American Jewish History articles from December 1997

American Jewish History archives from December 1997

Southern rabbis and the founding of the first national association of rabbis. (establishment of the Central Conference of American Rabbis)
December 1, 1997... The reconstruction of the history of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) usually begins with the details of a "Preliminary Meeting" held in Detroit, Michigan, on July 9-10, 1889. At this meeting the rabbis in attendance resolved to...

The settlement of Rhodian and other Sephardic Jews in Montgomery and Atlanta in the twentieth century. (Montgomery, Alabama; Atlanta, Georgia)
December 1, 1997... Development of the Sephardic Community of Montgomery The first Jews in Alabama were three Sephardic Jews--Samuel Israel, Alexander Solomon, and Joseph Depalacios--who bought property in Mobile County on July 9, 1765.(1) However, this...

When hate came to town: New Orleans' Jews and George Lincoln Rockwell.
December 1, 1997... It is a truism that Jewish identity has traditionally been more attenuated in the South. The greater degree of assimilation below the Potomac is mainly a byproduct of pressures felt by Southern whites of all stripes to toe the line on matters...

Erratum. (corrections to 'Dust and Ashes: The Funeral and Forgeting of Sabato Morais,' American Jewish History, vol. 84, no.3, September 1996, p. 155)
December 1, 1997... Correction to Arthur Kiron, "Dust and Ashes: The Funeral and Forgetting of Sabato Morais," American Jewish History vol. 84, no. 3 (September 1996), pp. 155-88 (page 156, note 2): The correct date of Sabato Morais' nahalah (the Sephardic...

Zionism and the Arabs: An American Jewish Dilemma, 1898-1948.
December 1, 1997... Zionism and the Arabs: An American Jewish dilemma, 1898-1948. By Rafael Medoff, Westport, CT., Praeger, 1997. 200 pp. $55.00. For at least 150 years, American Jews have fervently and incessantly proclaimed the unity of Jewish and American...