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American Jewish Studies

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Ben Hecht’s Jew­ish The­atre of Protest
Gar­rett Eisler
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Fear No Pharaoh: Amer­i­can Jews, the Civ­il War, and the Fight to End Slavery
Richard Kre­it­ner
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For Such a Time as This: On Being Jew­ish Today
Elliot Cos­grove
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Jew­ish Life in Patagonia

Jes­si­ca Ruetter
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Matri­lin­eal Dis­sent: Women Writ­ers and Jew­ish Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary History
Annie Atura Bushnell, Lori Harrison-Kahan, and Ashley Walters, eds.
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Mak­ing the Rev­o­lu­tion Jewish

Adam Jort­ner
August 19, 2024
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Excerpt―Matrilineal Dis­sent: Women Writ­ers and Jew­ish Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary History

Annie Atu­ra Bushnell, Lori Har­ri­son-Kahan, Ash­ley Walters
August 12, 2024
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Open­ing Doors: The Unlike­ly Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America
Hasia R. Diner
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The Thresh­old of Dis­sent: A His­to­ry of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Crit­ics of Zionism
Mar­jorie N. Feld
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We Are Free to Change the World: Han­nah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience
Lyn­d­sey Stonebridge
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Car­ry­ing a Big Schtick: Jew­ish Accul­tur­a­tion and Mas­culin­i­ty in the Twen­ti­eth Century
Miri­am Eve Mora
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Fac­ing the Ene­my: How a Nazi Youth Camp in Amer­i­ca Test­ed a Friendship
Bar­bara Krasner
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Amer­i­can Mac­cabee: Theodore Roo­sevelt and the Jews
Andrew Por­wanch­er
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Post­war Sto­ries: How Books Made Judaism American
Rachel Gor­dan
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Post­war Anti-Anti­semitism Nov­els and the Women Behind Them

Rachel Gor­dan
April 1, 2024
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‘The Weapon of the Cul­tur­al Under­dog’: Mas­culin­i­ty and Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty in Mid-Cen­tu­ry Amer­i­can Letters

Ron­nie A. Grinberg
March 25, 2024
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