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    American Jewish Studies

    Cover of America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
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    Amer­i­ca’s Jew­ish Women: A His­to­ry from Colo­nial Times to Today
    Pamela S. Nadell
    Essay

    Mar­i­lyn Sachs, For­got­ten Pio­neer in Chil­dren’s Literature 

    At a time when chil­dren’s lit­er­a­ture was filled with pic­ture-per­fect fam­i­lies, Mar­i­lyn Sachs paint­ed a dark­er, rich­er reality.

    Emi­ly Schneider
    June 3, 2019
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    Chil­dren’s
    Hedy and Her Amaz­ing Invention
    Jan Wahl
    Mor­gana Wal­lace, illus.
    Cover of Not Bad for Delancey Street: The Rise of Billy Rose
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    Not Bad for Delancey Street: The Rise of Bil­ly Rose
    Mark Cohen
    Cover of Pavel and the Tree Army
    Chil­dren’s
    Pavel and the Tree Army
    Heidi Smith Hyde; Elisa Vavouri, illus.
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    Fic­tion
    Noth­ing is Forgotten
    Peter Gold­en
    Cover of  The Soul of Judaism: Jews of African Descent in America
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    The Soul of Judaism: Jews of African Descent in America
    Bruce D. Haynes
    Cover of On Middle Ground: A History of the Jews of Baltimore
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    On Mid­dle Ground: A His­to­ry of the Jews of Baltimore
    Eric L. Goldstein and Deborah R. Weiner
    Cover of Beyond Chrismukkah: The Christian-Jewish Interfaith Family in the United States
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    Beyond Chris­mukkah: The Chris­t­ian-Jew­ish Inter­faith Fam­i­ly in the Unit­ed States
    Samira K. Mehta
    Cover of God Is In the Crowd: Twenty-First Century Judaism
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    God Is In the Crowd: Twen­ty-First Cen­tu­ry Judaism
    Tal Keinan
    Cover of The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing World
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    The Jew­ish Amer­i­can Para­dox: Embrac­ing Choice in a Chang­ing World
    Robert Mnookin
    Essay

    In World War II-Era North Car­oli­na, A Haven for Ger­man Jew­ish Artists and Academics

    Charles Dar­went
    November 6, 2018
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    The New Amer­i­can Judaism: How Jews Prac­tice Their Reli­gion Today
    Jack Wertheimer
    Cover of (((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump
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    (((Semi­tism))): Being Jew­ish in Amer­i­ca in the Age of Trump
    Jonathan Weis­man
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Magi­cian and the Spirits
    Deborah Noyes
    Cover of God Bless America: The Story of an Immigrant Named Irving Berlin
    Chil­dren’s
    God Bless Amer­i­ca: The Sto­ry of an Immi­grant Named Irv­ing Berlin
    Adah Nuchi; Rob Polivka, illus.
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