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    American Jewish Studies

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    Mak­ing the Rev­o­lu­tion Jewish

    Adam Jort­ner
    August 19, 2024
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    Excerpt―Matrilineal Dis­sent: Women Writ­ers and Jew­ish Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary History

    Annie Atu­ra Bushnell, Lori Har­ri­son-Kahan, Ash­ley Walters
    August 12, 2024
    Cover of Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America
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    Open­ing Doors: The Unlike­ly Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America
    Hasia R. Diner
    Cover of The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism
    Non­fic­tion
    The Thresh­old of Dis­sent: A His­to­ry of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Crit­ics of Zionism
    Mar­jorie N. Feld
    Cover of We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience
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    We Are Free to Change the World: Han­nah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience
    Lyn­d­sey Stonebridge
    Cover of Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century
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    Car­ry­ing a Big Schtick: Jew­ish Accul­tur­a­tion and Mas­culin­i­ty in the Twen­ti­eth Century
    Miri­am Eve Mora
    Cover of Facing the Enemy: How a Nazi Youth Camp in America Tested a Friendship
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    Fac­ing the Ene­my: How a Nazi Youth Camp in Amer­i­ca Test­ed a Friendship
    Bar­bara Krasner
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    Post­war Sto­ries: How Books Made Judaism American
    Rachel Gor­dan
    Essay

    Post­war Anti-Anti­semitism Nov­els and the Women Behind Them

    Rachel Gor­dan
    April 1, 2024
    Essay

    ‘The Weapon of the Cul­tur­al Under­dog’: Mas­culin­i­ty and Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty in Mid-Cen­tu­ry Amer­i­can Letters

    Ron­nie A. Grinberg
    March 25, 2024
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    Walt Whit­man and the Mak­ing of Jew­ish Amer­i­can Poetry
    Dara Bar­nat
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    Forged in Amer­i­ca: How Irish-Jew­ish Encoun­ters Shaped a Nation
    Hasia R. Diner
    Miri­am Nyhan Grey
    Cover of The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance
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    The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lako­ta, and an Amer­i­can Inheritance
    Rebec­ca Clarren
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    Mor­gen­thau: Pow­er, Priv­i­lege, and the Rise of an Amer­i­can Dynasty
    Andrew Meier
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    Bet­ty Friedan: Mag­nif­i­cent Disrupter
    Rachel Shteir
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    For Women and Girls Only: Reshap­ing Jew­ish Ortho­doxy Through the Arts in the Dig­i­tal Age
    Jes­si­ca Roda
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