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American Jewish Studies

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Bod­ies and Souls: The Trag­ic Plight of Three Jew­ish Women Forced into Pros­ti­tu­tion in the Americas
Isabel Vincent
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In Our Own Voic­es: A Guide to Con­duct­ing Life His­to­ry Inter­views with Amer­i­can Jew­ish Women
Jewish Women’s Archive, ed.
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Buried by the Times: The Holo­caust and Amer­i­ca’s Most Impor­tant Newspaper
Laurel Leff
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Jews and the Amer­i­can Soul: Human Nature in the 20th Century
Andrew R. Heinze
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Chil­dren’s
Reli­gion in America
Mary E. Williams, Editor
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Har­vey Pekar’s Cleveland
Harvey Pekar; Joseph Remnant, illus.
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Amer­i­can Dreams and Nazi Night­mares: Ear­ly Holo­caust Con­scious­ness and Lib­er­al Amer­i­ca 1957 – 1965
Kristen Fermaglich
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The Ellis Island Snow Globe
Erica Rand
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Chil­dren’s
Jew­ish Immi­grants 1880 – 1924: Com­ing to Amer­i­ca Series
Susan E. Haberle
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Bar Mitz­vah Dis­co: The Music May Have Stopped, But the Par­ty’s Nev­er Over
Roger Bennett, Nick Kroll, Jules Shell
Cover of You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South
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You Need a School­house: Book­er T. Wash­ing­ton, Julius Rosen­wald, and the Build­ing of Schools for the Seg­re­gat­ed South
Stephanie Deutsch
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Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holo­caust America
Eric J. Sundquist
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The Rab­bi’s Wife: The Reb­bet­zin in Amer­i­can Jew­ish Life
Shuly Rubin Schwartz
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Adven­tures in Yid­dish­land: Postver­nac­u­lar Lan­guage and Culture
Jeffrey Shandler
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Call it Eng­lish: The Lan­guages of Jew­ish Amer­i­can Literature
Hana Wirth-Nesher
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The ​“Berg­son Boys” and the Ori­gins of Con­tem­po­rary Zion­ist Militancy
Judith Tydor Baumel
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