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American Jewish Studies

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Jews on the Fron­tier: Reli­gion and Mobil­i­ty in Nine­teenth-Cen­tu­ry America
Shari Rabin
Essay

On Jew­ish Com­e­dy and Amer­i­can Jew­ish Success

Jere­my Dauber
November 3, 2017
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City on a Hill­top: Amer­i­can Jews and the Israeli Set­tler Movement
Sara Yael Hirschhorn
Essay

The Main­stream Press and Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Art

Matthew Baigell
June 6, 2017
Cover of The Implacable Urge to Defame: Cartoon Jews in the American Press, 1877-1935
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The Implaca­ble Urge to Defame: Car­toon Jews in the Amer­i­can Press, 1877 – 1935
Matthew Baigell
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Jew­ish In America
Richard L. Rubin
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Jew­ish Jus­tices of the Supreme Court, from Bran­deis to Kagan
David G. Dalin
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Hybrid Judaism
Dar­ren Kleinberg
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When Bas­ket­ball Was Jewish
Dou­glas Stark
Cover of Hollywood's Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles
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Hol­ly­wood’s Spies: The Under­cov­er Sur­veil­lance of Nazis in Los Angeles
Lau­ra B. Rosenzweig
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Dias­po­ra Boy: Comics on Cri­sis in Amer­i­ca and Israel
Eli Val­ley
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Amer­i­can Jew­ry: Tran­scend­ing the Euro­pean Experience
Christian Wiese and Cornelia Wilhelm
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Who Will Lead Us?: The Sto­ry of Five Hasidic Dynas­ties in America
Samuel C. Heilman
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Set in Stone: Amer­i­ca’s Embrace of the Ten Commandments
Jenna Weissman Joselit
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Hitler in Los Ange­les: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hol­ly­wood and America
Steven J. Ross
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Gertrude Weil: Jew­ish Pro­gres­sive in the New South
Leonard Rogoff
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