American Jewish History back issues from September 2003:
Introduction.(Editorial)
Sep 01, 2003 ... American Jewish History devotes this issue to the 350th anniversary of the Jewish people in America. In the three distinct parts into which it is divided, we invite attention not only to the past but to the future as well, looking forward, even now, with optimism and anticipation to the ...
Jewish settlement in the new world and its antecedents.(Part One: Reflections Upon American Jewish History)
Sep 01, 2003; ... In 2004-2005, American Jewry will celebrate the three-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of its founding. Attention will focus in multiple directions: the majority American ambiance and its stances toward Jewish immigrants; the diverse ways in which Jews have adapted to America; the creative ...
The normalization of American Jewish history.(Part One: Reflections Upon American Jewish History)
Sep 01, 2003; ... When I was a student some thirty-five years ago in one of the premier Ph.D. programs in Jewish history, at Columbia University, it was clear that American Jewish history fell outside the parameters of the field. True, one could study Jews as part of American history, but the American ...
The religion, Judaism, in America: what has happened in three hundred and fifty years?(Part One: Reflections Upon American Jewish History)
Sep 01, 2003; ... I. How Long Does Eternity Take? Four cases make the point that even a century is not a long time in which to realize a project of enduring influence in the history of Judaism--not including the fact that Moses could write down the whole Torah of Sinai in forty days! ...
Reflecting on American Jewish history.(Part One: Reflections Upon American Jewish History)
Sep 01, 2003; ... I must confess that, in some thirty years of writing and teaching Jewish history, I have not thought seriously about the American Jewish experience, with the notable exception of some basic reading to prepare me to introduce the subject in my broad survey courses on modern Jewish history ...
American Jews and the European gaze.(Part One: Reflections Upon American Jewish History)
Sep 01, 2003; ... Recall the description in Alfred Kazin's New York Jew of his meeting Hannah Arendt, depicted by the characteristically lyrical Kazin in terms both sensual and intellectually obsequious. What he finds in her, as he sees it, is a true European, an authentic intellectual grounded in ...
On their own terms: America's Jewish Women, 1954-2004.(Part Two: Recent American Jewish History, 1954-2004)
Sep 01, 2003; ... In the half century since the 1954 tercentenary celebration of Jewish life in America, a sea change has occurred in historical writing. As fresh approaches emerged, first social history and more recently cultural history, scholars of American Jewry eagerly embraced new angles of vision and ...
From institutional decay to primary day: American Orthodox Jewry since World War II.(Part Two: Recent American Jewish History, 1954-2004)
Sep 01, 2003; ... A number of works on American Jewry written during the early second-half of the twentieth century began with the contrast between the very pessimistic evaluations about the state of American Judaism at the end of the nineteenth century and the authors' more optimistic prognoses at ...
The changing Jewish political profile.(Part Two: Recent American Jewish History, 1954-2004)
Sep 01, 2003; ... The tendency of Jews to support Democratic candidates and liberal ideas is well known. This "liberalism shows no signs of flagging," Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab wrote in 1995, "because Jewish defensive needs, domestic and foreign, have been so congruent with the nature and program ...
Post-World-War-II American Jewry and the confrontation with catastrophe.(Part Two: Recent American Jewish History, 1954-2004)
Sep 01, 2003; ... From the perspective of early-twenty-first-century American Jewish communal culture, few issues loom as large or carry as much valence in the performance of Jewish identity as the Holocaust, the horrific destruction of six million Jews at the hands of the Nazis and the obliteration of ...
Dutch notarial records pertaining to Asser Levy, 1659-1692.(Part Three: New Documents for the Study of American Jewish History)
Sep 01, 2003; ... Among the voluminous records found in the Gemeente Archief (Municipal Archive) in Amsterdam are notarial archives, many of which relate to the New Amsterdam Jewish experience 350 years ago. Here can be found legal and business papers, as well as ones that contain such vital statistics as ...
Letters from Jamaica, 1719-1725.(Part Three: New Documents for the Study of American Jewish History)
Sep 01, 2003; ... The letters transcribed here were written by Diego Luis Gonsales (Gonzales) and his son, Abraham Gonsales, both of Jamaica, to Nathan Simson of New York and London. Informative about many commercial matters, they underscore the importance of transatlantic ties for Jewish settlers in ...
The diary of Joseph Lyons, 1833-1835.(Part Three: New Documents for the Study of American Jewish History)(Transcript)
Sep 01, 2003; ... Introduction On a warm April day in 1833, in the city of Savannah, Georgia, a young Jewish man opened the cover of a blank book and entered history. His name was Joseph Lyons, and his diary, presented here in its entirety for the first time, is remarkable for a number of ...
"The day is short and the task is great": reports from Jewish military chaplains in Europe, 1945-1947.(Part Three: New Documents for the Study of American Jewish History)
Sep 01, 2003; ... In November 1940, with war already underway in Europe and its clouds hanging over the United States, Frank L. Well, president of the Jewish Welfare Board, met with Assistant Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson "to discuss the religious needs of the Jewish personnel in the armed forces." ...
The 2003 concurrent resolution of Congress to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the American Jewish community.(Part Three: New Documents for the Study of American Jewish History)
Sep 01, 2003; ... Fifty years from now, when the American Jewish community begins to contemplate the 400th anniversary of Jewish settlement on these North American shores, researchers will inevitably compare and contrast the evolving character and content of the historical commemorations that shaped ...