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    American Jewish Studies

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    God Bless Amer­i­ca: The Sto­ry of an Immi­grant Named Irv­ing Berlin
    Adah Nuchi; Rob Polivka, illus.
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    Pen­nies for Heav­en: The His­to­ry of Amer­i­can Syn­a­gogues and Money
    Daniel Judson
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    A Father’s Sto­ry: My Fight for Jus­tice Against Iran­ian Terror
    Stephen M. Flatow
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    The Jew­ish Base­ball Card Book
    Bob Wechsler, Peter McDonald, & Martin Abramowitz
    Cover of Sewing the Fabric of Statehood: Garment Unions, American Labor, and the Establishment of the State of Israel
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    Sewing the Fab­ric of State­hood: Gar­ment Unions, Amer­i­can Labor, and the Estab­lish­ment of the State of Israel
    Adam M. Howard
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    Rac­ing Against His­to­ry: The 1940 Cam­paign for a Jew­ish Army to Fight Hitler
    Rick Rich­man
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    Res­cue Board: The Untold Sto­ry of Amer­i­ca’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
    Rebec­ca Erbelding
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    What Jus­tice Demands: Amer­i­ca and the Israeli-Pales­tin­ian Conflict
    Elan Journo
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    The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mys­te­ri­ous Euro­pean Show­man Saved Thou­sands of Amer­i­can Babies
    Dawn Raf­fel
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    Two Sis­ters of Coyoacan
    Rober­ta Satow
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    The War­saw Ghet­to in Amer­i­can Art and Culture
    Saman­tha Baskind
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    Famous Father Girl: A Mem­oir of Grow­ing Up Bernstein
    Jamie Bern­stein
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    We Are Going to Be Lucky: A World War II Love Sto­ry in Letters
    Eliz­a­beth L. Fox
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    Lil­lian Wald: Amer­i­ca’s Great Social and Health­care Reformer
    Paul M. Kaplan
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    Time­less Trav­els: Tales of Mys­tery, Humor, Intrigue and Enchantment
    Joseph Roten­berg
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    Count­ing on Amer­i­ca: A Holo­caust Mem­oir of Ter­ror, Chutz­pah, Romance and Escape
    Kurt Reiner and Gary Reiner
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