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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• From the archives: Lucy S. Dawidowicz and the Restitution of Jewish Cultural Property.
• Breaking the Taboo: Investigating the Complex History of Jews and the American Economy.
• Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball.
• 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.
• Beyond synagogues and cemeteries: the built environment as an aspect of vernacular Jewish material culture in Charleston, South Carolina.
• The American Soviet Jewry Movement's 'Uneventful' 1968: Cold War Liberalism, Human Interest, and the Politics of the Long Haul.
• Editor's introduction.
• Equating Zionism with racism: the 1965 precedent.