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Nonfiction Promiscuous: Portnoy’s Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness Bernard Avishai
Children’s Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Idea: A Fairly Fabricated Story of a Pair of Pants Tony Johnston; Stacy Innerst, illus.
Nonfiction Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York Robin Shulman
Nonfiction Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination Mark Krupnick; Jean K. Carney; Mark Shechner, eds.
Nonfiction Wives Without Husbands: Marriage, Desertion, and Welfare in New York 1900 – 1935 Anna R. Igra
Nonfiction Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: A History in the American West Jeanne E. Abrams
Recommended Reading New Book Club Theme: Jews in America Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterA partial list is below. To view the complete list, please click here.A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American SongsAmerican… JBC Staff March 29, 2012
Nonfiction The Housing Divide: How Generations of Immigrants Fare in New York’s Housing Market Emily Rosenbaum; Samantha Friedman