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American Jewish Studies

Cover of Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust
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Sav­ing the Jews: Franklin D. Roo­sevelt and the Holocaust
Robert N. Rosen
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Invent­ing Great Neck-Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty and the Amer­i­can Dream
Judith S. Goldstein
Cover of Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History
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Jew­ish Roots in South­ern Soil: A New History
Marcie Cohen Ferris and Mark I. Greenberg, eds.
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Jew Vs. Jew: The Strug­gle for the Soul of Amer­i­can Jewry
Samuel G. Freedman
Cover of Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball
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Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball
Rebecca T. Alpert
Cover of Pitching in the Promised Land: A Story of the First and Only Season in the Israel Baseball League
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Pitch­ing in the Promised Land: A Sto­ry of the First and Only Sea­son in the Israel Base­ball League
Aaron Pribble
Cover of Is It Good For The Jews?: The Crisis of America's Israel Lobby
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Is It Good For The Jews?: The Cri­sis of Amer­i­ca’s Israel Lobby
Stephen Schwartz
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Emma Lazarus
Esther Schor
Cover of Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century
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Trou­bling the Waters: Black-Jew­ish Rela­tions in the Amer­i­can Century
Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
Cover of An Uneasy Relationship: American Jewish Leadership and Israel, 1948 - 1957
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An Uneasy Rela­tion­ship: Amer­i­can Jew­ish Lead­er­ship and Israel, 1948 — 1957
Zvi Ganin
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The Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty Project: New Amer­i­can Photography
Susan Shevlowe, ed.
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A Breath of Life: Fem­i­nism in the Amer­i­can Jew­ish Community
Sylvia Barack Fishman
Cover of My Future is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants
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My Future is in Amer­i­ca: Auto­bi­ogra­phies of East­ern Euro­pean Jew­ish Immigrants
Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer, ed. and trans.
Cover of Roosevelt and the Holocaust
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Roo­sevelt and the Holocaust
Robert L. Beir, Brian Josepher
Cover of Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs, Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink
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Beyond Glo­ry: Joe Louis vs, Max Schmel­ing, and a World on the Brink
David Margolick
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Redemp­tion: The Life of Hen­ry Roth
Steven G. Kellman
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