Items with the category: American Jewish Studies | Jewish Book Council

Cover of Most Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans' Home of New Orleans

Most Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans

Marlene Trestman

Cover of Hands of Gold: One Man's Quest to Find the Silver Lining in Misfortune

Hands of Gold: One Man’s Quest to Find the Silver Lining in Misfortune

Cover of The Sleep of Apples: A Novel

The Sleep of Apples: A Novel

Ami Sands Brodoff

Not From Here: The Song of America

Cover of Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age

Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age

Debby Applegate

Cover of Let Liberty Rise!: How America’s Schoolchildren Helped Save the Statue of Liberty

Let Liberty Rise!: How America’s Schoolchildren Helped Save the Statue of Liberty

Chana Stiefel, Chuck Groenink (Illustrator)

Essay

America’s First Jewish Astronaut

Kevin Cook

June 28, 2021

Cover of From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family

From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family

June Cummins, Alexandra Dunietz

Essay

My Hand on His Shoulder: A Descendant of Crypto-Jews Inserts Herself into the Historical Record

Kathleen Alcalá

June 21, 2021

Essay

Jewish Identity in Three Novels by E.L. Konigsburg

Emily Schneider

June 7, 2021

Cover of All I Could Never Be

All I Could Never Be

Anzia Yezierska

Cover of Philip Roth: A Counterlife

Philip Roth: A Counterlife

Cover of The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots that Shook New York City

The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots that Shook New York City

Scott D. Seligman

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Jewish Asian American Stories

Becca Kantor

March 19, 2021

Cover of The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution

The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution

Lila Corwin Berman

Cover of Yeshiva Days: Learning on the Lower East Side

Yeshiva Days: Learning on the Lower East Side

Jonathan Boyarin