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    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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    Susan Goldman Rubin
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    Jews at Home: The Domes­ti­ca­tion of Iden­ti­ty, Jew­ish Cul­tur­al Series, Vol­ume Two
    Simon J. Bronner, ed.
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    When We Danced on Water
    Evan Fal­l­en­berg
    Cover of Hiding in the Spotlight: A Musical Prodigy's Story of Survival, 1941-1946
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    Hid­ing in the Spot­light: A Musi­cal Prodi­gy’s Sto­ry of Sur­vival, 1941 – 1946
    Greg Daw­son
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    Pulitzer: A Life in Pol­i­tics, Print, and Power
    James McGrath Morris
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    A Crit­ic’s Journey
    Ilan Sta­vans
    Cover of Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio in the United States
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    Sta­tion Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion: A Cul­tur­al His­to­ry of Yid­dish Radio in the Unit­ed States
    Ari Y. Kelman
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    George Gersh­win: An Inti­mate Portrait
    Walter Rimler
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    The Thought­ful Dress­er: The Art of Adorn­ment, the Plea­sures of Shop­ping, and Why Clothes Matter
    Linda Grant
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    A Knit­ter’s Home Com­pan­ion: A Heart­warm­ing Col­lec­tion of Sto­ries, Pat­terns, and Recipes
    Michelle Edwards; Jen Gotch, photographs
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    Leonard Bern­stein: The Polit­i­cal Life of an Amer­i­can Musician
    Barry Seldes
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    Leonard Bern­stein at Work: His Final Years, 1984 – 1990
    Steve J. Sherman
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    A Fine Romance: Jew­ish Song­writ­ers, Amer­i­can Songs
    David Lehman
    Cover of Messiahs of 1933: How American Yiddish Theatre Survived Adversity Through Satire
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    Mes­si­ahs of 1933: How Amer­i­can Yid­dish The­atre Sur­vived Adver­si­ty Through Satire
    Joel Schechter
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    The Gersh­wins’ Por­gy and Bess: A 75th Anniver­sary Edition
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