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    Cover of Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy
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    Imper­mis­si­ble Pun­ish­ments: How Prison Became a Prob­lem for Democracy
    Judith Resnik
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    Excerpt: When Women Ran Fifth Avenue

    Julie Satow
    June 17, 2024
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    Write like a Man: Jew­ish Mas­culin­i­ty and the New York Intellectuals
    Ron­nie A. Grinberg
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    Mighty Inside
    Sundee T. Frazier
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    The Social Jus­tice Torah Commentary
    Bar­ry H. Block
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    Why the Per­son­al Becomes Polit­i­cal: Jews in Amer­i­can Politics

    Ken­neth D. Wald
    October 19, 2020
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    ‘Touched with Fire’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with David E. Lowe

    Edward Shapiro
    September 7, 2020
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    Wan­der­ing Dix­ie: Dis­patch­es from the Lost Jew­ish South
    Sue Eisen­feld
    Cover of Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle against Racial and Religious Discrimination
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    Touched with Fire: Mor­ris B. Abram and the Bat­tle against Racial and Reli­gious Discrimination
    David E. Lowe
    Civ­il Rights and Race 
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    Jocie: South­ern Jew­ish Amer­i­can Princess, Civ­il Rights Activist
    Joce­lyn Dan Wurzburg
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    The Hands of Peace: A Holo­caust Survivor’s Fight for Civ­il Rights in the Amer­i­can South
    Marione Ingram
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    White Girl: A Sto­ry of School Desegregation
    Clara Sil­ver­stein
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    Wave­land
    Simone Zelitch
    Cover of Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care About Jews, the South, and Civil Rights
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    Car­oli­na Israelite: How Har­ry Gold­en Made Us Care About Jews, the South, and Civ­il Rights
    Kim­ber­ly Mar­lowe Hartnett
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    That Pride of Race and Char­ac­ter: The Roots of Jew­ish Benev­o­lence in the Jim Crow South
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