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HIGHLIGHTS MARTY GLICKMAN
MY SECONDFAVORITE COUNTRY
The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend Jeffrey S. Gurock
248 PP | CLOTH | $28 9781479820870
“This engrossing, vibrant biography of Marty Glickman also explores the evolving identity of Jewish people in twentiethcentury America.” ~Foreword Reviews
How American Jewish Children Think About Israel Sivan Zakai Reveals how young American Jewish children come to develop their views about Israel 264 PP | PAPER | $25 9781479808984
A REVOLUTION IN TYPE
THE STATE OF DESIRE
Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press Ayelet Brinn
Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land Lea Taragin-Zeller
A fascinating glimpse into the complex and often unexpected ways that women and ideas about women shaped widely read Jewish newspapers 328 PP | CLOTH | $39 9781479817665
An intimate account of Orthodox family planning amid shifting state policies in Israel 200 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479817368
MILLENNIAL JEWISH STARS
FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS ONLY
Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy Jonathan Branfman
Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the Digital Age Jessica Roda
Highlights how millennial Jewish stars symbolize national politics in US media
How Hasidic and formerly Hasidic women have used media technologies to create a new musical and film market “for girls and women only”
320 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479820795
336 PP | CLOTH | $40 9781479809752
QUEER JUDAISM
320 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479810031
UNSETTLED
LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel Orit Avishai
American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine Oren Kroll-Zeldin
Offers a compelling look at how Orthodox Jewish LGBT persons in Israel became more accepted in their communities
Examines how young Jewish Americans’ fundamentally Jewish values have led them to organize in solidarity with Palestinians 288 PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479821457
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GOLDSTEIN-GOREN SERIES IN AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY FORGED IN AMERICA
THE THRESHOLD OF DISSENT
How Irish-Jewish Encounters Shaped a Nation Edited by Hasia R. Diner and Miriam Nyhan Grey
A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism Marjorie N. Feld
Explores the long history of anti-Zionist and nonZionist American Jews
Examines how Irish and Jewish Americans defined their place in a complex society. 288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479826070
288 PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479829316
BLACK POWER, JEWISH POLITICS
JEWS ACROSS THE AMERICAS
A Sourcebook, 1492–Present Edited by Adriana M. Brodsky and Laura Arnold Leibman
Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised Edition Marc Dollinger Highlights Jewish participation in the civil rights movement
552 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479819324
320 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479826896
COTTON CAPITALISTS
DUST TO DUST
A History of Jewish Death and Burial in New York Allan Amanik
American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era Michael R. Cohen
A revealing look at how death and burial practices influence the living
American Jewish merchants who concentrated in the nation’s most important economic sector 288 PP | CLOTH | $40 9781479879700
272 PP | CLOTH | $40 9781479800803
THE RAG RACE
320 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479814381
History of American Jewry from Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, and the United States
A ROSENBERG BY ANY OTHER NAME
How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire Adam D. Mendelsohn
A History of Jewish Name Changing in America Kirsten Fermaglich
Winner, 2016 Best First Book Prize from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Winner, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society
256 PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479867202
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HISTORY JEWISH SUNDAY SCHOOLS
264 PP | CLOTH | $39 9781479822270
HOLLYWOOD’S SPIES
Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America Laura Yares
The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles Laura B. Rosenzweig
Charts changes to Jewish education in the 19th century served as a site for the wholescale reimagining of Judaism itself
Finalist, Celebrate 350 Award in American Jewish Studies
In North American Religions
320 PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479855179
MAKING JUDAISM SAFE FOR AMERICA
OLD CANAAN IN A NEW WORLD
Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel Elizabeth Fenton
World War I and the Origins of Religious Pluralism Jessica Cooperman
224 PP | CLOTH | $39 9781479885008
A compelling story of how Judaism became integrated into mainstream American religion In Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History
Were indigenous Americans descendants of the lost tribes of Israel?
