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American Jewish Experiences Nonfiction A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg Nathaniel Deutsch, Michael Casper Nonfiction A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious Roya Hakakian Nonfiction All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business Mel Brooks Nonfiction Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America Rachel Kranson Nonfiction American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption Gabrielle Glaser Nonfiction American Jewish Thought Since 1934: Writings on Identity, Engagement, and Belief Edited by Michael Marmur and David Ellenson Nonfiction American Jewry: Transcending the European Experience Christian Wiese and Cornelia Wilhelm Nonfiction American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York Nomi M. Stolzenberg, David N. Myers Nonfiction Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities Emily Tamkin Nonfiction Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice Rachel B. Gross Nonfiction Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue Terrence L. Johnson; Jacques Berlinerblau Nonfiction Bound in the Bond of Life: Pittsburgh Writers Reflect on the Tree of Life Tragedy Beth Kissileff and Eric Lidji (eds.) Nonfiction Camp Girls: Fireside Lessons in Friendship, Courage, and Loyalty Iris Krasnow Nonfiction Citizen 865 Debbie Cenziper Nonfiction City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York Tyler Anbinder Nonfiction City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement Sara Yael Hirschhorn Nonfiction Coming to Terms with America: Essays on Jewish History, Religion, and Culture Jonathan D. Sarna Nonfiction Consumer Culture and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity Gideon Reuveni Nonfiction Devil's Mile: The Rich, Gritty History of the Bowery Alice Sparberg Alexiou Nonfiction Esther in America Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern (editor) Nonfiction Hebrew Infusion Sarah Bunin Benor, Jonathan B. Krasner, Sharon Avni Nonfiction High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic Glenn Frankel Nonfiction Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law James Q. Whitman Nonfiction Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America Steven J. Ross Nonfiction Hollywood's Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles Laura B. Rosenzweig Fiction How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish Ilan Stavans, Josh Lambert Nonfiction Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero Roy Schwartz Nonfiction It Could Happen Here: Why America Is Tipping From Hate To The Unthinkable And How We Can Stop It Jonathan Greenblatt Nonfiction Jewish Comedy: A Serious History Jeremy Dauber Finalist for the 2018 Natan Book Award Nonfiction Jewish Identity in American Art: A Golden Age Since the 1970's Matthew Baigell Nonfiction Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court, from Brandeis to Kagan David G. Dalin Nonfiction Journeys: An American Story Andrew Tisch & Mary Skafidas Nonfiction Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew Michael W. Twitty Nonfiction Let There Be Laughter Michael Krasny Nonfiction Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation Claudio Lomnitz Nonfiction Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multi-Racial Jewish Family Laura Arnold Leibman Nonfiction Pennies for Heaven: The History of American Synagogues and Money Daniel Judson Nonfiction Raising Secular Jews: Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917-1950 Naomi Prawer Kadar Nonfiction Salo Baron: The Past and Future of Jewish Studies in America Rebecca Kobrin Nonfiction Satisfaction Guaranteed: How Zingerman's Built a Corner Deli into a Global Food Community Micheline Maynard Nonfiction Sewing the Fabric of Statehood: Garment Unions, American Labor, and the Establishment of the State of Israel Adam M. Howard Nonfiction Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood Mark Oppenheimer Nonfiction The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution Lila Corwin Berman Nonfiction The Chosen Wars: How Judaism Became an American Religion Steven R. Weisman Nonfiction The Chronicles of The Last Jewish Gangster: From Meyer to Myron Myron Sugerman Nonfiction The Foundations of American Jewish Liberalism Kenneth D. Wald Nonfiction The Jews of Harlem Jeffrey S. Gurock Nonfiction The Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers, and Revolutionaries (1823-1969) Arlo Haskell Nonfiction The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature Josh Lambert Nonfiction The Lost Family: How DNA Testing is Upending Who We Are Libby Copeland Nonfiction They Left It All Behind: Trauma, Loss, and Memory Among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and Their Children Hannah Hahn Nonfiction The Politics of American Jews Herbert F. Weisberg Nonfiction The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture Samantha Baskind Nonfiction Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle