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American Jewish Studies

Cover of (((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump
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(((Semi­tism))): Being Jew­ish in Amer­i­ca in the Age of Trump
Jonathan Weis­man
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The Magi­cian and the Spirits
Deborah Noyes
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God Bless Amer­i­ca: The Sto­ry of an Immi­grant Named Irv­ing Berlin
Adah Nuchi; Rob Polivka, illus.
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Jour­neys: An Amer­i­can Story
Andrew Tisch & Mary Skafidas
Cover of Pennies for Heaven: The History of American Synagogues and Money
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Pen­nies for Heav­en: The His­to­ry of Amer­i­can Syn­a­gogues and Money
Daniel Judson
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A Father’s Sto­ry: My Fight for Jus­tice Against Iran­ian Terror
Stephen M. Flatow
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The Jew­ish Base­ball Card Book
Bob Wechsler, Peter McDonald, & Martin Abramowitz
Cover of Sewing the Fabric of Statehood: Garment Unions, American Labor, and the Establishment of the State of Israel
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Sewing the Fab­ric of State­hood: Gar­ment Unions, Amer­i­can Labor, and the Estab­lish­ment of the State of Israel
Adam M. Howard
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Rac­ing Against His­to­ry: The 1940 Cam­paign for a Jew­ish Army to Fight Hitler
Rick Rich­man
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Res­cue Board: The Untold Sto­ry of Amer­i­ca’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
Rebec­ca Erbelding
Cover of What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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What Jus­tice Demands: Amer­i­ca and the Israeli-Pales­tin­ian Conflict
Elan Journo
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The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mys­te­ri­ous Euro­pean Show­man Saved Thou­sands of Amer­i­can Babies
Dawn Raf­fel
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Two Sis­ters of Coyoacan
Rober­ta Satow
Cover of The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture
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The War­saw Ghet­to in Amer­i­can Art and Culture
Saman­tha Baskind
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Famous Father Girl: A Mem­oir of Grow­ing Up Bernstein
Jamie Bern­stein
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We Are Going to Be Lucky: A World War II Love Sto­ry in Letters
Eliz­a­beth L. Fox
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