256 PP | PAPER | $25 9781479820481
JEWS ON THE FRONTIER
PASTRAMI ON RYE
Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity from the Jewish Book Council
Winner, 2017 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies presented by the Jewish Book Council In North American Religions
256 PP | PAPER | $20 9781479872558
JEWISH NEW YORK
THE JEWS OF HARLEM
The Remarkable Story of a City and a People Deborah Dash Moore, Jeffrey S. Gurock, Annie Polland, Howard B. Rock and Daniel Soyer
The Rise, Decline, and Revival of a Jewish Community Jeffrey S. Gurock The complete story of Jewish Harlem and its significance in American Jewish history
The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the city 512 PP | PAPER | $25 9781479802647
In North American Religions
An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli Ted Merwin
Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America Shari Rabin
208 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479835836
In Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History
320 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479890422
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HISTORY JEWS IN THE SOVIET UNION: A HISTORY
JEWS IN THE SOVIET UNION: A HISTORY
War, Conquest, and Catastrophe, 1939–1945, Volume 3 Oleg Budnitskii, David Engel, Gennady Estraikh, and Anna Shternshis
440 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781479819430
Provides a comprehensive history of Soviet Jewry during WWII
After Stalin, 1953–1967, Volume 5 Gennady Estraikh Offers an analysis of Soviet Jewish society after the death of Joseph Stalin 432 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781479819461
JEWISH SOLDIERS IN THE CIVIL WAR
A COLD WAR EXODUS
The Union Army Adam D. Mendelsohn
How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews Shaul Kelner
Offers an engaging account of the experiences of Jewish soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War 336 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781479812233
480 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781479879397
KABBALAH AND THE FOUNDING OF AMERICA
BALLOTS, BABIES, AND BANNERS OF PEACE
The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World Brian Ogren
American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890-1940 Melissa R. Klapper
Explores the influence of Kabbalah in shaping America’s religious identity 328 PP | CLOTH | $39 9781479807987
301 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479850594
KEEPING FAMILY SECRETS
Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s Margaret K. Nelson From teen pregnancy to gay sexuality and communism to disability, the startling secrets that families kept during the Cold War era 256 PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479815623
Reveals the mass mobilization tactics that helped free Soviet Jews and reshaped the Jewish American experience from the Johnson era through the Reagan–Bush years
Uncovers the powerful effects of 20th-century Jewish women’s social and political activism on contemporary American life
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CULTURE BEYOND THE SYNAGOGUE
FEASTING AND FASTING
Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice Rachel B. Gross
The History and Ethics of Jewish Food Jody Myers, Jordan D. Rosenblum and Aaron S. Gross
Reveals nostalgia as a new way of maintaining Jewish continuity
How Judaism and food are intertwined
In North American Religions 272 PP | PAPER | $24 9781479820511
384 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479827794
A RICH BREW
HANUKKAH IN AMERICA
How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture Shachar M. Pinsker
A History Dianne Ashton
Finalist, 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought and Experience, presented by the Jewish Book Council
Explores the ways American Jews have reshaped Hanukkah traditions across the country
384 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479874385
350 PP | CLOTH | $30 9780814707395
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HOLOCAUST POSTCARDS FROM AUSCHWITZ
THE HOLOCAUST ACROSS GENERATIONS
Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance Daniel P. Reynolds
Trauma and its Inheritance Among Descendants of Survivors Janet Jacobs
The uneasy link between tourism and collective memory at Holocaust museums and memorials
336 PP | PAPER | $25 9781479806034
320 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479839292
A MORTUARY OF BOOKS
The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust Elisabeth Gallas The astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the Holocaust 416 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781479833955
In Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History
Winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award for the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section presented by the American Sociological Association
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GOOD FOR COURSES HONEY ON THE PAGE
THE SOUL OF JUDAISM
A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature Edited and translated by Miriam Udel
352 PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479874132
Jews of African Descent in America Bruce D. Haynes A glimpse into the diverse stories of Black Jews in the United States
Winner, 2021 Reference & Bibliography Award in the ‘Reference’ Section, given by the Association of Jewish Libraries
In Religion, Race, and Ethnicity 272 PP | CLOTH | $40 9781479811236
JEWS AND THE CIVIL WAR
JEWISH RADICAL FEMINISM
A Reader Edited by Jonathan D. Sarna and Adam D. Mendelsohn
Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement Joyce Antler Finalist, 2019 PROSE Award in Biography, given by the Association of American Publishers
A unique collection revealing the experience of Jewish soldiers and civilians during the Civil War 445 PP | PAPER | $30 9780814771136
464 PP | PAPER | $25 9781479802548
CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL
320 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479828944
In Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History
WOMEN IN JUDAISM
New Insights and Scholarship Edited by Frederick E. Greenspahn
New Insights and Scholarship Edited by Frederick E. Greenspahn
The contradictions and competing views of modern Israel
Jewish women’s domestic, economic, intellectual, spiritual, and creative roles in Jewish life
In Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century
304 PP | PAPER | $30 9780814732199
In Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century
UNIVERSITY OF REGINA PRESS WHO GETS IN
THE LISTENER
An Immigration Story Norman Ravvin
In the Shadow of the Holocaust Irene Oore
One man’s immigration to the Canadian Prairies in the early 1930s
320 PP | PAPER | $27 9780889779228
A reflection on how trauma is passed from generation to generation.
160 PP | CLOTH | $20 9780889776531
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