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Items with the category:

American Jewish Studies

Essay

Pluralism’s Para­dox

Emi­ly Tamkin
October 17, 2022
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Poet­ry
Ethel’s Song: Ethel Rosen­berg’s Life in Poems
Bar­bara Krasner
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Non­fic­tion
Blacks and Jews in Amer­i­ca: An Invi­ta­tion to Dialogue
Terrence L. Johnson; Jacques Berlinerblau
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Non­fic­tion
Salo Baron: The Past and Future of Jew­ish Stud­ies in America
Rebecca Kobrin
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Non­fic­tion
Becom­ing Ordi­nary: A Youth Born of the Holo­caust, A Youth Born of the Holo­caust, What I Kept, What I Let Go…
Michael Fox
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Once We Were Slaves: The Extra­or­di­nary Jour­ney of a Mul­ti-Racial Jew­ish Family
Lau­ra Arnold Leibman
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Non­fic­tion
Jew­ish Sol­diers in the Civ­il War: The Union Army
Adam D. Mendelsohn
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Zap! Bam! Swoosh! and So Much More: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Jere­my Dauber about Amer­i­can Comics

Saman­tha Baskind
December 27, 2021
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Com­ing to Terms with Amer­i­ca: Essays on Jew­ish His­to­ry, Reli­gion, and Culture
Jonathan D. Sarna
Essay

How Pol­ly Adler, the Jew­ish Jezebel of the Jazz Age, Became a Top­sy-Turvy Amer­i­can Suc­cess Story

Deb­by Applegate
November 22, 2021
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Non­fic­tion
The Philip Roth We Don’t Know: Sex, Race, and Autobiography
Jacques Berlinerblau
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Most For­tu­nate Unfor­tu­nates: The Jew­ish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans
Mar­lene Trestman
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Fic­tion
Hands of Gold: One Man’s Quest to Find the Sil­ver Lin­ing in Misfortune
Roni Rob­bins
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Fic­tion
The Sleep of Apples: A Novel
Ami Sands Brodoff
Non­fic­tion
Not From Here: The Song of America
Leah Lax
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Non­fic­tion
Madam: The Biog­ra­phy of Pol­ly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age
Deb­by Applegate
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