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American Jewish Studies

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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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Jew­ish Major Lea­guers in Their Own Words: Oral His­to­ries of 23 Players
Peter Ephross with Martin Abramowitz
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The First and Final Night­mare of Sonia Reich: A Son’s Memoir
Howard Reich
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Telling the Lit­tle Secrets: Amer­i­can Jew­ish Writ­ing Since the 1980’s
Janet Handler Burstein
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Jew­ish Peo­ple and Books

Ear­li­er this week, Yehu­da Kurtzer wrote about a recent Com­men­tary arti­cle by Jack Wertheimer and the trans­mis­sion of mem­o­ry. He has been blog­ging here all week…
Yehu­da Kurtzer
June 8, 2012
Essay

The Future of the Past

Yehu­da Kurtzer is the author of Shu­va: The Future of the Jew­ish Past. He will blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.In a recent…
Yehu­da Kurtzer
June 4, 2012
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Gen­tile New York: The Images of Non-Jews Among Jew­ish Immigrants
Gil Ribak
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Scrib­blers on the Roof: Con­tem­po­rary Amer­i­can Jew­ish Fiction
Melvin Jules Bukiet; David G. Roskies, eds.
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Sweet and Low: A Fam­i­ly Story
Rich Cohen
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Act­ing Jew­ish: Nego­ti­at­ing Eth­nic­i­ty on the Amer­i­can Stage and Screen
Henry Bial
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Two Covenants: Rep­re­sen­ta­tion of South­ern Jewishness
Eliza R. L. McGraw
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The Com­pas­sion­ate Com­mu­ni­ty: Ten Val­ues to Unite America
Jonathan Miller
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The Left Hand of God: Tak­ing Back Our Coun­try From the Reli­gious Right
Michael Lerner
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Slid­ing to the Right: The Con­test for the Future of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Orthodoxy
Samuel C. Heilman
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Jew­ish Life in Small-Town Amer­i­ca: A History
Lee Shai Weissbach
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