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Ava F. Kahn
Ava F. Kahn is a former research associate at the Western Jewish History Center of the Magnes Museum and fellow at the California Studies Center, Berkeley. Her publications include...view moreAva F. Kahn is a former research associate at the Western Jewish History Center of the Magnes Museum and fellow at the California Studies Center, Berkeley. Her publications include Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush: A Documentary History 1849-1880 (Wayne State University Press, 2002), Jewish Life in the American West, California Jews, co-edited with Marc Dollinger, and Jews of the Pacific Coast: Reinventing Community on America's Edge, co-authored with Ellen Eisenberg and William Toll. At present she is working on a documentary film on Jewish reinvention in post-1960s America and researching the role of American Jews in the military and in the home front during WWI. Adam D. Mendelsohn is associate professor of Jewish studies and director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture at the College of Charleston. He is the author of The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed their Way to Success in America and British Empire (New York University Press, 2014) and editor, with Jonathan D. Sarna, of Jews and the Civil War: A Reader.view less