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    American Jewish Studies

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    A Path to Jew­ish Survival
    Richard B. Stanger
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    Tikkun Ha’am: Repair­ing Our People
    Jef­frey K. Salkin
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    Farewell To South Shore
    Char­lene Wexler
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    For Women and Girls Only: Reshap­ing Jew­ish Ortho­doxy Through the Arts in the Dig­i­tal Age
    Jes­si­ca Roda
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    Not From Here: The Song of America
    Leah Lax
    Essay

    Jew­ish Sun­day Schools: A Fem­i­nist History

    Lau­ra Yares
    July 31, 2023
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    Birchers: How the John Birch Soci­ety Rad­i­cal­ized the Amer­i­can Right
    Matthew Dallek
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    The Jew­ish Deli: An Illus­trat­ed Guide to the Cho­sen Food
    Ben Nadler
    Essay

    Jew­ish Sum­mer Camp and the Myth of the ​“Seri­ous”

    San­dra Fox
    June 12, 2023
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    Books Like Sap­phires: From the Library of Con­gress Judaica Collection
    Ann Bren­er
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    Shan­da: A Mem­oir of Shame and Secrecy
    Let­ty Cot­tin Pogrebin
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    Pluralism’s Para­dox

    Emi­ly Tamkin
    October 17, 2022
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    Ethel’s Song: Ethel Rosen­berg’s Life in Poems
    Bar­bara Krasner
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    Blacks and Jews in Amer­i­ca: An Invi­ta­tion to Dialogue
    Terrence L. Johnson; Jacques Berlinerblau
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    Salo Baron: The Past and Future of Jew­ish Stud­ies in America
    Rebecca Kobrin
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    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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