Recently added articles from American Jewish History:
Editor's introduction.(Editorial)
Sep 01, 2008; ... American Jewish History has long featured the work of younger scholars, not only as a means of encouraging new talent, but also as a way of bringing fresh, challenging ideas to our readers from the pens of those best versed in the most recent trends of historical analysis and ...
"No whisky Amazons in the tents of Israel": American Jews and the gilded age temperance movement.(Essay)
Sep 01, 2008; ... In November 1874, a collective of temperance-minded women gathered in Cleveland, Ohio. Their goal: to establish a national political organization that would work toward the total eradication of beverage alcohol from American life. They named their confederation the Woman's Christian ...
"They are slitting the throats of Jewish children": the 1906 New York school riots and contending images of gentiles.
Sep 01, 2008; ... In 1906 thousands of wailing Jewish parents stormed more than a dozen public schools across the city of New York, believing their children were being massacred. Though this event has largely been neglected by historians, the Jewish immigrant population's responses to it, especially through ...
Not-quite-closed gates: Jewish alien smuggling in the post-quota years.(Essay)
Sep 01, 2008; ... On February 11, 1928, the S.S. Iroquois had just completed the short voyage from Havana to Miami when U.S. immigration inspectors detained one of the ship's Jewish passengers. This traveler's documents identified him as thirty-two-year-old Sam Weisstein, born in Poland but now a ...
In Memoriam: Jonathan Frankel, 1935-2008.(In memoriam)
Sep 01, 2008; ... Jonathan Frankel, who was Professor Emeritus in Russian studies and modern Jewish history at The Hebrew University, died in Jerusalem on May 7, 2008, at age seventy-two. With his passing, the world of Jewish studies lost one of its seminal thinkers, an honored colleague and teacher, and, ...