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American Jewish Studies

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Spir­i­tu­al Rad­i­cal: Abra­ham Joshua Hes­chel in Amer­i­ca, 1940 – 1972
Edward K. Kaplan
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Fiorel­lo’s Sis­ter: Gem­ma Laguardia Gluck­’s Story
Rochelle G. Saidel, ed.
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Con­test­ing His­to­ries: Ger­man and Jew­ish Amer­i­cans and the Lega­cy of the Holocaust
Michael Schuldiner
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At The Edge of a Dream: The Sto­ry of Jew­ish Immi­grants on New York’s Low­er East Side: 1880 – 1920
Lawrence J. Epstein
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The Dead­liest Lies: The Israel Lob­by and the Myth of Jew­ish Control
Abraham H. Foxman
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The Trap: Sell­ing Out to Stay Afloat in Win­ner-Take-All America
Daniel Brook
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A Match Made in Heav­en: Amer­i­can Jews, Chris­t­ian Zion­ists, and One Man’s Explo­ration of the Weird and Won­der­ful Judeo-Evan­gel­i­cal Alliance
Zev Chafetz
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After Weegee Essays on Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Amer­i­can Photographers
Daniel Morris
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Abel Kivi­at, Nation­al Cham­pi­on: Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Track and Field and the Melt­ing Pot
Alan S. Katchen
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Jews and Base­ball: Vol­ume 1, Enter­ing the Amer­i­can Main­stream, 1871 – 1948
Burton A. Boxerman and Benita W. Boxerman; Martin Abramowitz, fwd.
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Get­ting Our Groove Back: How to Ener­gize Amer­i­can Jewry
Scott A. Shay
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Amer­i­can Jew­ish His­to­ry: A JPS Guide
Nor­man H. Finkelstein
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Ter­ror: How Israel Has Coped and What Amer­i­ca Can Learn
Leonard A. Cole
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Blas­phe­my: How the Reli­gious Right is Hijack­ing Our Dec­la­ra­tion of Independence
Alan Der­showitz
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The World in a City: Trav­el­ing the Globe Through the Neigh­bor­hoods of the New New York
Joseph Berg­er
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Star­dust Lost: The Tri­umph, Tragedy, and Meshugas of the Yid­dish The­ater in America
Stephen Kanfer
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