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    American Jewish Studies

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    Once We Were Slaves: The Extra­or­di­nary Jour­ney of a Mul­ti-Racial Jew­ish Family
    Lau­ra Arnold Leibman
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    Jew­ish Sol­diers in the Civ­il War: The Union Army
    Adam D. Mendelsohn
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    Zap! Bam! Swoosh! and So Much More: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Jere­my Dauber about Amer­i­can Comics

    Saman­tha Baskind
    December 27, 2021
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    Com­ing to Terms with Amer­i­ca: Essays on Jew­ish His­to­ry, Reli­gion, and Culture
    Jonathan D. Sarna
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    How Pol­ly Adler, the Jew­ish Jezebel of the Jazz Age, Became a Top­sy-Turvy Amer­i­can Suc­cess Story

    Deb­by Applegate
    November 22, 2021
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    The Philip Roth We Don’t Know: Sex, Race, and Autobiography
    Jacques Berlinerblau
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    We Shall Build Anew: Stephen S. Wise, the Jew­ish Insti­tute of Reli­gion, and the Rein­ven­tion of Amer­i­can Lib­er­al Judaism
    Shirley Idel­son
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    On Account of Sex: Ruth Bad­er Gins­burg and the Mak­ing of Gen­der Equal­i­ty Law
    Philip­pa Strum
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    Malka­h’s Note­book: A Jour­ney into the Mys­ti­cal Aleph-Bet
    Mira Z. Amiras
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    Objects of Love and Regret: A Brook­lyn Story
    Richard Rabi­nowitz
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    Geneal­o­gy of a Mur­der: Four Gen­er­a­tions, Three Fam­i­lies, One Fate­ful Night
    Lisa Belkin
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    Awak­en­ings: Amer­i­can Jew­ish Transformations
    Ben­jamin Spratt
    Joshua Stan­ton
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    Refusenik: poems
    Lynn Mel­nick
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    Jews Across the Amer­i­c­as: A Source­book, 1492 – Present
    Adri­ana Brodsky
    Lau­ra Arnold Leibman
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    Woke Anti­semitism: How a Pro­gres­sive Ide­ol­o­gy Harms Jews
    David Bern­stein
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    Sears Crosstown in Mem­phis: From Cat­a­logues to a Concourse
    Bill Hal­tom
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