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Cover of Hollywood's Celebrity Gangster: The Incredible Life and Times of Mickey Cohen

Hollywood’s Celebrity Gangster: The Incredible Life and Times of Mickey Cohen

Cover of The Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood

The Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood

Joanne Jacobson

Cover of Zion in the Desert: American Jews in Israel's Reform Kibbutzim

Zion in the Desert: American Jews in Israel’s Reform Kibbutzim

William F.S. Miles

Cover of In the Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States

In the Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States

Victoria Hattam

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Cover of The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry

The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry

Cover of The Soviet Jewish Americans

The Soviet Jewish Americans

Annelise Orleck

Cover of Imagining the American Jewish Community

Imagining the American Jewish Community

Jack Wertheimer, ed.

Cover of Home is Where You Find It: A Memoir

Home is Where You Find It: A Memoir

Benjamin Hirsch

Cover of Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity

Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity

Jonathan Freedman

Cover of Dough: A Memoir

Dough: A Memoir

Cover of Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride

Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary Ride

Cover of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

Jennifer B. Lee

Cover of Growing Up At Grossinger's

Growing Up At Grossinger’s

Tania Grossinger

Cover of Recovering "Yiddishland": Threshold Moments in American Literature

Recovering “Yiddishland”: Threshold Moments in American Literature

Merle L. Bachman

Cover of Manischewitz: The Matzo Family: The Making of an American Jewish Icon

Manischewitz: The Matzo Family: The Making of an American Jewish Icon

Laura Manischewitz Alpern; Jonathan D. Sarna, intro.