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American Jewish Studies

Cover of The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity
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The Price of White­ness: Jews, Race, and Amer­i­can Identity
Eric Goldstein
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Exiles on Main Street: Jew­ish Amer­i­can Writ­ers and Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary Culture
Julian Levinson
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Visu­al Arts
Action/​Abstraction: Pol­lack, De Koon­ing, and Amer­i­can Art, 1950 – 1976
Norman L. Kleeblatt, ed.
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Amer­i­can Jew­ish Fic­tion: A JPS Guide
Josh Lambert
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Mat­zoh Ball Gum­bo: Culi­nary Tales of the Jew­ish South
Marcie Cohen Ferris
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The Jews of Boston
Jonathan D. Sarna, Ellen Smith, Scott-Martin Kosofsky, eds.
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Visu­al Arts
A Time­less Peo­ple: Pho­to Album of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Life
Saul H. Landa
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Beyond the Façade: A Syn­a­gogue, A Restora­tion, A Legacy
Larry Bortniker, Roberta Brandes Gratz, and Bonnie Dimun
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In the Gar­den of Beasts: Love, Ter­ror, and an Amer­i­can Fam­i­ly in Hitler’s Berlin
Erik Larson
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Pas­sion­ate Pio­neers: The Sto­ry of Yid­dish Sec­u­lar Edu­ca­tion in North Amer­i­ca, 1910 – 1960
Fradle Pomerantz Freidenreich; Jonathan Sarna, fwd.
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The Syn­a­gogue in Amer­i­ca: A Short History
Marc Lee Raphael
Cover of The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education, 1910-1965
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The Women Who Recon­struct­ed Amer­i­can Jew­ish Edu­ca­tion, 1910 – 1965
Carol K. Ingall, ed.
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The Ben­der­ly Boys and Amer­i­can Jew­ish Education
Jonathan B. Krasner
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The Green­ing of Amer­i­can Ortho­dox Judaism: Yavneh in the 1960s
Benny Kraut
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A Secret Gift: How One Man’s Kind­ness– and a Trove of Let­ters– Revealed the Hid­den His­to­ry of the Great Depression
Ted Gup
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Pre­cious Objects: A Sto­ry of Dia­monds, Fam­i­ly, and a Way of Life
Ali­cia Oltuski
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