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Alroey, Gur, “Aliya to America? A Comparative Look at Jewish Mass Migration, 1881–1914,” Modern Judaism, 28 (May 2008), 109–33.

Kaskowitz, Sheryl, “All in the Family: Brandeis University and Leonard Bernstein’s ‘Jewish Boston,’” Journal of the Society for American Music, 3 (Feb. 2009), 85–100.

Oja, Carol J., and Kay Kaufman Shelemay, “Leonard Bernstein’s Jewish Boston: Cross-Disciplinary Research in the Classroom,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 3 (Feb. 2009), 3–33.

Patterson, Alan Owen, “The Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Experience with Baseball in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century,” Modern Judaism, 28 (Feb. 2008), 79–104.

Pollard, Annie, “Working for the Sabbath: Sabbath in the Jewish Immigrant Neighborhoods of New York,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 6 (Spring 2009), 33–56.

Price, Jay M., “Jewish Community in Wichita, 1920–1970: Same Wagon, New Horses,” Great Plains Quarterly, 28 (Fall 2008), 293–320.

Sarna, Jonathan D., “Leonard Bernstein and the Boston Jewish Community of His Youth: The Influence of Solomon Braslavsky, Herman Rubenovitz, and Congregation Mishkan Tefila,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 3 (Feb. 2009), 35–46.

Singer, David, “Emanuel Rackman: Gadfly of Modern Orthodoxy,” Modern Judaism, 28 (May 2008), 134–48.

 

Mandel, Dena Toni Cooper, “A World of Difference: Emma Wolf, a Jewish-American Writer on the American Frontier” (University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 2008). Order No. DA3322397.

Németh-Jesurún, Nancy, “The Third Life: Sixteen Holocaust Survivors in El Paso” (University of Texas, El Paso, 2008). Order No. DA3311416.

 

Alexander, Edward, Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe: And Other Stories of Literary Friendship. (New Brunswick: Transaction, 2009. xiv, 124 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-4128-1014-2.)

Kelman, Ari Y., Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio in the United States. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xviii, 279 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-520-25573-9.)

Raider, Mark A., ed., Nahum Goldmann: Statesman without a State. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. x, 343 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-1-4384-2499-6.)

Weingarten, Aviva, Jewish Organizations’ Response to Communism and to Senator McCarthy. (Portland, Or.: Vallentine Mitchell, 2008. xii, 164 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-85303-743-9. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-85303-744-6.)

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