Items with the category: American Jewish Studies | Jewish Book Council

Cover of Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli

Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli

Cover of Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern

Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern

Cover of Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism

Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism

Adam S. Ferziger

Cover of God'll Cut You Down: The Tangled Tale of A White Supremacist, A Black Hustler, A Murder, And How I Lost A Year In Mississippi

God’ll Cut You Down: The Tangled Tale of A White Supremacist, A Black Hustler, A Murder, And How I Lost A Year In Mississippi

Essay

Dry Goods Merchant and Freedom Fighter: Samuel Fleishman of Marianna, FL

Earlier this week, Sabra Waldfogel wrote about the Jews who lived in Mound Bayou. Her most recent book is Freedom’s Island, about an all-black Mississippi town menaced…

Sabra Waldfogel

July 9, 2015

Essay

The Jews of Mound Bayou

Sabra Waldfogel writes historical fiction about Southern Jews and African Americans in slavery and freedom. Her most recent book, Freedom’s Island, about an all-black…

Sabra Waldfogel

July 6, 2015

Cover of Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World

Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World

Cover of Abraham: The World's First (But Certainly Not Last) Jewish Lawyer

Abraham: The World’s First (But Certainly Not Last) Jewish Lawyer

Alan Dershowitz

Cover of The Catskills: Its History and How It Changed America

The Catskills: Its History and How It Changed America

Raphael D. Silver

Stephen M. Silverman

Cover of Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century

Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century

Andrew Wender Cohen

Cover of The William Marvy Company of St. Paul: Keeping Barber Shops Classic

The William Marvy Company of St. Paul: Keeping Barber Shops Classic

Cover of I Didn't Tell Them Anything: The Wartime Secrets of an American Girl

I Didn’t Tell Them Anything: The Wartime Secrets of an American Girl

Cover of One Nation, Under Gods: A New American History

One Nation, Under Gods: A New American History

Cover of The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South

The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South

Cover of Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was

Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was

Interview

Interview: Jonathan D. Sarna

Lincoln and the Jews: A History by Jonathan D. Sarna and Benjamin Shapell chronicles the extraordinary relationship between President Abraham Lincoln and…

Elise Cooper

May 19, 2015