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American Jewish History archives from December 1998
Moses E. Levy of Florida: A Jewish Abolitionist Abroad.
December 1, 1998... At first glance the life of Moses Elias Levy appears to be enveloped in contradictions: Jewish colonizer and former arms dealer, frontier settler and urban sophisticate, radical religious reformer and biblical conservative--these apparent...
Reconstructionist Judaism in the Mind of Mordecai Kaplan: The Transformation from a Philosophy into a Religious Denomination.
December 1, 1998... In Judaism as a Civilization (Judaism), the 1934 magnum opus in which he most elaborately defined his program for the reconstruction of the American Jewish people, Mordecai Menachem Kaplan made no mention of developing his philosophy into an...
BEN SHAHN, THE FOUR FREEDOMS, AND THE SS ST. LOUIS.
December 1, 1998... In 1934, as part of the New Deal art programs, the Treasury Department created the Section of Painting and Sculpture (the Section) to secure "art of the best quality available" for new federal buildings. Section officials often awarded...
American Jewish Studies: A Periodic Report of the Status of the Field.
December 1, 1998... Recent Dissertations in American Jewish Studies (Continued from American Jewish History, Vol. 86, No. 1)
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33 Nysenholc, Judith. Ghost writers: remembering the Holocaust in America [P. Roth, C. Ozick, A. Spiegelman, etc.] U of...
NECROLOGY: JOHN J. APPEL, 1921-1998.(Obituary)
December 1, 1998... In January 1956, Jacob Rader Marcus, editor of American Jewish Archives, placed a brief notice in that journal asking readers to help a young scholar who was interested in collecting material on the Jews as characters in American fiction and...
Rabbi Max Heller: Reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Rabbi Max Heller: Reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929. By Bobbie Malone. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997. pp. xvii + 275.
This book represents the latest installment in the University of Alabama Press's Judaic Studies...
HENRY ROTH PAPERS OPEN JUNE 14 TO ALL RESEARCHERS.
December 1, 1998... Henry Roth, one of the most secretive writers in American literature, the author of Call it Sleep, Shifting Landscape, and the Mercy ora Rude Stream series, died in October 1995 at the age of 89. Compared in his silence to Salinger and Ellison,...