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American Jewish Studies

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Redemp­tion: The Life of Hen­ry Roth
Steven G. Kellman
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Aliya: Three Gen­er­a­tions of Amer­i­can-Jew­ish Immi­gra­tion to Israel
Liel Lei­bovitz
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Beat­ing Around the Bush
Art Buchwald
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Uncho­sen: The Hid­den Lives of Hasidic Rebels
Hella Winston
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Sephardic Amer­i­can Voic­es: Two Hun­dred Years of a Lit­er­ary Legacy
Diane Matza, ed.
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A Trea­sury of Sephardic Laws and Cus­toms: The Rit­u­al Prac­tices of Syr­i­an, Moroc­can, Judeo-Span­ish and Span­ish and Por­tuguese Jews of North America
Herbert C. Dobrinsky
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Sephardic Jews in Amer­i­ca: A Dias­poric History
Aviva Ben-Ur
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Right­eous Indig­na­tion: A Jew­ish Call for Justice
Or Rose, Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, Margie Klein, eds.
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How Jews Became White Folks: And What That Says About Race in America
Karen Brodkin
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The Jew­ish Americans
Marissa Lingen
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An Unspeak­able Crime: The Pros­e­cu­tion and Per­se­cu­tion of Leo Frank
Elaine Alphin
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The Pass­ing Game: Queer­ing Jew­ish Amer­i­can Culture
Warren Hoffman
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Ford vs. Sapiro

On Mon­day, Ned Beau­man wrote about Oscar Paniz­za. His debut nov­el, Box­er, Bee­tle (Blooms­bury), is now available.Hen­ry Ford might be the most…
Ned Beau­man
October 5, 2011
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The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bar­gain With the Bomb
Avner Cohen
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When They Come For Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Strug­gle to Save Sovi­et Jewry
Gal Beck­er­man
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Cap­i­tal­ism and the Jews
Jerry Z. Muller
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