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American Jewish Studies

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Hen­ry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Bat­tle Against Hate Speech
Victoria Saker Woeste
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The Lega­cy of Moses and Akhenaten
Sheldon Louis Lebold
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Grow­ing Up Golem: How I Sur­vived My Moth­er, Brook­lyn, and Some Real­ly Bad Dates
Don­na Minkowitz
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Lady at the O.K. Cor­ral: The True Sto­ry of Josephine Mar­cus Earp
Ann Kirschn­er
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Augie’s Secrets: The Min­neapo­lis Mob and the King of the Hen­nepin Strip
Neal Karlen
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No Joke: Mak­ing Jew­ish Humor
Ruth R. Wisse
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Five Days at Memo­r­i­al: Life and Death In A Storm-Rav­aged Hospital
Sheri Fink
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Hol­ly­wood and Hitler, 1933 – 1939
Thomas Doher­ty
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From Ambiva­lence to Betray­al: The Left, the Jews, and Israel
Robert S. Wistrich
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Main­tain­ing Jew­ish Roots in the Military

by Elise Coop­erAlthough there are many themes to Ali­son Buck­holtz​’s book, Stand­ing By: The Mak­ing of an Amer­i­can Mil­i­tary Fam­i­ly in a Time of War, one that…
Elise Coop­er
May 1, 2013
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Dress­ing Mod­ern Mater­ni­ty: The Frank­furt Sis­ters of Dal­las and the Page Boy Label
Kay Goldman
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The Syn­a­gogues of New York’s Low­er East Side: A Ret­ro­spec­tive and Con­tem­po­rary View, Sec­ond Edition
Gerard R. Wolfe; Joseph Berger, fwd.
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Super­man Ver­sus the Ku Klux Klan: The True Sto­ry of How the Icon­ic Super­hero Bat­tled the Men of Hate
Richard Bowers
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Super­man: The High-Fly­ing His­to­ry of Amer­i­ca’s Most Endur­ing Hero
Lar­ry Tye
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The Amer­i­can Jew­ish Sto­ry through Cinema
Eric A. Goldman
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Moyni­han’s Moment: Amer­i­ca’s Fight Against Zion­ism as Racism
Gil Troy
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