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American Jewish Studies

Cover of America's Soul in the Balance
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Amer­i­ca’s Soul in the Balance
Gregory J. Wallance
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Non­fic­tion
The Gersh­wins and Me
Michael Feinstein
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There Was A Fire: Jews, Music and the Amer­i­can Dream
Ben Sidran
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Visu­al Arts
Isaac Bashe­vis Singer and the Low­er East Side
Isaac Bashevis Singer; Bruce Davidson, photographs
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Non­fic­tion
The Dynam­ics of Amer­i­can Jew­ish His­to­ry: Jacob Rad­er Mar­cus’s Essays on Amer­i­can Jewry
Gary Phillip Zola, ed.
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Non­fic­tion
Jew­ish Maxwell Street Stories
Shuli Eshel and Roger Schatz
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Fic­tion
Awake & Singing: Six Great Amer­i­can Jew­ish Plays
Ellen Schiff, ed.
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Con­tem­po­rary Sephardic Iden­ti­ty in the Amer­i­c­as: An Inter­dis­ci­pli­nary Approach
Margalit Bejarano and Edna Aizenberg, eds.
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From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jew­ish Life in America
Michael Grunberger, ed.
Cover of The Jews of the United States: 1654 to 2000
Non­fic­tion
The Jews of the Unit­ed States: 1654 to 2000
Hasia R. Diner
Cover of From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture
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From the Low­er East Side to Hol­ly­wood: Jews in Amer­i­can Pop­u­lar Culture
Paul Buhle
Cover of Broadway: The American Musical
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Broad­way: The Amer­i­can Musical
Michael Kantor; Laurence Maslon
Cover of American Presidents, Religion and Israel
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Amer­i­can Pres­i­dents, Reli­gion and Israel
Paul Charles Merkley
Non­fic­tion
Who We Are: On Being (And Not Being) a Jew­ish Amer­i­can Writer
Derek Rubin, ed.
Non­fic­tion
The Provin­cials: A Per­son­al His­to­ry of Jews in the South
Eli N. Evans
Non­fic­tion
Pro­let­pen: Amer­i­ca’s Rebel Yid­dish Poets
Amelia Glaser; David Weintraub, eds.
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