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According to Wikipedia, Jonathan D. Sarna is the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History in the department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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American Judaism: A History (2003) (181)
From Immigrants to Ethnics: Toward a New Theory of "Ethn icization" (1978) (49)
The cult of synthesis in American Jewish culture (1998) (49)
Jacksonian Jew: The Two Worlds of Mordecai Noah (1981) (31)
AMERICAN JEWISH EDUCATION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (1998) (31)
A Place of Our Own: The Rise of Reform Jewish Camping (2006) (29)
The American Jewish experience (1986) (28)
The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State. (1994) (25)
Forum: American Civil Religion Revisited (1994) (23)
Observing America's Jews (1993) (23)
American Judaism (2019) (18)
Women and American Judaism Historical Perspectives (2001) (18)
Minding the Store (16)
The jews of Boston (2005) (13)
Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience (1997) (13)
Ethnic Diversity and Civic Identity: Patterns of Conflict and Cohesion in Cincinnati since 1820. (1994) (12)
The Debate Over Mixed Seating in the American Synagogue (1987) (12)
Jews and the Civil War: A Reader (2010) (12)
A Kosher Christmas: 'Tis the Season to be Jewish (2012) (12)
The Crucial Decade in Jewish Camping (2006) (12)
The Freethinker, the Jews, and the Missionaries: George Houston and the Mystery of Israel Vindicated (1976) (12)
A Great Awakening: The Transformation That Shaped Twentieth Century American Judaism and its Implications for Today (1995) (11)
A Projection of America as it Ought to Be: Zion in the Mind's Eye of American Jews (1996) (10)
When General Grant Expelled the Jews (2012) (8)
The Future of American Orthodoxy (2001) (7)
THE IMPACT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ON AMERICAN JEWS (1981) (7)
Port Jews in the Atlantic: further thoughts (2006) (7)
Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York (2001) (7)
America and Zion : essays and papers in memory of Moshe Davis (2002) (6)
American Jewish Political Conservatism In Historical Perspective (1999) (6)
Is Judaism Compatible with American Civil Religion? The Problem of Christmas and the 'National Faith' (1990) (6)
Minority faiths and the American Protestant mainstream (1999) (6)
An Uneasy Relationship: American Jewish Leadership and Israel, 1948-1957, and: The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics: Israel versus the American Jewish Establishment, and: From Exodus to Freedom: A History of the Soviet Jewry Movement (review) (2006) (6)
Jewish Renaissance and Revival in America (2011) (5)
Toward a Comprehensive Policy Planning for Russian-Speaking Jews in North America (2013) (5)
The Value of Canadian Jewish History to the American Jewish Historian and Vice-Versa (1981) (5)
The Jews of Boston : essays on the occasion of the centenary (1895-1995) of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston (1996) (5)
Jewish Immigrants to North America: The Canadian Experience (1870-1900) (1976) (4)
The Question of Music in American Judaism: Reflections at 350 Years (2003) (4)
The Evolution of the American Synagogue (1995) (4)
Afterword: The Study of American Judaism: A Look Ahead (2005) (4)
American Synagogue History: A Bibliography and State-Of-The-Field Survey (1988) (3)
The Economic Downturn and the Future of Jewish Communities (2009) (3)
The Cyclical History of Adult Jewish Learning in the United States: Peers' Law and its Implications (2005) (3)
Jewish polity and American civil society : communal agencies and religious movements in the American public sphere (2002) (3)
The marshall sklare memorial lecture (2003) (3)
The American Jewish Community in Crisis and Transformation: The Perspective of History (2009) (3)
Reform Jewish Leaders, Intermarriage and Conversion (1990) (3)
Two Jewish Lawyers Named Louis (2008) (2)
Haifa--Sea and Mountain, Arab Past and Jewish Present, As Reflected By Four Writers (2006) (2)
