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    American Jewish Studies

    Cover of Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America's Food Answers to a Higher Authority
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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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    Hank Green­berg: The Hero Who Did­n’t Want to Be One
    Mark Kurlansky
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    Amer­i­can Jew­ry’s Com­fort Lev­el: Present and Future
    Manfred Gerstenfeld and Steven Bayme, eds.
    Cover of American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States
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    Amer­i­can Hebrew Lit­er­a­ture: Writ­ing Jew­ish Nation­al Iden­ti­ty in the Unit­ed States
    Michael Weingrad; Alan Mintz, fwd.
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    New Essays in Amer­i­can Jew­ish History
    Pamela S. Nadell, Jonathan D. Sarna and Lance J. Sussman, eds.
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    The Jew­ish Graph­ic Nov­el: Crit­i­cal Approaches
    Samantha Baskind and Ranen Omer-Sherman, eds.
    Cover of Promised Lands: New Jewish American Fiction on Longing and Belonging
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    Promised Lands: New Jew­ish Amer­i­can Fic­tion on Long­ing and Belonging
    Derek Rubin, ed.
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    Mate­r­i­al Cul­ture and Jew­ish Thought in America
    Ken Koltun-Fromm
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    His­to­ry Lessons: The Cre­ation of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Heritage
    Beth S. Wenger
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    Ortho­dox Jews in America
    Jeffrey S. Gurock
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    Trans­form­ing Amer­i­ca’s Israel Lob­by: The Lim­its of its Pow­er and the Poten­tial for Change
    Dan Fleshler
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    Nixon and Israel: Forg­ing a Con­ser­v­a­tive Partnership
    Noam Kochavi
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    Speak­ing of Jews: Rab­bis, Intel­lec­tu­als, and the Cre­ation of an Amer­i­can Pub­lic Identity
    Lila Corwin Berman
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