American Jewish History back issues from December 1998:
Moses E. Levy of Florida: A Jewish Abolitionist Abroad.
Dec 01, 1998; ... At first glance the life of Moses Elias Levy appears to be enveloped in contradictions: Jewish colonizer and former arms dealer, frontier settler and urban sophisticate, radical religious reformer and biblical conservative--these apparent incongruities continue to hinder any facile ...
Reconstructionist Judaism in the Mind of Mordecai Kaplan: The Transformation from a Philosophy into a Religious Denomination.
Dec 01, 1998; ... In Judaism as a Civilization (Judaism), the 1934 magnum opus in which he most elaborately defined his program for the reconstruction of the American Jewish people, Mordecai Menachem Kaplan made no mention of developing his philosophy into an autonomous denomination of Judaism. On the ...
BEN SHAHN, THE FOUR FREEDOMS, AND THE SS ST. LOUIS.
Dec 01, 1998; ... In 1934, as part of the New Deal art programs, the Treasury Department created the Section of Painting and Sculpture (the Section) to secure "art of the best quality available" for new federal buildings. Section officials often awarded commissions on the basis of anonymous competitions.(1) ...
American Jewish Studies: A Periodic Report of the Status of the Field.
Dec 01, 1998; ... Recent Dissertations in American Jewish Studies (Continued from American Jewish History, Vol. 86, No. 1) 1996 33 Nysenholc, Judith. Ghost writers: remembering the Holocaust in America [P. Roth, C. Ozick, A. Spiegelman, etc.] U of Wisconsin - Madison 1997 ...
NECROLOGY: JOHN J. APPEL, 1921-1998.(Obituary)
Dec 01, 1998; ... In January 1956, Jacob Rader Marcus, editor of American Jewish Archives, placed a brief notice in that journal asking readers to help a young scholar who was interested in collecting material on the Jews as characters in American fiction and drama. The scholar was John J. Appel, an ...
Rabbi Max Heller: Reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929.(Review)
Dec 01, 1998; ... Rabbi Max Heller: Reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929. By Bobbie Malone. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997. pp. xvii + 275. This book represents the latest installment in the University of Alabama Press's Judaic Studies Series, which sheds light on a relatively ...
HENRY ROTH PAPERS OPEN JUNE 14 TO ALL RESEARCHERS.
Dec 01, 1998 ... Henry Roth, one of the most secretive writers in American literature, the author of Call it Sleep, Shifting Landscape, and the Mercy ora Rude Stream series, died in October 1995 at the age of 89. Compared in his silence to Salinger and Ellison, Henry Roth fascinated the literary public ...