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American Jewish Studies

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“How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jew­ish Amer­i­can Iden­ti­ty in Con­tem­po­rary Graph­ic Memoirs
Tah­neer Oksman
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The Lady with the Bor­zoi: Blanche Knopf, Lit­er­ary Tastemak­er Extraordinaire
Laura Claridge
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Meant to Be: A Memoir
Rabbi Marvin Hier
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Amer­i­can Jew­ish His­to­ry: A Pri­ma­ry Source Reader
Gary Phillip Zola (Editor), Marc Dollinger (Editor)
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Pil­lar of Fire: A Biog­ra­phy of Rab­bi Stephen S. Wise
A. James Rudin
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Exit Right: The Peo­ple Who Left the Left and Reshaped the Amer­i­can Century
Daniel Oppen­heimer
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Sum­mer Haven: The Catskills, the Holo­caust and the Lit­er­ary Imagination
Holli Levitsky and Phil Brown, eds.
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Ben Shahn’s New Deal Murals: Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty in the Amer­i­can Scene
Diana L. Linden
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The Base­ball Hag­gadah: A Fes­ti­val of Free­dom and Spring­time in 15 Innings
Sharon G. Forman; Lisa J. Teitelbaum, illus.
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The Arab-Israeli Con­flict in Amer­i­can Polit­i­cal Culture
Jonathan Rynhold
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Young Lions: How Jew­ish Authors Rein­vent­ed the Amer­i­can War Novel
Leah Garrett
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Audac­i­ty
Melanie Crowder
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Gen­e­sis: Tru­man, Amer­i­can Jews, and the Ori­gins of the Arab/​Israeli Conflict
John B. Judis
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Noto­ri­ous RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg
Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik
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Met­ro­pol­i­tan Jews: Pol­i­tics, Race, and Reli­gion in Post­war Detroit
Lila Corwin Berman
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1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History
Jay Winik
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