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Ashton, Dianne, “Quick to the Party: The Americanization of Hanukkah and Southern Jewry,” Southern Jewish History, 12 (2009), 1–38.

Fermaglich, Kirsten, “Mel Brooks’s The Producers: Tracing American Jewish Culture through Comedy, 1967–2007,” American Studies, 48 (Fall 2007), 59–88.

Kwas, Mary L., “Two Generations of the Abraham and Fanny Block Family: Internal Migration, Economics, Family, and the Jewish Frontier,” Southern Jewish History, 12 (2009), 39–114.

Oder, Arthur, “What’s Fair Is Fair? A Comparative Look at Judicial Discretion in Fairness Review of Holocaust Era Class Action Settlement in the United States and Canada,” Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law, 17 (Summer 2009), 545–88.

Whitfield, Stephen J., “Commerce and Community: A Business History of Jacksonville Jewry,” Southern Jewish History, 12 (2009), 115–226.

Zakai, Avihu, and David Weinstein, “Leo Strauss: Galuta shel parshanut” (Leo Strauss: The exile of interpretation), New Trends in the Study of German Jewry (Jerusalem), 13 (2009), 3–31. In Hebrew.

 

Wandelt, Sonja Julia, “The Translation from Memory to Postmemory: The Mother-Daughter Dialogue in Post-Holocaust Literature” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3347554.

 

Litvak, Joseph, The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. x,294 pp. Cloth, $79.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4467-4. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4484-1.)

 

Kelman, Ari Y., ed., Is Diss a System? A Milt Gross Comic Reader. (New York: New York University Press, 2010. x, 293 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8147-4823-7.)

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