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American Judaism: A History by Jonathan D Sarna Publisher Comments This magisterial work chronicles the 350-year history of the Jewish religion in America. Tracing American Judaism from its origins in the colonial era through the present day, Jonathan Sarna explores the ways in which Judaism adapted in this new context.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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When General Grant Expelled the Jews by Jonathan D Sarna Publisher Comments A riveting account of General Ulysses S. Grant’s decision, in the middle of the Civil War, to order the expulsion of all Jews from the territory under his command, and the reverberations of that decision on Grant’s political career, on the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Number Our Days (Touchstone Books) by Barbara G Myerhoff Publisher Comments When noted anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff received a grant to explore the process of aging, she decided to study some elderly Jews from Venice, California, rather than to report on a more exotic people. The story of the rituals and lives of these... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far West by Harriet Rochlin Publisher Comments The colorful history of Jewish settlers in the American West, with rare period photographs.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Suddenly Jewish: Jews Raised as Gentiles Discover Their Jewish Roots by Barbara Kessel Publisher Comments One woman learned on the eve of her Roman Catholic wedding. One man as he was studying for the priesthood. Madeleine Albright famously learned from the Washington Post when she was named Secretary of State. What is it like to find out you are not who you... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $13.30 Google eBooks - Electronic
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American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust by Melvin I Urofsky Publisher Comments Theodore Herzl, a Vienna journalist, realized that anti-Semitism, dramatically illustrated by the Dreyfus Affair in 1890s France, would never be stemmed by the attempts of Jews to assimilate. The publication of his Der Judenstaat in 1896 began the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lake Effect by Rich Cohen Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Great Lakes Book Award and the 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library Raised in an affluent suburb on the North Shore of Chicago, Rich Cohen had a cluster of interesting friends, but none more... (read more) List Price $11.75 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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King of the Jews: The Greatest Mob Story Never Told by Nick Tosches Publisher Comments Flamboyant mobster Arnold Rothstein was gambling and money. He was the inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby and Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls. It was rumored he masterminded the 1919 World Series fix. He was Mr. Broadway, a king of... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World by Kati Marton Publisher Comments Traces the early twentieth century journey of nine men from Budapest--including Edward Teller, Robert Capa, and Michael Curtiz--who fled fascism and anti-Semitism to seek sanctuary in America, where they made pivotal contributions to such causes as the... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer by Derek Rubin Publisher Comments This unprecedented collection brings together the major Jewish American writers of the past fifty years as they examine issues of identity and how theyve made their work respond. E.L. Doctorow questions the very notion of the Jewish American writer... (read more) List Price $23.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Contemporary Jewish Philanthropy in America by Barry Alexander Kosmin Publisher Comments Contemporary Jewish Philanthropy in America provides a comprehensive overview of how Tzedakah-the obligation to give, to share, to help-can be understood, taught and realized in contemporary society. The chapters in this book examine the social sources... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $52.94 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Insecure Prosperity: Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940 by Ewa Morawska Publisher Comments This captivating story of the Jewish community in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, reveals a pattern of adaptation to American life surprisingly different from that followed by Jewish immigrants to metropolitan areas. Although four-fifths of Jewish immigrants... (read more) List Price $77.50 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Playing Right Field: A Jew Grows in Greenwich by George Tabb Publisher Comments "Playing Right Field" refers to an early experience of the author and his brother, Lloyd, who played Little League together; they were forced to share one team T-shirt because their father the multimillionaire was too cheap to buy one for each of them.... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Biblical People in the Bible Belt: The Jewish Community of Memphis, Tennessee, 1840-1960s by Selma S. Lewis Publisher Comments As both a historian and a member of the community about which she writes, Selma S. Lewis narrates the life of Jews in Memphis from the antebellum period through the civil rights movements of the 1960s. She poignantly describes the origins and development... (read more) List Price $44.75 Your price: $7.25 Used - Hardcover
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Rescuing the World: The Life and Times of Leo Cherne by Andrew Smith Publisher Comments Leo Cherne's life brimmed with paradox and improbability. He was born in the Bronx to a poor, immigrant, Jewish family, and yet rose to the heights of economic and political power in WASP America. A successful entrepreneur and an unofficial advisor to... (read more) List Price $24.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Shanda: The Making and Breaking of a Self-Loathing Jew by Neal Karlen Publisher Comments Early in his memoir, Neal Karlen tells a rabbi, "I love Judaism. It's Jews I can't stand." What he means is that he hates the parochialism and material trappings of the young Jews he knows: Their new temples are gilded and the parking lots spill over... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Centennial #84: Jewish Stars in Texas: Rabbis and Their Work by Hollace Ava Weiner Publisher Comments Texas Jews may be only a small proportion of the state's population, but their leaders have often shone as unlikely stars in this Bible Belt state. Grounded in the culture that gave rise to Christianity and thus sharing many of the community's values... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Jewish Stars in Texas: Rabbis and Their Work by Hollace Ava Weiner Publisher Comments Only a fraction of Texans are Jewish, yet Texas rabbis are among the most influential, colorful, and celebrated figures in the state's history and culture. In Jewish Stars in Texas Hollace Ava Weiner examines eleven rabbis whose wisdom and leadership... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Jews of Prime Time (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Lif) by David Zurawik Publisher Comments An examination of Jewish television characters from the last fifty years, along with a backstage look at the Jewish insiders who created the strange history of Jewish identity in prime time... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Shul with a Pool (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, & Life) by David Kaufman Publisher Comments The evolution of an American institution that reflects the unique tension between Judaism and Jewishness.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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