American Jewish Identity Politics (University of Michigan Press, 2008)
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GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation (Harvard University Press, 2004)
Cityscapes: A History of New York in Images. With Howard Rock. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001; paperback 2003.
Divergent Jewish Cultures: Israel in America. Co-editor with S. Ilan Troen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. Co-editor with Paula Hyman. 2 vol. New York: Routledge, 1997.
To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L.A. New York: The Free Press, 1994; paperback, Harvard University Press, 1996.
Jewish Settlement and Community in the Modern Western World. Edited with Ronald Dotterer and Steven Cohen. Susquehanna University Studies, 1991.
East European Jews in Two Worlds: Studies from the YIVO Annual. Edited. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1990.
B’nai Brith and the Challenge of Ethnic Leadership. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981.
At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981; paperback 1983.