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    American Jewish Studies

    Cover of How Jews Became White Folks: And What That Says About Race in America
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    How Jews Became White Folks: And What That Says About Race in America
    Karen Brodkin
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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
    Cover of The Passing Game: Queering Jewish American Culture
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    The Pass­ing Game: Queer­ing Jew­ish Amer­i­can Culture
    Warren Hoffman
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    Chil­dren’s
    The Jew­ish Americans
    Marissa Lingen
    Cover of An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank
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    An Unspeak­able Crime: The Pros­e­cu­tion and Per­se­cu­tion of Leo Frank
    Elaine Alphin
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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
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    The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bar­gain With the Bomb
    Avner Cohen
    Cover of When They Come For Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
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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
    Cover of The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election
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    The Cho­sen Peo­ples: Amer­i­ca, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election
    Todd Gitlin and Liel Leibovitz
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    Still Jew­ish: A His­to­ry of Women and Inter­mar­riage in America
    Keren R. McGinity
    Cover of Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television
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    Screen­ing a Lynch­ing: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television
    Matthew H. Bernstein
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    Danc­ing in the Dark: A Cul­tur­al His­to­ry of the Great Depression
    Morris Dickstein
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    Our Exo­dus: Leon Uris and the Amer­i­can­iza­tion of Israel’s Found­ing Story
    M.M. Silver
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