American Jewish History back issues from June 2007:
Introduction.(Editorial)
Jun 01, 2007; ... On June 5, 2006, more than a hundred scholars arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, for the seventh Biennial Scholars' Conference on American Jewish History, sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Jewish Archives, and the College of Charleston. Focused on the ...
Regionalism: the significance of place in American Jewish life.(Roundtable)(Viewpoint essay)
Jun 01, 2007; ... "For as Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation." --Captain John Smith, 1624 (1) The following is a transcript of a roundtable session held at the 2006 Biennial ...
Tevye on king street: Charleston and the translation of Sholem Aleichem.
Jun 01, 2007; ... Of the green, equatorial jungles, lakes full of noises and blue skies. At eleven in the evening we came into Charleston --Frania Mazo, December 1922 (1) In June 1946, barely a year after the end of the war in Europe, Crown Publishers in New York printed a collection ...
The 1794 Synagogue of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim of Charleston: reconstructed and reconsidered.
Jun 01, 2007; ... On September 19, 1794, the last Shabbat before Rosh Hashanah, Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (KKBE) dedicated its new synagogue in Charleston, South Carolina. Governor William Moultrie, along with "the lieutenant-governor, the civil and military officers of the state, the municipal authorities, ...
Tongue ties: the emergence of the Anglophone Jewish diaspora in the mid-nineteenth century *.
Jun 01, 2007; ... Neither Rebecca Gratz nor Isaac Leeser ever traveled to the dusty town of Geelong in Victoria, Australia. But their ideas did. (1) Geelong was certainly no center of Australian Jewish life: the community mushroomed from 11 Jews in 1848 to 128 Jews in 1861 before beginning a steady decline ....
Whistling "Dixie" while humming "Ha-Tikvah": acculturation and activism among Orthodox Jews in Fort Worth.
Jun 01, 2007; ... Fort Worth's Jewish history is a tale of two congregations--in common parlance, a "temple" and a "shul." At the shul, Ahavath Sholom, a traditional congregation dating to 1892, men and women sat separately, worshipers davened in Hebrew, and minutes were written in Yiddish. The temple, ...
Presentation of the Lee Max Friedman medal to Gerald Sorin *.
Jun 01, 2007 ... The following remarks by Deborah Dash Moore, Chair of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society, were made on June 5, 2006, at the Biennial Scholars' Conference on American Jewish History in Charleston, South Carolina: It is a pleasure to present the Lee Max ...
Christians and Zionism.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2007; ... Cross on the Star of David: The Christian World in Israel's Foreign Policy, 1948-1967. By Uri Bialer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xiv + 240 pp. The Vatican-Israel Accords: Political, Legal, and Theological Contexts. Edited by Marshall J. Breger. Notre Dame: ...
Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History.(Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2007; ... Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History. Edited by Mark K. Bauman. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006.480 pp. Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History. Edited by Marcie Cohen Ferris and Mark I. Greenberg. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University ...
To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2007; ... To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico. By Stanley M. Hordes. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xxi + 348 pp. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, thousands of Jews in the Iberian peninsula converted to Catholicism under duress. An ...
The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2007; ... The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. By Jerome Karabel. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. viii + 711 pp. A skeptical professor once asked if archival materials existed to document the discriminatory admissions practices of ...
First Contact: Origins of the American-Israeli Connection, Halutzim from America during the Palestine Mandate.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2007; ... First Contact: Origins of the American-Israeli Connection, Halutzim from America during the Palestine Mandate. By Matthew Silver. West Hartford: The Graduate Group, 2006. 386 pp. A welcome addition to the history of American Jews in the Yishuv, First Contact delves into the ...
Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2007; ... Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History. By Deborah R. Weiner. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. viii + 234. Representations of Appalachia make it difficult to imagine Appalachia as anything other than a culturally and ethnically homogeneous place where, it has often ...