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Michael Scott Alexander

Michael Scott Alexan­der is the Mai­monides Chair of Jew­ish Stud­ies a the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, River­side. He is the author of Jazz Age Jews, which won a Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award.

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