THE ESSENCE OF AMERICAN JUDAISM (2016) (2)
Seating and the American Synagogue (1991) (2)
The Twentieth Century Through American Jewish Eyes: A History of the American Jewish Year Book, 1899-1999 (2000) (2)
Chosen Capital: The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism (2012) (2)
The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Secular Judaism (2007) (2)
Abba Hillel Silver and American Zionism (2012) (2)
Jewish Identity in the Changing World of American Religion (1991) (2)
Moving Beyond Haym Solomon: The Teaching of American Jewish History to 20th Century Jews (1995) (1)
Jews in America: From New Amsterdam to the Yiddish Stage (2012) (1)
Intermarriage in America: The Jewish Experience in Historical Context (2007) (1)
The History of the Jewish Press in North America (1995) (1)
2 From World-Wide People to First-World People: The Consolidation of World Jewry (2014) (1)
American Judaism in Historical Perspective (2012) (1)
A Statement on Jewish Education: Text and Responses (2000) (1)
In Memoriam: Leon A. Jick (1924-2005) (2006) (1)
The Immigration Clause that Transformed Orthodox Judaism in the United States (2017) (1)
Jews, the Moral Majority, and American Tradition (1982) (1)
Roundtable on Anti-Semitism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (2020) (1)
What’s in a Name? A Response to Barry Chiswick (2009) (1)
AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY (1990) (1)
The Jewish Confederates (review) (2001) (1)
The Jewish Vote in Presidential Elections (2012) (1)
Forum on Contemporary American Jewry: Grounds for Optimism or Pessimism? (2019) (1)
American Jews in the New Millennium (2003) (1)
Celebrating 350 Years of American Jewish Life (2003) (0)
Historia u' Politika (History and politics). By Yehoshua Arieli. (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1992. 488 pp. Paper, I£ 36.55, ISBN 965-13-0796-X.) In Hebrew (1994) (0)
The Letters by A.M. Klein (review) (2014) (0)
Isidor Kalisch’s Pioneering Translation of Sepher Yetsirah (1877) and Its Rosicrucian Legacy (2020) (0)
From Synagogue-Community to Community of Synagogues: A Turning Point in American Jewish History (1990) (0)
Coming to Terms with America (2021) (0)
Why America Has No Chief Rabbi (2013) (0)
[Review of] Harvey E. Goldberg, ed. and trans., The Book of Mordechai: A Study of the Jews of Libya (1982) (0)
Lincoln and the Jews: A History (2015) (0)
“TO BIGOTRY NO SANCTION”: (2021) (0)
New Perspectives in American Jewish History (2021) (0)
Judaica Americana. Bibliography (1995) (0)
Leonard Bernstein and the Boston Jewish Community of His Youth: The Influence of Solomon Braslavsky, Herman Rubenovitz, and Congregation Mishkan Tefila (2009) (0)
A time to every purpose (2008) (0)
Listening to Eugene Borowitz (1993) (0)
Reviews of Books:Catholics and Jews in Twentieth-Century America Egal Feldman (2003) (0)
Made in America: The Problem of the Second Generation Jew@@@Jacksonian Jew: The Two Worlds of Mordecai Noah.@@@At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews. (1982) (0)
“God Loves an Infant’s Praise”: Cultural Borrowing and Cultural Resistance in Two Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Sunday-School Texts (2013) (0)
Dreaming the Future of the American Jewish Community (1995) (0)
Marshall sklare: In memory (1993) (0)
Hebrew Printing in America 1735-1926: A History and Annotated Bibliography (review) (2007) (0)
Contact: The Journal of the Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life -- Money in Crisis (2009) (0)
3. Union and Disunion (2017) (0)
Jewish Boston, Athens, and Jerusalem (2020) (0)
Lewis Feuer and the Study of American Jewish History (2013) (0)
The Family Letters of Louis D. Brandeis (review) (2005) (0)
Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity. By Lila Corwin Berman. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xii, 266 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 978-0-520-25680-4. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-520-25681-1.) (2009) (0)
As a professor of Jewish Studies, how do you perceiveyour responsibility to the Jewish community? (2012) (0)
