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    American Jewish Studies

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    Screen­ing a Lynch­ing: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television
    Matthew H. Bernstein
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    Our Exo­dus: Leon Uris and the Amer­i­can­iza­tion of Israel’s Found­ing Story
    M.M. Silver
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    The Base­ball Tal­mud: A Defin­i­tive Posi­tion-By-Posi­tion Rank­ing of Base­bal­l’s Cho­sen Players
    Howard Megdal
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    An Amer­i­can Expe­ri­ence: Ade­line Moses Loeb and Her Ear­ly Amer­i­can Jew­ish Ancestors
    John L. Loeb, Jr., Kathy L. Plotkin, Margaret Loeb Kempner, Judith E. Endelman
    Cover of We Remember With Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, 1945-1962
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    We Remem­ber With Rev­er­ence and Love: Amer­i­can Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holo­caust, 1945 – 1962
    Hasia R. Diner
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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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    Yid­dish Lit­er­a­ture in Amer­i­ca: 1870 – 2000
    Emanuel S. Goldsmith; Barnett Zumoff, trans.
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    Amer­i­ca’s Great Delis: Recipes and Tra­di­tions from Coast to Coast
    Sheryll Bell­man
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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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    Pre­lude to Cat­a­stro­phe: FDR’s Jews and the Men­ace of Nazism
    Robert Shogan
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    Jug­gling Iden­ti­ties: Iden­ti­ty and Authen­tic­i­ty Among the Crypto-Jews
    Seth D. Kunin
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