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A

A History of, and on, Their Own: Jewish Women in America

America and the Holocaust

American Freedom: A View from Jewish History

American Jews and the Origins of Cultural Pluralism

Americans and the Holocaust

Antisemitism: Its American Story

B

Beyond the Jewish Lobby: American Jews and American Politics after the 1960s

Black-Jewish Cooperation during the Civil Rights Era: Challenges to Minority Group Leadership

Blacks and Jews in U.S. History: Strangers and Neighbors

C

Closing the Gates, Building a Wall: What the History of Immigration Restriction against Jews Can Teach Us about American Nativism

D

Dogs and Jews Not Allowed: Antisemitism in U.S. History

F

"Forget Your Past": On Becoming American in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

"Funny, You Don't Look Jewish": Stereotypes and the Making of Modern Jewish Ethnicity

Fitting Memorials: American Jews Confront the Holocaust, 1945–1962

From Sophie Tucker to Sarah Silverman: The Subversive Tradition of Jewish Women Comedians

G

GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation

Good Liberals: A History of Black-Jewish Relations and Why It Matters

H

How Far Can Jews Wander? The Paradoxes of Modern Identity

I

Immigration in American Jewish History

J

Jewish Lobbyists and Immigration Policy in the Early Twentieth Century

Jews and Muslims in Christian America

Jews and Society in a Post-Holocaust World

Julius Rosenwald: Where African American and American Jewish History Meet

L

Liberal NIMBY: American Jews and Civil Rights in the North

N

Nazis, Red-Baiting, and Civil Rights: Jewish Americans' Emergence as Interracial Activists in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles

P

Peggy Guggenheim, Jewish Identity, and Modern Art in Postwar Venice

Prejudice and Philanthropy: The Rise of Catholic and Jewish Hospitals

R

Ready to Turn the World Upside Down: Radical Feminism and the Politics of Jewish Identity

S

Southern Jews and the Civil Rights Movement

T

"The White Mrs. Brown": Esther Brown and the Jewish Women of the Civil Rights Movement

The "Jewish" Cold War in America: Anxiety and Identity in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

The "Kidnapping" of Hildy McCoy: Jews, Catholics, and the Transatlantic Reverberations of the Holocaust

The Historical Legacy of American Jewish Mothers

The Jew as Other: Antisemitism in America

The Lower East Side and American Jewry: Bridging History and Memory

To Dream of Becoming a Judith: The Jewish Roots of Emma Goldman's Anarchism

U

Urban Origins of American Judaism

V

Vanishing Point: Picturing Chicago's Jewish Ghetto

W

Walkers in the City: New York Jewish Street Photographers

Wandering Jews: Peddlers and the Discovery of New Worlds

When Jews Fought against "Registries"—A Lesson for Today?

Y

Yiddish Heritage and the Jewish Role in American Popular Culture