Andrew R. Heinze. Adapting to Abundance: Jewish Immigrants, Mass Consumption, and the Search for American Identity . New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. x, 276 pp. (1992) (0)
The American Jewish Press (2012) (0)
Conservative Rabbis : their movement, and American Judaism. Responses (1995) (0)
THE EARLIEST (2021) (0)
The Jewish Experience in American Public and Private Education (1998) (0)
12. How Matzah Became Square: Manischewitz and the Development of Machine-Made Matzah in the United States (2019) (0)
Revivals and Awakenings in American Judaism, pt. 1 (2011) (0)
Goldstein, "The Politics of Ethnic Pressure" (1993) (0)
Review: The Family Letters of Louis D. Brandeis (2005) (0)
1. Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Letter to the Jewish Community of Teaneck (2020) (0)
Lee Max Friedman Award–Lecture (2016) (0)
RESIGNING TO CHANGE: THE FOUNDATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR JUDAISM (2009) (0)
Jewish Scholarship and American Jewish Continuity (1993) (0)
JPS: the americanization of Jewish culture, 1888 - 1988; a centennial history of the Jewish Publication Society (1989) (0)
'The Lady of Longueville Clarke': Maria Hart Myers (1794-1868) and her family (2016) (0)
Dicker "The Mayer Sulzberger: Alexander Marx Correspondence" (1992) (0)
“God Loves an Infant’s Praise”: Cultural Borrowing and Cultural Resistance in Two Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Sunday-School Texts (2013) (0)
Jewish Women without Money: The Case of Cora Wilburn (1824–1906) (2018) (0)
North American Jews In The New Millennium (2008) (0)
The Bible and Judaism in America (2018) (0)
Heinze's singleminded focus notwithstanding—were simultaneously trans- forming American Jewish life, both from within and from without (2008) (0)
Document View-ProQuest (2010) (0)
Dreams of Freedom (2011) (0)
Charles Liebman: 1934-2003 (2003) (0)
Building the Future: Jewish Immigrant Intellectuals and the Making of Tsukunft (2002) (0)
THE ESSENCE OF AMERICAN JUDAISM: A REVIEW ESSAY (1983) (0)
Hughes, Aaron W. Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast. New York: New York University Press, 2016. xi+319 pp. $35.00. (2018) (0)
The Jewish Confederates (2002) (0)
REVIEW: Zvi Ganin.AN UNEASY RELATIONSHIP: AMERICAN JEWISH LEADERSHIP AND ISRAEL, 1948-1957. and Fred Lazin.THE STRUGGLE FOR SOVIET JEWRY IN AMERICAN POLITICS: ISRAEL VERSUS THE AMERICAN JEWISH ESTABLISHMENT. and Stuart Altshuler.FROM EXODUS TO FREEDOM: A HISTORY OF THE SOVIET JEWRY MOVEMENT. (2006) (0)
A Great Awakening (1995) (0)
My Life in American Jewish History (2019) (0)
The 350th Anniversary of American Jewish Life (2004) (0)
Contributors (2017) (0)
The Rise of Reform Judaism: A Sourcebook of its European Origins by W. Gunther Plaut, and: The Growth of Reform Judaism: American and European Sources by W. Gunther Plaut (review) (2016) (0)
The Forgetting of Cora Wilburn: Historical Amnesia and The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature (2018) (0)
The Freethinker, the Jews, and the Missionaries: George Houston and the Mystery of Israel Vindicated (1980) (0)
Church-State Dilemmas of American Jews (2021) (0)
America’s Most Memorable Zionist Leaders (2015) (0)
Lewis Feuer and the Study of American Jewish History (2013) (0)
9. Jewish Prayers for the U.S. Government: A Study in the Liturgy of Politics and the Politics of Liturgy (2019) (0)
Why Study American Jewish History (2003) (0)
Jews, Turks, and Infidels. By Morton Borden. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. x + 163 pp. Notes, bibliographical note, and index. $17.95.) (1985) (0)
Jewish History: The Big Picture (2008) (0)
Forgotten Soldiers: Jewish Women and the American Civil War (2011) (0)
The Relationship of Orthodox Jews with Believing Jews of Other Religious Ideologies and Non-Believing Jews: The American Situation in Historical Perspective (2010) (0)
Structural Challenges to Jewish Continuity (1997) (0)
Review: The Book of Mordechai: A Study of the Jews of Libya edited and trans by Harvey E. Goldberg (1982) (0)

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