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The City Game: Tri­umph, Scan­dal, and a Leg­endary Bas­ket­ball Team
Matthew Good­man
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The Amuse­ment Park: 900 Years of Thrills and Spills, and the Dream­ers and Schemers Who Built Them
Stephen M. Silverman
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Design­ing Babies: How Tech­nol­o­gy is Chang­ing the Ways We Cre­ate Children
Robert Klitz­man
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Super­man Is Jew­ish?: How Com­ic Book Super­heroes Came to Serve Truth, Jus­tice, and the Jew­ish-Amer­i­can Way
Har­ry Brod
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It’s Not All in a Name

Lisa Alcalay Klug​’s most recent book, Hot Mamalah: The Ulti­mate Guide for Every Woman of the Tribe, is now avail­able. She is also the author of Cool Jew: The Ulti­mate Guide…
Lisa Alcalay Klug
October 29, 2012
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From the Low­er East Side to Hol­ly­wood: Jews in Amer­i­can Pop­u­lar Culture
Paul Buhle
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Haunt­ed in the New World: Jew­ish Amer­i­can Cul­ture From Cahan to the Goldbergs
Donald Weber
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How the Left Lost Teen Spirit
Danny Goldberg
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Act­ing Jew­ish: Nego­ti­at­ing Eth­nic­i­ty on the Amer­i­can Stage and Screen
Henry Bial
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Vagi­na: A New Biography
Nao­mi Wolf
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Yid­dishe Mamas: The Truth about the Jew­ish Mother
Marnie Winston-Macauley
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We Killed: The Rise of Women in Amer­i­can Comedy
Yael Kohen
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In Their Own Image: New York Jews in Jazz Age Pop­u­lar Culture
Ted Mer­win
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Dis­guised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Cre­ation of the Superhero
Danny Fingeroth; Stan Lee, fwd.
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Up, Up and Oy Vey!: How Jew­ish His­to­ry, Cul­ture, and Val­ues Shaped the Com­ic Book Superhero
Sim­cha Weinstein
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Steven Spiel­berg
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