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Divining America: Religion in American History
20th Century
Essay: "American Jewish Experience in the Twentieth Century: Antisemitism and Assimilation"




Works cited in "The American Jewish Experience in the Twentieth Century: Antisemitism and Assimilation"

Dinnerstein, Leonard. Antisemitism in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Feingold, Henry L. Bearing Witness: How America and Its Jews Responded to the Holocaust. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995.

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Hertzberg, Arthur. The Jews in America: Four Centuries of an Uneasy Encounter. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990.

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