenement
Jane Ziegelman
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Cos­mopoli­tans: A Social & Cul­tur­al His­to­ry of the Jews of the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area
Fred Rosenbaum
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Doubt­ing the Devout: The Ultra-Ortho­dox in the Jew­ish Amer­i­can Imagination
Nora L. Rubel
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Postville U.S.A.:Surviving Diver­si­ty in Small-Town America
Mark Grey, Michele Devlin, and Aaron Goldsmith
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Amer­i­ca’s Great Delis: Recipes and Tra­di­tions from Coast to Coast
Sheryll Bell­man
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Pre­lude to Cat­a­stro­phe: FDR’s Jews and the Men­ace of Nazism
Robert Shogan
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Scor­pi­ons: The Bat­tles and the Tri­umphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices
Noah Feldman
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A Jew­ish Fem­i­nine Mys­tique? Jew­ish Women in Post­war America
Hasia R. Diner, Shira Kohn, and Rachel Kranson, eds.
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Kosher Nation: Why More and More of Amer­i­ca’s Food Answers to a High­er Authority
Sue Fishkoff
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Dreams of Nation­hood: Amer­i­can Jew­ish Com­mu­nists and the Sovi­et Biro­bidzhan Project, 1924 – 1951
Henry Felix Srebrnik
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Jug­gling Iden­ti­ties: Iden­ti­ty and Authen­tic­i­ty Among the Crypto-Jews
Seth D. Kunin
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Ortho­dox By Design: Judaism, Print Pol­i­tics, and the Art Scroll Revolution
Jeremy Stolow
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A Land of Big Dream­ers: Voic­es of Courage in America
Neil Waldman
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Amer­i­can Jew­ry’s Com­fort Lev­el: Present and Future
Manfred Gerstenfeld and Steven Bayme, eds.
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Amer­i­can Hebrew Lit­er­a­ture: Writ­ing Jew­ish Nation­al Iden­ti­ty in the Unit­ed States
Michael Weingrad; Alan Mintz, fwd.
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