Suddenly Jewish: Jews Raised as Gentiles Discover Their Jewish Roots

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   L S54  b r a n d e i s s e r i e s i n a m e r i c a n j e w i s h h i s t o r y , c u l t u r e , a n d l i f e Jonathan D. Sarna, Editor Sylvia Barack Fishman, Associate Editor Leon A. Jick, 1992 The Americanization of the Synagogue, 1820–1870 Sylvia Barack Fishman, editor, 1992 Follow My Footprints: Changing Images of Women in American Jewish Fiction Gerald Tulchinsky, 1993 Taking Root: The Origins of the Canadian Jewish Community Shalom Goldman, editor, 1993 Hebrew and the Bible in America: The First Two Centuries Marshall Sklare, 1993 Observing America’s Jews Reena Sigman Friedman, 1994 These Are Our Children: Jewish Orphanages in the United States, 1880–1925 Alan Silverstein, 1994 Alternatives to Assimilation: The Response of Reform Judaism to American Culture, 1840–1930 Jack Wertheimer, editor, 1995 The American Synagogue: A Sanctuary Transformed Sylvia Barack Fishman, 1995 A Breathe of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community Diane Matza, editor, 1996 Sephardic-American Voices: Two Hundred Years of a Literary Legacy Joyce Antler, editor, 1997 Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture Jack Wertheimer, 1997 A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America Beth S. Wenger and Jeffrey Shandler, editors, 1998 Encounters with the “Holy Land”: Place, Past and Future in American Jewish Culture David Kaufman, 1998 Shul with a Pool: The “Synagogue-Center” in American Jewish History Roberta Rosenberg Farber and Chaim I. Waxman, 1999 Jews in America: A Contemporary Reader Murray Friedman and Albert D. Chernin, 1999 A Second Exodus: The American Movement to Free Soviet Jews Stephen J. Whitfield, 1999 In Search of American Jewish Culture Naomi W. Cohen, 1999 Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership Barbara Kessel, 2000 Suddenly Jewish: Jews Raised as Gentiles Discover Their Jewish Roots Jonathan N. Barron and Eric Murphy Selinger, editors, 2000 Jewish American Poetry: Poems, Commentary, and Reflections Steven T. Rosenthal, 2001 Irreconcilable Differences?: The Waning of the American Jewish Love Affair with Israel Pamela S. Nadell and Jonathan D. Sarna, editors, 2001 Women and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives To my parents, Marion and Hy Baras, and Sima and Morris Kessel For teaching me where I came from; To Allen For sharing the voyage; To Aliza and Jonathan For continuing the journey; With thanks to the Almighty, Without Whom, nothing ...