American Jewish History

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• Splendor, Decline, and Rediscovery of Yiddish in Latin America.
• The Learning of the Jews and the Language of the Germans: Edward Isaacson in Utah and the Hebrew Book of Mormon.
• Modernity and the Jews: Western Social Thought.
• Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture.
• Policing the Jewish Quarter: Progressive Law Enforcement and Jewish Vigilantism in the Age of Mass Migration, 1900-1920.
• Wasserman Prize.
• A Hundred Acres of America: The Geography of Jewish American Literary History.
• Global Jewish Foodways: A History.
• Making Judaism Safe for America: World War I and the Origins of Religious Pluralism.
• The Integration of Jewish Refugees from Shanghai into Post-World War II San Francisco.

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• State of the Field: On Kosher Hamburgers, Yiddish Tangos, and Non-Affiliated Jews: Writing Jewish Latin America into the Americas.
• A home between death and life: mausoleums as liminal spaces of memory for classical reform Jews of Temple Emanu-El, 1890-1945.
• Breaking Down the Barriers: The Encounter between Judaism and Buddhism in the Late Nineteenth Century.
• 'The Saddest Man I Ever Knew': Ralph de Toledano and the Jewish Roots of American Conservatism.
• Jewish Genetic Potency: The Meaning of Jewish Ancestry in the 21st-Century United States.
• The B'nai B'rith encounters Nazi Germany, 1933.
• The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter: Ernestine Rose, International Feminist Pioneer.
• 'How it will end, the blessed God knows': a reading of Jewish correspondence during the revolutionary war era.
• Seventeen months in the president's chair: Morris Abram, black-Jewish relations and the anatomy of a failed presidency.
• The Agudah and 'Der Baal Tshuva': the Agudath Israel World Organization, politicized orthodoxy and the interwar American Jewish Community.