American Jewish History back issues from March 2003:
Introduction.
Mar 01, 2003; ... This issue of American Jewish History, devoted to "Jews and Performance," seeks to expand the scope of the trajectory of Jews, Jewishness, and the performing arts. The seven essays included in it present a colorful mosaic of subject matter and points of reference. They are grounded in ...
The pulpit and the stage: Rabbi Joseph Silverman and the Actors' Church Alliance.
Mar 01, 2003; ... The interrelations between pulpit and stage constitute a curious lacuna in the historiography of the modern Jewish theater. Though surveys of Jewish theater customarily open with a citation of the biblical caution to avoid "the seat of the scornful" (Ps. 1:1) and stern Talmudic injunctions ...
The architecture of the Bimah in American synagogues: framing the ritual *.
Mar 01, 2003; ... The character of a synagogue building, like that of any other structure, can be understood in multiple ways, both by those who interact with the building and by those who examine and analyze it from an academic perspective. As the architectural historian Lindsay Jones has written in an ...
Performing Black-Jewish symbiosis: the "Hassidic Chant" of Paul Robeson.
Mar 01, 2003; ... On May 9, 1958, the African American singer and political activist Paul Robeson (1898-1976) performed "The Hassidic [sic] Chant of Levi Isaac," along with a host of spirituals and folk songs, before a devoted assembly of his fans at Carnegie Hall. The "Hassidic Chant," as Robeson entitled ...
Sinners, scandals, scoundrels, and scamps on the American Jewish stage.
Mar 01, 2003; ... Let us praise infamous Jews. Bad Jews have a good name in Western theater. Whether as a construct of Christian dogma or of antisemitism, or as an embodiment of Jewish protest or dissent, bad Jews serve admirably as vehicles for a gamut of notions and attitudes. Few figures more reliably ...
Death of a salesman: deracination and its discontents *.
Mar 01, 2003; ... <Pre>To me the theater is not a disconnected entertainment .... It'sthe sound and the ring of the spirit of the people at any onetime. It is where a collective mass of people, through the geniusof some author, is able to project its terrors and its hopes and tosymbolize ...
Avalon and Liberty Heights: toward a better understanding of the American Jewish experience through cinema.
Mar 01, 2003; ... In Avalon, a highly acclaimed film that was released in 1990, audiences and reviewers alike saw a saga of Jewish immigrants who arrived in America as part of the great wave of European newcomers who came to the shores of the United States during the first quarter of the twentieth century ....
It's the real world after all: the American-Israel Pavilion--Jordan Pavilion controversy at the New York World's Fair, 1964-1965.
Mar 01, 2003; ... In November 1962, upon learning of the State of Israel's decision not to participate in the 1964 New York World's Fair, the editors of the National Jewish Post and Opinion warned its American Jewish readers of the crucial opportunity about to be squandered. "Money is being spent to win ...
This House of Noble Deeds: the Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852-2002.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... This House of Noble Deeds: The Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852-2002. By Arthur H. Aufses, Jr. and Barbara J. Niss. New York: New York University Press, 2002. xii + 495 pp. The American philanthropic landscape is dotted with institutions seeking to heal society's ills. Absent a ...
Mordecai: an Early American Family.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... Mordecai: An Early American Family. By Emily Bingham. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. xii + 346 pp. Written with the sweep of a novel and the documentation of a dissertation, Mordecai: An Early American Family is a three-generation saga with suspense, tension, and analysis of ...
Family of Strangers: Building a Jewish Community in Washington State.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... Family of Strangers: Building a Jewish Community in Washington State. By Molly Cone, Howard Droker, and Jacqueline Willams. Seattle: Washington State Jewish Historical Society/University of Washington Press, 2003. xiii + 394 pp. Jews in Michigan. By Judith Levin Cantor. East ...
Her Works Praise Her: a History of Jewish Women in America From Colonial Times to the Present.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America From Colonial Times to the Present. By Hasia R. Diner and Beryl Lieff Benderly. New York: Basic Books, 2002. xvii + 462 pp. This ambitious work is a lengthy and lively social history of Jewish women in America. It begins ...
Nazis and Good Neighbors: the United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II. By Max Paul Friedman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 350 pp. The United States administration believes the nation may be endangered by a fifth column ...
Impossible Images: Contemporary Art After the Holocaust.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... Impossible Images: Contemporary Art After the Holocaust. Edited by Shelley Hornstein, Laura Levitt, and Laurence J. Silberstein. New York: New York University Press, 2003. x + 285 pp. Based on a conference at Lehigh University, the contributions in Impossible Images: ...
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature. By Michael P. Kramer and Hana Wirth-Nesher. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi + 296 pp. Those considering a writing career, be warned. If you choose to write about anything even tangentially Jewish--even ...
Divergent Jewish Cultures: Israel and America.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... Divergent Jewish Cultures: Israel and America. Edited by Deborah Dash Moore and S. Ilan Troen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. x + 358 pp. This book of fourteen essays plus epilogue is the third in the series of Studies in Jewish Culture and Society published under the ...
The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis. By Jerald E. Podair. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. xi + 273 pp. Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto. By Wendell Pritchen. Chicago: University of Chicago ...
Judaism in America.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... Judaism in America. By Marc Lee Raphael. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. viii + 234 pp. In 1957, Nathan Glazer published a volume entitled American Judaism as a part of a series in the Chicago History of American Civilization. (1) The work was a marked improvement ...
Going Greek: Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... Going Greek: Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945. By Marianne R. Sanua. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. 446 pp. Going Greek is Marianne R. Sanua's prodigiously researched study of Jewish Greek life at American colleges. Sanua explores the way ...
Diamond Stories: Enduring Change on 47th Street.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... Diamond Stories: Enduring Change on 47th Street. By Renee Rose Shield. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. 288 pp. Almost all diamonds imported into the United States pass through New York City. A large majority of these are traded on 47th Street between Fifth and Sixth ...
Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights. By Clive Webb. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2001. xvii + 307 pp. From his academic perch on the other side of the Atlantic, University of Sussex scholar Clive Webb has emerged as one of the most talented ...
Renewal: Reconnecting Soviet Jewry to the Jewish People; a Decade of American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC) Activities in the Former Soviet Union, 1988-1998.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... Renewal: Reconnecting Soviet Jewry to the Jewish People; a Decade of American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC) Activities in the Former Soviet Union, 1988-1998. By Anita Weiner. Lanham: University Press of America, 2003. xv + 491 pp. In 1938, the Soviet Union evicted ...