Jewish Studies

JEWISH STUDIES

HISTORY Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945 –1955

Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust

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In the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies series

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MICHAEL J. BAZYLER AND FRANK M. TUERKHEIMER

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RELIGIOUS IDENTITY The New American Zionism

Gender in Judaism and Islam

THEODORE SASSON

Common Lives, Uncommon Heritage

Beth Baron, CUNY 384 PAGES • 1 B/W HALFTONE PAPER • 978-1-4798-0127-5 • $30.00 CLOTH • 978-1-4798-5326-7 • $79.00

Changing Faith The Dynamics and Consequences of Americans’ Shifting Religious Identities DARREN E. SHERKAT

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Losing Our Religion How Unaffiliated Parents Are Raising Their Children CHRISTEL J. MANNING

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Wade Clark Roof, University of California at Santa Barbara 256 PAGES • 2 TABLES PAPER • 978-1-4798-8320-2 • $26.00 CLOTH • 978-1-4798-7425-5 • $89.00

In the Secular Studies series

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Unclean Lips

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WINNER OF THE 2014 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS (JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL)

1929

WINNER OF THE 2014 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN AMERICAN JEWISH STUDIES (JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL)

Mapping the Jewish World

The Rag Race

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How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire

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In the Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

Jewish Review of Books

WINNER OF THE 2013 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN WOMEN’S STUDIES (JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL)

American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890 – 1940

The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South

MELISSA R. KLAPPER

CAROLINE E. LIGHT

Ann Pellegrini, author of Performance Anxieties

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The American Jewish Archives Journal 276 PAGES CLOTH • 978-1-4798-7643-3 • $35.00

In the Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

BENJAMIN SCHREIER

Through examining readings of key authors from across the canon of Jewish American literature and culture, The Impossible Jew interrogates how the concept of identity is critically put to work by identity-based literary study.

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FINALIST FOR THE 2013 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN AMERICAN JEWISH STUDIES (JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL)

Jews and Booze

Theatrical Liberalism Jews and Popular Entertainment in America “An important, original book that gets right to the heart of why Jews have been so disproportionately involved in popular performance.”

Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children’s Literature

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“A remarkable accomplishment…will stand for years to come as the definitive history of New York City’s early Jewish community.”

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Emerging Metropolis New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840–1920

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ANNIE POLLAND and DANIEL SOYER

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In the North American Religions series

Beth S. Wenger, University of Pennsylvania 368 PAGES • 47 ILLUSTRATIONS PAPER • 978-1-4798-1105-2 • $24.00 CLOTH • 978-0-8147-6770-2

Jews in Gotham New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920 – 2010 JEFFREY S. GUROCK

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New York Jews in the New World, 1654 –1865

Suffer the Little Children

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A History of the Jews of New York

MARNI DAVIS

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WINNER OF THE 2012 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD (NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL)

Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition “A comprehensive look at a little-discussed historical subject that can’t help but have a spring in its step.”

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FINALIST FOR THE 2014 SAMI ROHR PRIZE (JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL)

Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace

That Pride of Race and Character

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Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History

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In the Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

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The Impossible Jew

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Thomas Kessner, City University of New York Graduate Center 368 PAGES • 40 ILLUSTRATIONS PAPER • 978-1-4798-7846-8 • $24.00 CLOTH • 978-0-8147-3225-0

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