Jew­ish Amer­i­can Her­itage Month 2023

May is Jew­ish Amer­i­can Her­itage Month! Jewish Book Council provides a read­ing list that high­lights and speaks to the Amer­i­can Jew­ish expe­ri­ence through­out history.

Updated April 4, 2023
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Mahjong : a Chinese game and the making of modern American culture
Heinz, Annelise
Paper Book
How has a game brought together Americans and defined separate ethnic communities? This book tells the first history of mahjong and its meaning in American culture.Click-click-click. The sound of mahjong tiles connects American expatriates in Shanghai, Jazz Age white Americans, urban Chinese...
One more year : stories
Krasikov, Sana
Paper Book
Every so often a new writer appears who is wiser than her years would suggest, whose flesh-and-blood characters embody more experience than a young writer could possible know. Sana Krasikov is one of those writers. Her first published story appeared in the New Yorker, her second in The Atlantic...
Lincoln and the Jews : a history
Sarna, Jonathan D.
Paper Book
One hundred and fifty years after Abraham Lincoln's death, the full story of his extraordinary relationship with Jews is told here for the first time. Lincoln and the Jews: A History provides readers both with a captivating narrative of his interactions with Jews, and with the opportunity...

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