against Racial and Religious Discrimination David E. Lowe Nonfiction Wandering Dixie: Dispatches from the Lost Jewish South Sue Eisenfeld Nonfiction Warm and Welcoming: How the Jewish Community Can Become Truly Diverse and Inclusive in the 21st Century Warren Hoffman, Miriam Steinberg-Egeth Nonfiction When Basketball Was Jewish Douglas Stark Nonfiction When Rabbis Bless Congress: The Great American Story of Jewish Prayers on Capitol Hill Howard Mortman Nonfiction Who Will Lead Us?: The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America Samuel C. Heilman Nonfiction A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs David Lehman Nonfiction A Hundred Acres of America: The Geography of Jewish American Literary History Michael Hoberman Nonfiction American Jewish History: A JPS Guide Norman H. Finkelstein Nonfiction America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today Pamela S. Nadell Nonfiction Headlines: Halachic Debates of Current Events Dovid Lichtenstein Nonfiction History Lessons: The Creation of American Jewish Heritage Beth S. Wenger Nonfiction How Jews Became White Folks: And What That Says About Race in America Karen Brodkin Nonfiction How to Fight Anti-Semitism Bari Weiss Nonfiction Irving Berlin: New York Genius James Kaplan Nonfiction I Want You to Know We're Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir Esther Safran Foer Nonfiction Jew Vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry Samuel G. Freedman Nonfiction Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition Marni Davis Nonfiction Jews and the Civil War: A Reader Jonathan D. Sarna & Adam Mendelsohn, eds. Nonfiction Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America's Food Answers to a Higher Authority Sue Fishkoff Nonfiction Our Exodus: Leon Uris and the Americanization of Israel's Founding Story M.M. Silver Nonfiction Recovering "Yiddishland": Threshold Moments in American Literature Merle L. Bachman Nonfiction Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity Lila Corwin Berman Nonfiction The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town Edward Berenson Nonfiction The SPHAS: The Life and Times of Basketball’s Greatest Jewish Team Douglas Stark
Nonfiction A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg Nathaniel Deutsch, Michael Casper
Nonfiction American Jewish Thought Since 1934: Writings on Identity, Engagement, and Belief Edited by Michael Marmur and David Ellenson
Nonfiction American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York Nomi M. Stolzenberg, David N. Myers
Nonfiction Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue Terrence L. Johnson; Jacques Berlinerblau
Nonfiction Bound in the Bond of Life: Pittsburgh Writers Reflect on the Tree of Life Tragedy Beth Kissileff and Eric Lidji (eds.)
Nonfiction Coming to Terms with America: Essays on Jewish History, Religion, and Culture Jonathan D. Sarna
Nonfiction Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law James Q. Whitman
Nonfiction Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America Steven J. Ross
Nonfiction Hollywood's Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles Laura B. Rosenzweig
Nonfiction Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero Roy Schwartz
Nonfiction It Could Happen Here: Why America Is Tipping From Hate To The Unthinkable And How We Can Stop It Jonathan Greenblatt
Nonfiction Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multi-Racial Jewish Family Laura Arnold Leibman
Nonfiction Raising Secular Jews: Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917-1950 Naomi Prawer Kadar
Nonfiction Satisfaction Guaranteed: How Zingerman's Built a Corner Deli into a Global Food Community Micheline Maynard
Nonfiction Sewing the Fabric of Statehood: Garment Unions, American Labor, and the Establishment of the State of Israel Adam M. Howard
Nonfiction Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood Mark Oppenheimer
Nonfiction The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution Lila Corwin Berman
Nonfiction The Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers, and Revolutionaries (1823-1969) Arlo Haskell
Nonfiction They Left It All Behind: Trauma, Loss, and Memory Among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and Their Children Hannah Hahn
Nonfiction Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle against Racial and Religious Discrimination David E. Lowe
Nonfiction Warm and Welcoming: How the Jewish Community Can Become Truly Diverse and Inclusive in the 21st Century Warren Hoffman, Miriam Steinberg-Egeth
Nonfiction When Rabbis Bless Congress: The Great American Story of Jewish Prayers on Capitol Hill Howard Mortman
Nonfiction A Hundred Acres of America: The Geography of Jewish American Literary History Michael Hoberman
Nonfiction Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America's Food Answers to a Higher Authority Sue Fishkoff
Nonfiction Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity Lila Corwin Berman
