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Dean, Jodi, ed. Cultural Studies and Political Theory (2000).

Willett, Cynthia. The Soul of Justice (2001).

Kuriyama, Constance Brown. Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life (2002).

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Rischin, Rebecca. For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet (2003).

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Knoppers, Laura Lunger. Historicizing Milton: Spectacle, Power, and Poetry in Restoration England (1993).

Tate, Linda. A Southern Weave of Women: Fiction of the Contemporary South (1993).

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Lehmann, Matthias. Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture (2005).

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Raleigh, Donald J. Russia's Sputnik Generation: Russia's Baby Boomers Talk about Their Lives (2005).

Trunk, Isaiah. Lodz Ghetto: A History (2006).

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Stilwell, Robynn, and Phil Powrie. Cultural Politics and Propaganda: Composing for the Screen in Germany and the USSR (2007).

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Tigay, Jeffrey. Deuteronomy: The JPS Torah Commentary (1994).

Kaplan, Arie. From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and the Comic Books (2008).

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Yamane, David. Student Movements for Multiculturalism: Challenging the Curricular Color Line in Higher Education (2001).

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Boris, Harold. Passions of the Mind: New Paradoxes and Paradigms in Psychoanalysis (1992).

Lieblich, Amia. Seasons of Captivity: The Inner World of POWs (1993).

Ringer, J. Ronald, ed. Queer Words, Queer Images (1993).

Wiener, Valerie. Power Communications: Positioning Yourself for High Visibility (1993).

Burgin, Diana. Sophia Parnok: A Biography of Russia’s Sappho. (1993).

Kaplan, Lawrence, and David Shatz, eds. Abraham Isaac Kook and Jewish Spirituality (1993).

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Oriard, Michael. Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle (1992).

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Winkler, Henry. Paths Not Taken: British Labour and International Policy in the 1920s (1994).

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Lewis, Ronald. Welsh Americans: A Story of Assimilation in the Coalfields (2008).

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Edwards, Laura. The People and Their Peace (2009).

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Allen, Michael J. Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Politics of Loss at the End of the Vietnam War (2009).

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Nathans, Benjamin, and Gabriella Safran, eds. Culture Front: Representing Jews in Eastern Europe (2007).

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Marks, Richard. The Image of Bar Kokhba in Traditional Jewish Literature (1993).

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Swartz, Michael. Scholastic Magic: Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism (1996).

Klein, Alan. Baseball on the Border: A Tale of Two Laredos (1997).

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Dollinger, Marc. Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America (2000).

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Heinze, Andrew. Jews and the American Soul (2004).

Rubin, Edward. Onward Past Camelot: Rethinking Politics and Law for the Administrative State (2005).

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Goldish, Matt. Jewish Questions: Responsa on Sephardic Life, 1492-1750 (2008).

Villa, Dana. Public Freedom (2008).

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Sorenson, John. Imagining Ethiopia: Struggles for History and Identity in the Horn of Africa (1992).

Karttunen, Frances. Between Worlds: Interpreters, Guides, and Survivors (1993).

Hudnut-Beumler, James. Looking for God in the Suburbs: The Religion of the American Dream and Its Critics, 1945-1965 (1993).

Meikl, Jeffrey. American Plastic: A Cultural History (1995).

Apple, Rima. Vitamania (1995).

Heyd, Milly. Mutual Reflections: Jews and Blacks in American Art (1999).

Wertheimer, Jack, ed. Jews in the Center: Conservative Synagogues and Their Members (2000).

Auerbach, Jerold S. Are We One? Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel (2001).

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Berquist, Jon L. Controlling Corporeality: The Body and the Household in Ancient Israel (2002).

Palgi, Yoav. Into the Inferno: Memoir of a Jewish Paratrooper behind Nazi Lines (2003).

Kugelmass, Jack, ed. Key Texts in American Jewish Culture (2003).

Bender, Daniel. Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor (2004).

Pomerance, Murray. An Eye for Hitchcock (2004).

Apel, Dora. Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob (2004).

Pomerance, Murray. Johnny Depp Starts Here (2005).

Pomerance, Murray, ed. American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations (2005).

Dixon, Wheeler Winston, ed. American Cinema of the 1940s: Themes and Variations (2005).

Brook, Vincent, ed. "You Should See Yourself": Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture (2006).

Friedman, Lester, ed. American Cinema of the 1970s: Themes and Variations (2007).

Pomerance, Murray, ed. City That Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic Imagination (2007).

Prince, Stephen, ed. American Cinema of the 1980s: Themes and Variations (2007).

Hark, Ina Rae, ed. American Cinema of the 1930s: Themes and Variations (2007).

Behar, Ruth. An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba (2007).

Krutnik, Frank, Steve Neale, Brian Neve, and Peter Stanfield. eds. “Un-American” Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era (2007).

Grant, Barry Keith, ed. American Cinema of the 1960s: Themes and Variations (2007).

Dixon, Wheeler Winston, and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. A Short History of Film (2007).

Winograd, Morley, and Michael D. Hais. Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics (2008).

Pomerance, Murray. The Horse Who Drank the Sky: Film Experience Beyond Narrative and Theory (2008).

Knox, Paul L. Metroburbia, USA (2008).

Holmlund, Chris, ed. American Cinema of the 1990s: Themes and Variations (2008).

Wells, Paul. The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons, and Culture (2008).

Gaudreault, Andre, ed. American Cinema, 1893-1909: Themes and Variations (2009).

Keil, Charlie, and Ben Singer, eds. American Cinema of the 1910s: Themes and Variations (2009).

Fischer, Lucy, ed. American Cinema of the 1920s: Themes and Variations (2009).

Tryon, Chuck. Reinventing Cinema: Movies in the Age of Digital Convergence (2009).

Gossman, Lionel, and Mihai Spariosu. Building a Profession: Comparative Literature in America (1993).

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Hague, Euan, Edward H. Sebesta, and Heidi Beirich, eds. Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction (2008).

Trulson, Chad R., and James W. Marquart. First Available Cell: Desegregation of the Texas Prison System (2009).

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Tsoffar, Ruth. The Stains of Culture: An Ethno-Reading of Female Karaite Culture (2005).

Brill, Lesley. Crowds, Power, and Transformation in Cinema (2006).

Frank, Daniel, and Matt Goldish, eds. Rabbinic Culture and Its Critics: Jewish Authority, Dissent, and Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Times (2007).

Lehman, Peter. Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body, 2nd ed. (2007).

Roskies, David G. Yiddishlands: A Memoir (2008).

Rochelson, Meri-Jane. A Jew in the Public Arena: A Life of Israel Zangwill (2008).

Haus, Jeffrey. Challenges of Equality: Judaism, State, and Education in Nineteenth-Century France (2009).

Erb, Cynthia. Tracking King Kong: A Hollywood Icon in World Culture, revised edition (2009).