Reviews

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Review of Artifacts of Orthodox Jewish Childhoods, edited by Dainy Bernstein

From CDs to detective stories, zines to toys, the objects remembered and analyzed in this volume presents the range of material that filled the childhoods of Ashkenazi Orthodox Jews growing up in the last decades of the twentieth century.

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Review of Beyond the Synagogue by Rachel B. Gross

Through her work, Gross seeks to validate practices that meaningfully contribute to Jewish identity formation and connect Jewish Americans to their history as a people and to the contemporary community of Jewish people.

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The Lower East Side as an American Site of Memory

In her work on images of the Lower East Side, Blair spotlights the paradoxes of the neighborhood’s dynamic status as site of memory and of artistic experimentation and highlights stories and voices often left out of American collective memory.

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