Joanne Jacobson
By Joanne Jacobson
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Culture Nancy Miller Hunts for Roots on Three Continents
What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past By Nancy K. Miller University of Nebraska Press, 248 pages, $24.95 Although Nancy Miller calls this book a memoir, it is in many ways more a family detective story, tracking a set of clues back into the past and across the globe. Or, perhaps better, it exemplifies…
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Culture Jew vs. Jew in Levittown
Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America’s Legendary Suburb By David Kushner Walker & Company, 256 pages, $25. Virtually since its founding on New York’s Long Island in 1948, “Levittown” has been a byword for conformity: houses, people, aspirations; a kind of origin narrative of suburban homogeneity. But David…
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