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American Jewish Civilization Series
Jewish Studies Categories: Jewish Studies, Folklore, History, Holocaust Studies, Israel and the Middle East, Literature and Poetry, Thought, Women and Judaism
Jewish Studies Series: America Holy Land Series, American Jewish Civilization Series, Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology, A Guide to Jewish Practice Series
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The Whole Wide World, Without Limits
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Going Greek
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Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush
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Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939
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Communings of the Spirit
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The Whole Wide World, Without Limits An analysis of gender politics in the American Jewish community during the interwar period that reveals the role of gender and class in organizational politics and the importance of Jewish women in American political and activist history. |
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Going Greek A history of Jewish fraternities and sororities in the early-twentieth-century United States. |
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Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush A history of the founding of California’s Jewish community during the Gold Rush. |
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Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939 Jewish Immigrant Associations, by Daniel Soyer, holds an in-depth discussion on the importance of these hometown societies that provided members with valuable material benefits and served as arenas for formal and informal social interaction. |
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Communings of the Spirit Undeterred by attacks on his radical beliefs, he never wavered in the pursuit of a more dynamic Judaism. |
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Envisioning Israel Envisioning Israel examines the deeply entwined yet often problematic historical relationship between American Jewry and the Jewish community in Israel and its predecessor, the yishuv, the Jewish settlement in Palestine from the 1880s until 1948 |
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Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism also tells an important part of the story of Judaism's response to the challenge of social acceptance in a new, modern society. |
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The Forerunners Robert Swierenga describes the life of Jews in Holland during the Napoleonic era and examines the factors that caused them to emigrate, first to the major eastern seaboard cities of the United States, then to the frontier cities of the Midwest, and finall |
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Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century Based on a mass of unpublished letters, sermons, and a twenty-seven volume journal, this richly textured biography reappraises Kaplan's significance and offers an original and intimate look at the man, his mind, and his work. |
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Hebrew in America Hebrew in America is the first book to fully explore the Jewish attachment to Hebrew in 20th century North America. |
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