Recently added articles from American Jewish History:
Introduction.
Mar 01, 2008; ... Louis Marshall's life and career illustrate the complexity of the Jewish experience in the turbulent decades that spanned the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Born in 1856, Marshall's meteoric trajectory carried him from provincial upstate New York to the epicenter of America's central ...
Two Jewish lawyers named Louis.(Louis Brandeis, Louis Marshall)(Biography)
Mar 01, 2008; ... The year 1856 was a vintage year for brilliant Jewish lawyers named Louis. On November 13, 1856, Louis Brandeis was born in Louisville, Kentucky. One month later, on December 14, 1856, Louis Marshall was born in Syracuse, New York. Louis and Louis were both first-generation Americans, born ...
Louis Marshall: an American Jewish Diplomat in Paris, 1919.
Mar 01, 2008; ... "I feel grateful to the almighty that be has enabled me to lead in this sacred cause for right, justice, and equality." (1) In the spring and early summer of 1919, Louis Marshall spent three arduous months at the Paris Peace Conference defending the rights of Jews in the new ...
Louis Marshall and the democratization of Jewish identity.
Mar 01, 2008; ... Louis Marshall is a luminous figure in American Jewish history. The list of Jewish leadership posts he held at various phases of his career, including positions as president of the American Jewish Committee, president of Temple Emanu-El, and chair of the board of directors of the Jewish ...
Confronting antisemitism in America: Louis Marshall and Henry Ford.
Mar 01, 2008; ... Louis Marshall served as president of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) from 1912 until his death in 1929. In that capacity, he became the man to whom "all Jewish issues of the time" were referred. (1) He brought to that task both a passionate commitment to the well-being of the Jewish ...
The Aristocrat and the Democrat: Louis Marshall, Stephen S. Wise and the Challenge of American Jewish Leadership.(Essay)
Mar 01, 2008; ... Louis Marshall and Stephen S. Wise are, in many ways, a study in contrasts. They were so dissimilar in character, temperament, and even appearance as to seem natural antagonists. Marshall was born in Syracuse, New York, a decade prior to the Civil War. A product of the German-speaking ...
You Never Call! You Never Write!: A History of the Jewish Mother.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008; ... You Never Call! You Never Write!: A History of the Jewish Mother. By Joyce Antler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii + 321 pp. The Jewish mother is a familiar, and stereotyped, figure in literature, theater, comedy, film, and television. We know far more about her as ...
Polish-Jewish Relations in North America, volume 19 of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008; ... Polish-Jewish Relations in North America, volume 19 of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry. Edited by Mieczyslaw B. Biskupski and Antony Polonsky. Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2007. xvi + 653 pp. This sizeable issue of Polin attempts to fill an even more ...
American Judaism in Popular Culture.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008; ... American Judaism in Popular Culture. Edited by Leonard J. Greenspoon and Ronald A. Simkins. Studies in Jewish Civilization Vol. 17. Omaha: Creighton University Press, 2007. xvi + 286 pp. In the recent movie Wedding Daze (dir. Michael Ian Black, 2006), an Orthodox Jewish ...
Covenant of Care: Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in America.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008; ... Covenant of Care: Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in America. By Alan M. Kraut and Deborah A. Kraut. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007. vii + 328 pp. Covenant of Care: Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in America tells the story of New Jersey's ...
A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008; ... A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. By Karen Pastorello. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xvii + 273 PP. Karen Pastorello's new book is both a throwback and a welcome innovation. It is a ...
I Did It My Way: Women Remaking American Judaism.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008; ... I Did It My Way: Women Remaking American Judaism. Edited by Riv-Ellen Prell. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007. xii + 331 PP. The editor of this collection of essays, Riv-Ellen Prell, characterizes the volume as a product of the "thirty-five-year gestation of American ...
Russian Jews on Three Continents: Identity, Integration, and Conflict.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008; ... Russian Jews on Three Continents: Identity, Integration, and Conflict. By Larissa Remennick. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2007. ix + 408 pp. In three major aspects Larissa Remennick's book successfully fills a gap in the study of the historically under-documented ...
Rabbis & Their Community: Studies in the Eastern European Orthodox Rabbinate in Montreal, 1896-1930.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008; ... Rabbis & Their Community: Studies in the Eastern European Orthodox Rabbinate in Montreal, 1896-1930. By Ira Robinson. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007. xi + 166 pp. In recent years we evidence a welcome rise in scholarly interest in eastern European Orthodox rabbis and ...
Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008; ... Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics. By Maeera Y. Shreiber. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xi + 287 pp. A persistent item on the agenda of American Jewish culture, at least since the publication of Cynthia Ozick's 1970 manifesto "Toward A New ...
Radio and the Jews: The Untold Story of How Radio Influenced America's Image of Jews, 1920s-1950s.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008; ... Radio and the Jews: The Untold Story of How Radio Influenced America's Image of Jews, 1920s-1950s. By David S. Siegel and Susan Siegel. Yorktown Heights, NY: Book Hunter Press, 2007. viii + 283 pp. Numerous scholarly works have examined the image of Jews in popular theater, ...
White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics and the Shaping of Postwar Politics.
Mar 01, 2008; ... White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics and the Shaping of Postwar Politics. By Joshua M. Zeitz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiii + 278 pp. The book makes three contributions to the field of the study of postwar politics in America. First, it aims to ...
"May a freethinker help a pious man?": the shared world of the "religious" and the "secular" among eastern European Jewish immigrants to America.(Essay)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Beginning in 1902, the Forverts (Jewish Daily Forward), already well on its way to becoming the most widely-read Yiddish newspaper in New York, debuted a series of debates that provided conflicting perspectives on serious as well as frivolous issues, from questions of morality and honesty ...
American Jews and the ambivalence of middle-classness.(Essay)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Class in the United States may be one of the hardest things to determine, and yet one of the most determinant forces. While this has not always been the case, it has increasingly been so since the end of the Second World War, when a mix of economic prosperity and consumer culture helped ...
From the "Jerusalem of the Balkans" to the goldene medina: Jewish immigration from Salonika to the United States.(Salonika, Greece)(Essay)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Who are these strangers who can be seen in the ghetto of the East Side, sitting outside of coffee-houses smoking strange-looking waterpipes, sipping a dark liquid from tiny cups and playing a game of checkers and dice, a game that we are not familiar with? See the signs on these ...