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Sing This at My Funeral

A Memoir of Fathers and Sons

David Slucki

A global journey of four generations of fathers and sons as they cope with grief and loss.

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Published: July 2019
ISBN: 9780814347218
$82.99
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Published: July 2019
ISBN: 9780814344866
$27.99
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Published: July 2019
ISBN: 9780814344873

Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World

Edited by Shirli Gilbert and Avril Alba

Traces the history of connections between Holocaust memory and the discourse of anti-racism.

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Published: July 2019
ISBN: 9780814345962
$84.99
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Published: July 2019
ISBN: 9780814342695
$39.99
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Published: July 2019
ISBN: 9780814342701

The Legend of Safed

Life and Fantasy in the City of Kabbalah

Eli Yassif
Translated by Haim Watzman

Jewish life through the legends created and narrated in Safed in the sixteenth century.

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Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814341100
$84.99
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Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814346846
$32.99
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Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814341117

The JDC at 100

A Century of Humanitarianism

Edited by Avinoam Patt, Atina Grossmann, Linda G. Levi, and Maud S. Mandel

The history of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee from its origins in 1914 through its first century.

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Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814342343
$54.99
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Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814342350

The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson

Edited with an Introduction by Lori Harrison-Kahan

Collection of articles and fiction by pioneering journalist and turn-of-the-twentieth-century feminist, Miriam Michelson.

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Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814346082
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Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814343579
$36.99
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Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814343586

Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Edited by Rachel S. Harris

Pedagogical resource to help faculty prepare courses on the Arab-Israeli conflict in any discipline.

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Published: April 2019
ISBN: 9780814346761
$84.99
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Published: April 2019
ISBN: 9780814346778
$39.99
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Published: April 2019
ISBN: 9780814346785
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Kugel and Frijoles

Latino Jews in the United States

Laura Limonic

Exploration of ethnic identity and community building through stories of contemporary Latino Jews.

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Published: April 2019
ISBN: 9780814345757
$82.99
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Published: April 2019
ISBN: 9780814345764
$34.99
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Published: April 2019
ISBN: 9780814345771
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Welcome to Replica Dodge

A Memoir by Natalie Ruth Joynton

A story about place, interfaith, and what it means to come home.

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Published: March 2019
ISBN: 9780814345573
$20.99
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Published: March 2019
ISBN: 9780814345580

Overlooking the Border

Narratives of Divided Jerusalem

Dana Hercbergs

An ethnographic tapestry of personal and institutional narratives about Jerusalem’s social history.

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Published: October 2018
ISBN: 9780814341087
$79.99
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Published: October 2018
ISBN: 9780814344927
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Published: October 2018
ISBN: 9780814341094

Doctor Levitin

A Novel by David Shrayer-Petrov
Translated by Arna B. Bronstein, Aleksandra I. Fleszar, and Maxim D. Shrayer

The story of a doctor’s family torn apart by Soviet politics, persecution, and the Jewish struggle for freedom during the Cold War.

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Published: September 2018
ISBN: 9780814345726
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Published: September 2018
ISBN: 9780814345733
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Published: September 2018
ISBN: 9780814345740

Concrete Boxes

Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery

Pnina Motzafi-Haller
With a Foreword by Virginia R. Dominguez

Evocative feminist ethnography focused on the rarely documented lives of Mizrahi women in a marginalized Israeli community.

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Published: August 2018
ISBN: 9780814344422
$64.99
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Published: August 2018
ISBN: 9780814340592
$36.99
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Published: August 2018
ISBN: 9780814340608

Eli's Story

A Twentieth-Century Jewish Life

Meri-Jane Rochelson

Biography of a Jewish doctor who survived and triumphed over the horrors of the Holocaust.

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Published: August 2018
ISBN: 9780814344941
$74.99
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Published: August 2018
ISBN: 9780814340219
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Published: August 2018
ISBN: 9780814340226
Published: August 2018
ISBN: 0814340210

Whitechapel Noise

Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884–1914

Vivi Lachs

New perspectives on Anglo-Jewish history via the poetry and song of Yiddish-speaking immigrants in London from 1884 to 1914.

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Published: May 2018
ISBN: 9780814344880
$85.99
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Published: May 2018
ISBN: 9780814343555
$34.99
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Published: May 2018
ISBN: 9780814343562

The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn

Volume 1: "A Touch of Wildness"

Ralph Melnick

Biography of Ludwig Lewisohn’s life until 1934, an imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century.

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344675
$24.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344668

United States Jewry, 1776-1985

Volume 3, The Germanic Period, Part 2

Jacob Rader Marcus

The third volume covers the period from 1860 to 1920, beginning with the Jews, slavery, and the Civil War, and concluding with the rise of Reform Judaism.

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344736
$22.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344729

United States Jewry, 1776-1985

Volume 1

Jacob Rader Marcus

Comprehensive history of Jewish immigration, segregation, and integration; of Jewry’s cultural exclusiveness and assimilation; of its internal division and indivisible unity; and of its role in the making of America.

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344699
$22.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344682

United States Jewry, 1776-1985

Volume 2, The Germanic Period

Jacob Rader Marcus

The second volume of this seminal work on American Jewry covers the period from 1841 to 1860.

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344712
$22.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344705

Ambiguous Relations

The American Jewish Community and Germany Since 1945

Shlomo Shafir

Addresses the complex relationships between American Jews and Germany over the fifty years following the end of World War II.

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814345085
$22.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814345078

Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939

Jewish Landsmanshaftn in American Culture

Daniel Soyer

Study of a vital immigrant institution and the formation of American ethnic identity.

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344507
$22.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344514

Marketing Identities

The Invention of Jewish Ethnicity in Ost und West

David A. Brenner

A study of the first Jewish magazine to explore ethnic identity in early twentieth-century Germany.

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814345191
$22.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814345184

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