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    American Jewish Studies

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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
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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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    The Hunger Artist: A Sub­ur­ban Childhood
    Joanne Jacobson
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    Zion in the Desert: Amer­i­can Jews in Israel’s Reform Kibbutzim
    William F.S. Miles
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    In the Shad­ow of Race: Jews, Lati­nos, and Immi­grant Pol­i­tics in the Unit­ed States
    Victoria Hattam
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    Kab­bal­ah and the Spir­i­tu­al Quest: The Kab­bal­ah Cen­tre in America
    Jody Myers
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    White Eth­nic New York: Jews, Catholics and the Shap­ing of Post­war Politics
    Joshua M. Zeitz
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