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Car­ol Poll

Car­ol Poll, Ph.D., is the retired Chair of the Social Sci­ences Depart­ment and Pro­fes­sor of Soci­ol­o­gy at the Fash­ion Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy of the State Uni­ver­si­ty of New York. Her areas of inter­est include the soci­ol­o­gy of race and eth­nic rela­tions, the soci­ol­o­gy of mar­riage, fam­i­ly and gen­der roles and the soci­ol­o­gy of Jews.
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A Jew­ish Fem­i­nine Mys­tique? Jew­ish Women in Post­war America
Hasia R. Diner, Shira Kohn, and Rachel Kranson, eds.
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Jews and the Civ­il War: A Reader
Jonathan D. Sarna & Adam Mendelsohn, eds.
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Fic­tion
Hush
Eish­es Chayil
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Ortho­dox By Design: Judaism, Print Pol­i­tics, and the Art Scroll Revolution
Jeremy Stolow
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Jew­ish Stud­ies: A The­o­ret­i­cal Introduction
Andrew Bush
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Jews at Home: The Domes­ti­ca­tion of Iden­ti­ty, Jew­ish Cul­tur­al Series, Vol­ume Two
Simon J. Bronner, ed.
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The Hadas­sah Ever­day Cook­book: Dai­ly Meals for the Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Kitchen
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New Essays in Amer­i­can Jew­ish History
Pamela S. Nadell, Jonathan D. Sarna and Lance J. Sussman, eds.
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Ortho­dox Jews in America
Jeffrey S. Gurock
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Tri-Faith Amer­i­ca: How Catholics and Jews Held Post­war Amer­i­ca to Its Protes­tant Promise
Kevin M. Schultz

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