American Jewish History articles from December 2000

American Jewish History archives from December 2000

Introduction.
December 1, 2000... By all accounts Irving Howe was surprised by the overwhelming success of World of Our Fathers, his monumental study of Eastern European Jewish immigration to the United States. When he tried to explain his book's enormous popularity, he came to...

My Work on World of Our Fathers.
December 1, 2000... By the time I met Irving Howe in the mid-sixties as a graduate student at Hunter College, he was an established literary and social critic, political analyst, and supporter of socialism. What I admired most about Irving at the time was his...

Embracing World of Our Fathers: The Context of Reception.(Critical Essay)
December 1, 2000... Reflecting on the almost universally positive and wildly popular reception garnered by The World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made, Irving Howe commented with sarcasm that "Andy...

A Ghetto to Look Back To: World of Our Fathers, Ethnic Revival, and the Arc of Multiculturalism.(Critical Essay)
December 1, 2000... A Ghetto to Look Back To: World of Our Fathers, Ethnic Revival, and the Arc of Multiculturalism MATTHEW FRYE JACOBSON In the 2 January 1977 issue of The New York Times Book Review, the editors ran their annual picks of the best books...

Irving Howe's "Margin of Hope": World of Our Fathers as Autobiography.(Critical Essay)
December 1, 2000... "... it seems unlikely that anyone can choose a tradition, let alone simply decide to discard the one in which he has grown up. Life is not that programmatic; it is rare that the human will can be that imperious; and a tradition signifies...

But Is It History? World of Our Fathers as a Historicized Text.(Critical Essay)
December 1, 2000... Let me open with a caveat, because the title of my essay divulges its thesis--that we must be skeptical about World of Our Fathers as a work of history. During his tumultuous life as a public intellectual, Irving Howe had his share of triumphs...

World of Our Masters.(Critical Essay)
December 1, 2000... I seem to have read Irving Howe's World of Our Fathers a hundred times since my emigration to America from Poland in 1980. I read it first shortly after my arrival in this country, as I was intensely educating myself in American Jewish history,...

Socialism and the Writing of American Jewish History: World of Our Fathers Revisited(1).(Critical Essay)
December 1, 2000... "The International--we know what the International is. And I want an International of good people." Isaac Babel, "Gedali" Twenty-five years after its publication, Irving Howe's World of Our Fathers remains a classic. A best-seller,...

The World of Our Fathers and the World of Our Mothers.
December 1, 2000... "The immigrant mother... has left no word to posterity, certainly none in her own voice....Talk was a luxury that her labor would enable her sons to taste." Irving Howe, World of Our Fathers When Irving Howe's World of Our Fathers...

Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism. Edited by David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 280 pp. To those of us who have not been paying close attention to the...

And I Will Dwell in Their Midst: Orthodox Jews in Suburbia.(Review)
December 1, 2000... And I Will Dwell in Their Midst: Orthodox Jews in Suburbia. By Etan Diamond. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xx + 215 pp. In his book, And I Will Dwell in Their Midst, Etan Diamond demonstrates that traditionalist...

From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration.(Review)
December 1, 2000... From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration. By Nancy Foner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. x + 334 PP. Nancy Foner, an anthropologist who has written widely and well about Jamaicans both in the West Indies...

Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry. By Samuel G. Freedman. New York: Simon &: Schuster, 2000. 398 pp. Those who are partial to the lachrymose view of Jewish history will find Jew vs. Jew to be an enormously...

Divine Expectations: An American Women in 19tb-Century Palestine.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Divine Expectations: An American Women in 19tb-Century Palestine. By Barbara Kreiger with Shalom Goldman. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1999. xvii + 199 pp. Kreiger and Goldman pieced together various sources to create a riveting and...

The Response of Orthodox Jewry in The United States to the Holocaust: The Activities of the Vaad ha-Hatzala Rescue Committee, 1939-1945.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Response of Orthodox Jewry in The United States to the Holocaust: The Activities of the Vaad ha-Hatzala Rescue Committee, 1939-1945. By Ephraim Zuroff. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav and Yeshiva University Press, 2000. xxiv + 316 pp. From...