American Jewish History articles from December 2002

American Jewish History archives from December 2002

The transatlantic connection: the American Jewish Committee and the Joint Foreign Committee in defense of German Jews, 1933-1937 *.
December 1, 2002... Modern Jewish historiography abounds with national histories. We turn out countless books on the history of the Jews in England, France, Germany, and the United States. I would like to suggest that historians focus more specifically on the...

Original inventories of early New York Jews (1682-1763) (concluded).
December 1, 2002... [Editor's Note: In this issue, American Jewish History concludes publication of all known surviving inventories of the Jews of colonial New York City. The extant inventories were originally thought to number twelve, as indicated in our previous...

Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage. By Joel Berkowitz, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002. xvi + 283 pp. Some one hundred years ago, if a visitor to New York (or Warsaw or London or Paris) were interested in experiencing...

Gravity Fails: the Comic Jewish Shaping of Modern America.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Gravity Fails: The Comic Jewish Shaping of Modern America. By James D. Bloom. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. xvii + 192 pp. James Bloom has tackled a fascinating and difficult subject. Jewish humor, particularly American Jewish humor, has...

New York Glory: Religions in the City.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... New York Glory: Religions in the City. Edited by Tony Carnes and Anna Karpathakis. New York: New York University Press, 2001. xv + 440 pp. The dynamism and variety of religious life in New York City animates this interesting volume of...

Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: a Cultural History up to World War II.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History up to World War II. By Steven Alan Carr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 336 pp. Despite its title's protestations, Carr's book is not a cultural history of the complex and...

The Shabbat Elevator and Other Subterfuges: an Unorthodox Essay on Circumventing Custom and Jewish Character.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... The Shabbat Elevator and Other Subterfuges: An Unorthodox Essay on Circumventing Custom and Jewish Character. By Alan Dundes. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. xii + 199 pp. At a certain point in this strange little book, the noted...

The Holocaust, Israel, and Canadian Protestant Churches.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... The Holocaust, Israel, and Canadian Protestant Churches. By Haim Genizi. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. xvi + 320 pp. I wonder how many North American Jews had ever heard, three years ago, of Durban, South Africa, or of...

The Jews and the Nation: Revolution, Emancipation, State Formation, and the Liberal Paradigm in America and France.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... The Jews and the Nation: Revolution, Emancipation, State Formation, and the Liberal Paradigm in America and France. By Frederic Cople Jaher. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. x + 295 PP. Frederic Cople Jaher's new book, The Jews...

New York: Capital of Photography.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... New York: Capital of Photography. By Max Kozloff. New York and New Haven: Jewish Museum and Yale University Press, 2002. x + 205 pp. Max Kozloff's New York: Capital of Photography is a beautifully produced compilation of images of the city...

Medicalized Motherhood: Perspectives from the Lives of African-American and Jewish Women.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Medicalized Motherhood: Perspectives from the Lives of African-American and Jewish Women. By Jacquelyn S. Litt. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000. xi + 189 pp. Dr. Benjamin Spock's influential Baby and Child Care, published in...

Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000. By Melani McAlister. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xv + 358 pp. We are inundated by images of the Middle East. From the "saturation...

Militant Zionism in America: the Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States, 1926-1948.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Militant Zionism in America: The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States, 1926-1948. By Rafael Medoff. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002. viii + 290 pp. Although it was surely not Rafael Medoff's intent,...

Jewish Polity and American Civil Society: Communal Agencies and Religious Movements in the American Public Square.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Jewish Polity and American Civil Society: Communal Agencies and Religious Movements in the American Public Square. Edited by Alan Mittleman, Jonathan D. Sarna, and Robert Licht. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. xvi + 420. I'll get...

Fixing the World: Jewish American Painters in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Fixing the World: Jewish American Painters in the Twentieth Century. By Ori Z. Soltes. Hanover: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 2003. x + 160 pp., 90 illus. Prompted by the advent of multicultural studies,...

Irving Howe: a Life of Passionate Dissent.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent. By Gerald Sorin. New York: New York University Press, 2002, xiv + 380 pp. Best known as the editor of Dissent magazine and author of the best-selling World of Our Fathers, Irving Howe engaged many...

Zionism and the Fin de Siecle. Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Zionism and the Fin de Siecle. Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky. By Michael Stanislawsky. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xxi + 275 pp. This book belongs to the growing body of revisionist literature...

Good Americans: Italian and Jewish Immigrants During the First World War.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Good Americans: Italian and Jewish Immigrants During the First World War. By Christopher M. Sterba. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. viii +271 pp. Traditionally historians examining the impact of World War One on immigrants have...

American Jewish Historical Society 2003 Prizes and Fellowships.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Saul Viener Book Prize Gerald Sorin, Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent (New York University Press, 2002) Ruth B. Fein Fellowships for Research in the Collections Susan Roth Breitzer, University of Iowa "A Tale of Two...