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civil rights

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Excerpt: When Women Ran Fifth Avenue

Julie Satow
June 17, 2024
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Non­fic­tion
Write like a Man: Jew­ish Mas­culin­i­ty and the New York Intellectuals
Ron­nie A. Grinberg
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Fic­tion
Mighty Inside
Sundee T. Frazier
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The Social Jus­tice Torah Commentary
Bar­ry H. Block
Essay

Why the Per­son­al Becomes Polit­i­cal: Jews in Amer­i­can Politics

Ken­neth D. Wald
October 19, 2020
Interview

‘Touched with Fire’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with David E. Lowe

Edward Shapiro
September 7, 2020
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Wan­der­ing Dix­ie: Dis­patch­es from the Lost Jew­ish South
Sue Eisen­feld
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Touched with Fire: Mor­ris B. Abram and the Bat­tle against Racial and Reli­gious Discrimination
David E. Lowe
Civ­il Rights and Race 
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Jocie: South­ern Jew­ish Amer­i­can Princess, Civ­il Rights Activist
Joce­lyn Dan Wurzburg
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The Hands of Peace: A Holo­caust Survivor’s Fight for Civ­il Rights in the Amer­i­can South
Marione Ingram
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White Girl: A Sto­ry of School Desegregation
Clara Sil­ver­stein
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Fic­tion
Wave­land
Simone Zelitch
Cover of Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care About Jews, the South, and Civil Rights
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Car­oli­na Israelite: How Har­ry Gold­en Made Us Care About Jews, the South, and Civ­il Rights
Kim­ber­ly Mar­lowe Hartnett
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That Pride of Race and Char­ac­ter: The Roots of Jew­ish Benev­o­lence in the Jim Crow South
Caroline E. Light
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Risk­ing Every­thing: A Free­dom Sum­mer Reader
Michael Edmonds, ed.
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