Contemporary American Jewry

Maya Balakirsky Katz
- The Sacred Geography of Contemporary Hasidism
Sarah Bunin Benor
- Beyond Bagels and Burekas: American Jewish Language and Identity
- Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism
- Cohen, Levi, Yisrael: Jewish Names Around the World
- Jewish Languages Today: Endangered, Surviving, and Thriving
Debra Caplan
- The World of Yiddish Theater
- Jewish Theater in America Today
Judah M. Cohen
- Personalized Synagogue Musical History
- Debbie Friedman as Liturgist, Composer, and Musician
- The Cantor in American Jewish Life
- What We Can Learn from Holocaust-themed Musicals
- The Sound of Jewish Life” title to “Emerging American Jewish Sounds: The (Intentionally) Forgotten 19th Century
David G. Dalin
- Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court: From Brandeis to Kagan
- The Extraordinary “RBG”: The Life and Legal Career of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first Jewish Woman on the U.S. Supreme Court
- The Presidents of the United States: From FDR to Donald Trump
- Baseball’s Greatest Jewish Superstars: Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax
Deborah Dash Moore
- Urban Origins of American Judaism
- Jewish New York
Lynn R. Davidman
- The Whitening of the Jewish Immigrants
- Stories of Leaving Hasidic Life
- Tensions Between Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Jewish Life
Nathaniel Deutsch
- The rise of Haredi Judaism and the Future of the Jewish People
- The Status of Women in Contemporary Haredi Communities
- The Role of Minhag (custom) in the Creation of Modern Jewish Movements
Matt Goldish
- Screening of the Melton Center film, “The Other Men in Black: The Hasidic Movement Yesterday and Today,” with discussion
Samuel Heilman
- American Orthodoxy: Sliding to the Right?
- Jews and the Presidential Elections
- Lubavitchers, the Mission and the Rebbe
- How Did Fundamentalism Infiltrate Modern Orthodoxy?
- The Future of American Judaism
- Religious Fundamentalism
- Hastening the Messiah: Jewish Messianism Today
- Hasidism in America
- When A Jew Dies: The Ethnography of Jewish Death
- The Writing on the Wall: Jewish Brooklyn and Queens as seen in Posters
Debra Renee Kaufman
- Telling Our Stories and Creating Ourselves: Jewish Identity in the Making
- Beyond Belief, Behavior, and Belonging: Can You Still Be Jewish?
- What Place the Holocaust Has in Contemporary Identity Narratives among 20- to 30-Year-Old Non-Descendents in the US and Israel
- ‘Doing Justice’ and Post-Holocaust Jewish Identity among Millenials
- Making the Secular Sacred: Post-Holocaust Narratives and Jewish Identity
- Better the Devil You Know: Feminist Women, Orthodoxy, and Choice
- Ba’alot Teshuvah: Revivalists or Traditionalists?
- Paradoxical Practices and Newly Orthodox Jewish Women
- Re-imaging/Imagining Pew’s 2016 Portrait of Orthodoxy
- The Jewish Future Isn’t What It Used to Be: Jewish but Not by Religion
Shaul Kelner
- American Jews: A Changing Community
Josh Lambert
- “Strange Times to Be a Jew”: American Jewish Literature in the 21st Century
- “Are Jews Pornographers?”: Obscenity and Jews in America, from the Comstock Laws to Sarah Silverman
- Jewish Literature as Conspiracy
- What can we learn from American Jewish Fiction?
Laura Leibman
- The History of Multiracial Jews in the Americas
James Loeffler
- A Long Tradition?: How Jewish Lawyers Remade International Law and Reinvented Jewishness
Howard Lupovitch
- Does Judaism have a Diversity Requirement?
- Israelis and American Jews: Do We still Speak the Same Language?
Ted Merwin
- Mixed Blessings: Jewish-Christian Intermarriage in American Comedy
- Between the Sheets: Sex in Jewish Culture
David N. Myers
- American Shtetl: Kiryas Joel, New York
Pamela S. Nadell
- The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Out of Tragedy Comes Social Justice
- Tevye’s Daughters in America
- Blacks and Jews; Struggles in the American Promised Land
- Telling the American Jewish Story on Independence Mall: The National Museum of American Jewish History
- “Giving Our All the Poor Soldiers”: Jewish Women and the Civil War
- Women Who Would Be Rabbis: The Battle for Women’s Ordination
- Yentl: From Yeshiva Boy to Syndrom
- ‘The Synagog shall Hear the Call of the Sister’: The History of Synagogue Sisterhoods
Vanessa Ochs
- New Jewish Ritual
- Women of the Wall
- The Jewish Wedding
Riv-Ellen Prell
- Is the First Amendment Good for American Jews: Religious Freedom on the College Campus and in the Culture
- What is New About American Jewish Culture in the 21st Century?
- Baby Boomers and their Jewish Summer Camps: The Making of a Cultural Revolution
Jonathan Sarna
- Looking Ahead: American Judaism in the 21st Century
Shuly Rubin Schwartz
- Baskin-Robbins Has 31 Flavors – How About American Judaism?
- From Jewess Jeans to Juicy JAPs: Clothing and Jewish Stereotypes
- Goodbye, Columbus, Hello Christopher: The Evolution of American Jewry
Leonard Saxe
- Taglit-Birthright Israel/Engaging Jewish Young Adults with Israel and their Jewish Identity
- The Size and Character of the American Jewish Population/Is the U.S. Jewish Community Assimilating Away?
- The Jewish Future in America: Musings of Social Scientist
Ilan Troen
- Comparing America and Israel; Or, Can/should Israel be Americanized?