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American Jewish Studies

Cover of In Their Own Image: New York Jews in Jazz Age Popular Culture
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In Their Own Image: New York Jews in Jazz Age Pop­u­lar Culture
Ted Mer­win
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State­craft: And How to Restore Amer­i­ca’s Stand­ing in the World
Den­nis Ross
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Race and Reli­gion Among the Cho­sen Peo­ples of Crown Heights
Henry Goldschmidt
Essay

Say­ing New Things About Old His­tor­i­cal Episodes

Ear­li­er this week, Dr. Jonathan Sar­na wrote about writ­ing his most recent book, When Gen­er­al Grant Expelled the Jews, in Jerusalem. He has been blog­ging here all week for…
Jonathan D. Sarna
March 15, 2012
Essay

Writ­ing the Civ­il War in Jerusalem

Dr. Jonathan Sar­na​’s newest book, When Gen­er­al Grant Expelled the Jews, is now avail­able. He will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and…
Jonathan D. Sarna
March 13, 2012
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Women Remak­ing Amer­i­can Judaism
Riv-Ellen Prell, ed.; David Weinberg, fwd.
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When Gen­er­al Grant Expelled the Jews
Jonathan D. Sarna
Cover of Radio and the Jews: The Untold Story of How Radio Influenced America's Image of Jews, 1920s-1950s
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Radio and the Jews: The Untold Sto­ry of How Radio Influ­enced Amer­i­ca’s Image of Jews, 1920s-1950s
David S. Siegel and Susan Siegel
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The Life of the Neigh­bor­hood Play­house on Grand Street
John P. Harrington
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The Red Leather Diary
Lily Koppel
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A Dream of Zion
Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, ed.
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Morn­ings at the Stan­ton Street Shul: A Sum­mer on the Low­er East Side
Jonathan Boyarin
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The Koch Papers: My Fight Against Anti-Semitism
Edward I. Koch with Rafael Medoff
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How to Spell Chanukah and Oth­er Hol­i­day Dilem­mas: Eigh­teen Writ­ers Cel­e­brate Eight Nights of Lights
Emily Franklin, ed.
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The Jew­ish Amer­i­cans: Three Cen­turies of Jew­ish Voic­es in America
Beth S. Wenger
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Hol­ly­wood’s Celebri­ty Gang­ster: The Incred­i­ble Life and Times of Mick­ey Cohen
Brad Lewis
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