American Jewish History

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• 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.
• Whose Jewishness? Inbal Dance Theater and Cold War American Spectatorship.
• Jewish Genetic Potency: The Meaning of Jewish Ancestry in the 21st-Century United States.

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• 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.
• Lee Max Friedman Award-Lecture.
• Pillar of Fire: A Biography of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise.
• Necrology: William Toll.
• On Middle Ground: A History of the Jews of Baltimore.
• The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter: Ernestine Rose, International Feminist Pioneer.
• 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.
• The American friends of the Alliance Israelite Universelle: a study in American-Jewish Intraethnic Relations, 1947-2004.