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American Jewish Studies

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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
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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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The Base­ball Tal­mud: A Defin­i­tive Posi­tion-By-Posi­tion Rank­ing of Base­bal­l’s Cho­sen Players
Howard Megdal
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An Amer­i­can Expe­ri­ence: Ade­line Moses Loeb and Her Ear­ly Amer­i­can Jew­ish Ancestors
John L. Loeb, Jr., Kathy L. Plotkin, Margaret Loeb Kempner, Judith E. Endelman
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We Remem­ber With Rev­er­ence and Love: Amer­i­can Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holo­caust, 1945 – 1962
Hasia R. Diner
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97 Orchard: An Edi­ble His­to­ry of Five Immi­grant Fam­i­lies in One New York Tenement
Jane Ziegelman
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Cos­mopoli­tans: A Social & Cul­tur­al His­to­ry of the Jews of the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area
Fred Rosenbaum
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Doubt­ing the Devout: The Ultra-Ortho­dox in the Jew­ish Amer­i­can Imagination
Nora L. Rubel
Cover of Postville U.S.A.:Surviving Diversity in Small-Town America
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Postville U.S.A.:Surviving Diver­si­ty in Small-Town America
Mark Grey, Michele Devlin, and Aaron Goldsmith
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Yid­dish Lit­er­a­ture in Amer­i­ca: 1870 – 2000
Emanuel S. Goldsmith; Barnett Zumoff, trans.
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Is Diss a Sys­tem?: A Milt Gross Com­ic Reader
Milt Gross: Ari Y. Kelman, ed.
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Amer­i­ca’s Great Delis: Recipes and Tra­di­tions from Coast to Coast
Sheryll Bell­man
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Scor­pi­ons: The Bat­tles and the Tri­umphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices
Noah Feldman
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