Jenna Weissman Joselit

Author of The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture 1880-1950

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About the Author

Jenna Weissman Joselit is the Charles E. Smith Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of History at George Washington University. She is the author of several books on American daily life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including The Wonders of America, winner of the National Jewish show more Book Award in History, and Parade of Faiths: Immigration and American Religion. show less

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Works by Jenna Weissman Joselit

A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and the Promise of America (2001) 58 copies

Our Gang : Jewish Crime and the New York Jewish Community, 1900-1940 (1983) 29 copies

New York's Jewish Jews: The Orthodox Community in the Interwar Years (1990) 20 copies

Immigration and American Religion (Religion in American Life) (2001) 16 copies

Getting comfortable in New York : the American Jewish home, 1880-1950 (1991) 11 copies

Set in Stone: America's Embrace of the Ten Commandments (2017) 11 copies

Parade of faiths : immigration and American religion (2007) 6 copies

Lending dignity : the first one hundred years of the Hebrew Free Loan Society of New York (1900) 5 copies

Parade of faiths : immigration and American religion 5 copies

Aspiring Women: A History of the Jewish Foundation for Education of Women 1 copy

A Worthy use of summer : Jewish summer camping in America 1 copy

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