American Jewish History articles

Recent articles from American Jewish History

Introduction.
March 1, 2008... Louis Marshall's life and career illustrate the complexity of the Jewish experience in the turbulent decades that spanned the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Born in 1856, Marshall's meteoric trajectory carried him from provincial upstate New York to the epicenter of America's central...

Two Jewish lawyers named Louis.(Louis Brandeis, Louis Marshall)(Biography)
March 1, 2008... The year 1856 was a vintage year for brilliant Jewish lawyers named Louis. On November 13, 1856, Louis Brandeis was born in Louisville, Kentucky. One month later, on December 14, 1856, Louis Marshall was born in Syracuse, New York. Louis and Louis were both first-generation Americans, born of...

Louis Marshall: an American Jewish Diplomat in Paris, 1919.
March 1, 2008... "I feel grateful to the almighty that be has enabled me to lead in this sacred cause for right, justice, and equality." (1) In the spring and early summer of 1919, Louis Marshall spent three arduous months at the Paris Peace Conference defending the rights of Jews in the new states of...

Louis Marshall and the democratization of Jewish identity.
March 1, 2008... Louis Marshall is a luminous figure in American Jewish history. The list of Jewish leadership posts he held at various phases of his career, including positions as president of the American Jewish Committee, president of Temple Emanu-El, and chair of the board of directors of the Jewish...

Confronting antisemitism in America: Louis Marshall and Henry Ford.
March 1, 2008... Louis Marshall served as president of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) from 1912 until his death in 1929. In that capacity, he became the man to whom "all Jewish issues of the time" were referred. (1) He brought to that task both a passionate commitment to the well-being of the Jewish...