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American Jewish Studies

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The Kosher Capones: A His­to­ry of Chicago’s Jew­ish Gangsters
Joe Kraus
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The Art of Bible Translation
Robert Alter
Interview

Queer Iden­ti­ty in Jew­ish His­to­ry: An Inter­view with Noam Sienna 

An inter­view about an anthol­o­gy explor­ing mar­gin­al­ized voic­es in Jew­ish history

Sacha Lamb
June 11, 2019
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Amer­i­ca’s Jew­ish Women: A His­to­ry from Colo­nial Times to Today
Pamela S. Nadell
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Chil­dren’s
Hedy and Her Amaz­ing Invention
Jan Wahl
Mor­gana Wal­lace, illus.
Essay

Mar­i­lyn Sachs, For­got­ten Pio­neer in Chil­dren’s Literature 

At a time when chil­dren’s lit­er­a­ture was filled with pic­ture-per­fect fam­i­lies, Mar­i­lyn Sachs paint­ed a dark­er, rich­er reality.

Emi­ly Schneider
June 3, 2019
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Not Bad for Delancey Street: The Rise of Bil­ly Rose
Mark Cohen
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Chil­dren’s
Pavel and the Tree Army
Heidi Smith Hyde; Elisa Vavouri, illus.
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Fic­tion
Noth­ing is Forgotten
Peter Gold­en
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The Soul of Judaism: Jews of African Descent in America
Bruce D. Haynes
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On Mid­dle Ground: A His­to­ry of the Jews of Baltimore
Eric L. Goldstein and Deborah R. Weiner
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Beyond Chris­mukkah: The Chris­t­ian-Jew­ish Inter­faith Fam­i­ly in the Unit­ed States
Samira K. Mehta
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God Is In the Crowd: Twen­ty-First Cen­tu­ry Judaism
Tal Keinan
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The Jew­ish Amer­i­can Para­dox: Embrac­ing Choice in a Chang­ing World
Robert Mnookin
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In World War II-Era North Car­oli­na, A Haven for Ger­man Jew­ish Artists and Academics

Charles Dar­went
November 6, 2018
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The New Amer­i­can Judaism: How Jews Prac­tice Their Reli­gion Today
Jack Wertheimer
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