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Jewish American Heritage Month Reads for Adults

Celebrate Jewish American Heritage with these books hand picked by our staff.

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  • Book, 2013Los Angeles : Autry National Center of the American West, in association with University of California Press, [2013] — 979.49 JEWS
  • Jewish Radical Feminism

    Voices From the Women's Liberation Movement

    Antler, Joyce,
    Book, 2018New York : New York University Press, [2018] — 305.42 ANTLER
  • Book, 2022New York : Atria Books, 2022. — FIC BERLINER, FELICIA
  • Eat Something

    a Wise Sons Cookbook : for Jews Who Like Food and Food Lovers Who Like Jews

    Bloom, Evan (Delicatessen owner),
    Book, 2020San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2020] — 641.567 BLOOM
  • Superman Is Jewish?

    How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way

    Brod, Harry, 1951-
    Book, 2012New York : Free Press, 2012. — 741.5 BROD
  • The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia

    From Abraham to Zabar's and Everything in Between

    Butnick, Stephanie,
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Artisan, a division of Workman Publishing Co., Inc., [2019] — 305.8924 BUTNICK
  • An Improbable Friendship

    the Remarkable Lives of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Palestinian Raymonda Tawil and Their Forty-year Peace Mission

    David, Anthony, 1962-
    Book, 2015New York : Arcade Publishing, [2015] — 921 DAYAN, RUTH
  • Harvey Milk

    His Lives and Death

    Faderman, Lillian
    Book, 2018New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2018] — 921 MILK, HARVEY
  • People Love Dead Jews

    Reports From a Haunted Present

    Horn, Dara, 1977-
    Book, 2021New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2021] — 305.8924 HORN
  • Book, 2023Seattle : Amazon Crossing, 2023. — FIC JABIR, HAJJI
  • Let There Be Laughter

    a Treasury of Great Jewish Humor & What It All Means

    Krasny, Michael, 1944-
    Book, 2016New York : William Morrow, An Imprint HarperCollins Publishers, [2016] — 808.7 KRASNY