American Jewish History back issues from September 1998:
The Real Mary Antin: Woman on a Mission in the Promised Land.
Sep 01, 1998; ... The majority of people who are interested in American Jewish History, and certainly all those interested in immigration history, have heard of a turn-of-the-century author named Mary Antin. However, despite this superficial name recognition, few people know what literary inventiveness this ...
Beyond San Francisco: The Failure of Anti-Zionism in Portland, Oregon.
Sep 01, 1998; ... Historians of the Jewish experience in the American West have struggled to break free of generalizations based on the eastern metropolitan experience that have ruled American Jewish history. Critical studies of Jewish life in the western states have delineated important points of contrast ...
Wright's Beth Sholom Synagogue.(Architect Frank Lloyd Wright)
Sep 01, 1998; ... Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) designed more than 1,000 buildings, for a myriad of uses, throughout America. Admired internationally by architects, historians, and the general public, he is often associated with two structures: Fallingwater, the country house in western Pennsylvania, and ...
Necrology: Milton Hindus, 1916-1998.(Brandeis University professor of literature)
Sep 01, 1998; ... In the preface to his Essays: Personal and Impersonal (1988), Milton Hindus spelled out the underlying principle of his life's work: "My conviction is that the most important life is that of the mind, and if this does not transpire through all the writer's work, then indeed he has written ...
Letter to the Editor.
Sep 01, 1998; ... To the Editor: Many thanks for your series: Directions In Southern Jewish History (85:3 and 85:4). It brought to mind an observation I stumbled across during my research as the archivist for Agudath Achim Congregation in Shreveport, Louisiana. But first allow me to set the stage ...
A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism.(Review)
Sep 01, 1998; ... A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism. By Jeffrey S. Gurock and Jacob S. Schacter. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. pp. 220. A collaborative effort between Jeffrey S. Gurock, noted historian of American Jewish ...
Alternatives to Assimilation: The Response of Reform Judaism to American Culture, 1840-1930.(Review)
Sep 01, 1998; ... Alternatives to Assimilation: The Response of Reform Judaism to American Culture, 1840-1930. By Alan Silverstein. Hanover, N. H.: Brandeis University Press, 1994. x + 275 pp. In Alternatives to Assimilation, Alan Silverstein brings a fresh perspective to our understanding of the ...
The Emergence of American Zionism.(Review)
Sep 01, 1998; ... The Emergence of American Zionism. By Mark A. Raider (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), 296 pp. + xvii Minority factions in the American Jewish community have attracted increased scholarly attention in recent years. Studies of the non-Zionists and ...