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American Jewish History archives from December 2004
Invisible points of departure: reading Rothko's christological imagery *.(Mark Rothko)
December 1, 2004... There are some artists who want to tell all, but I feel it is more shrewd to tell little.
Mark Rothko, 1958
Jewish identity increasingly figures in new histories of modernism in general, analyses of American art, and, recently,...
"A struggle which has ended so beneficently": a century of Jewish historical writing about the American Civil War.
December 1, 2004... The Civil War has arguably been the most contested area in American historiography. The guns had barely fallen silent before politicians, polemicists, and historians mustered to refight the military and political battles of the war. Even though...
Western reality: Jewish diversity during the "German" period *.
December 1, 2004... Recognition of diversity in American Jewish history has emerged during the last several decades. Where New York and other eastern Jewish communities were once accepted as the model of development, recent histories recognize variations in the...
Earlier American Jewish anniversary celebrations: 1905 and 1954.(In Search Of ...)
December 1, 2004... As the Jewish semisepcentennial, the 350th anniversary of the arrival of Jews in New Amsterdam approached, Jewish community leaders and historians examined earlier anniversary celebrations to see how they were commemorated. Some of the...
Biblical Interpretation and Middle East Policy: The Promised Land, America, and Israel, 1917-2002.(Book review)
December 1, 2004... Biblical Interpretation and Middle East Policy: The Promised Land, America, and Israel, 1917-2002. By Irvine H. Anderson. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. x + 187 pp.
Biblical Interpretation and Middle East Policy is offered...
American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957-1965.(Book review)
December 1, 2004... American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957-1965. By Kirsten Fermaglich. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2006. xii + 252 pp.
This interesting book focuses on the intellectual...
Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South.(Book review)
December 1, 2004... Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South. By Marcie Cohen Ferris. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xii + 327 pp.
Rich, complex, subtle, and satisfying are all words that might aptly be applied to the...
Ha-Mesoret Ha-Mishpatit ve-Ha-Zionit shel Louis D. Brandeis. [The Legal and Zionist Tradition of Louis D. Brandeis, in Hebrew].(Book review)
December 1, 2004... Ha-Mesoret Ha-Mishpatit ve-Ha-Zionit shel Louis D. Brandeis. [The Legal and Zionist Tradition of Louis D. Brandeis, in Hebrew]. Edited by Allon Gal. Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2005.
This eighty-six page book,...
Hebrew Printing in America 1735-1926: A History and Annotated Bibliography.(Book review)
December 1, 2004... Hebrew Printing in America 1735-1926: A History and Annotated Bibliography. By Yosef Goldman. Research and Editing by Ari Kinsberg. Brooklyn: YG Books, 2006. 2 vols. xxvii + 1188 pp.
For his eightieth birthday, in 1926, the Hebrew writer...
Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America.(Book review)
December 1, 2004... Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America. By Matthew Frye Jacobson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. 482 pp.
This ambitious work demonstrates Professor Jacobson's grasp of a considerable volume of recent...
Jews and Gentiles in Early America: 1654-1800.(Book review)
December 1, 2004... Jews and Gentiles in Early America: 1654-1800. By William Pencak. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. xiv + 321 pp.
In this well written and researched history of the formative years of Jewish colonial and Federal period contact...
Hadassah and the Zionist Project.(Book review)
December 1, 2004... Hadassah and the Zionist Project. By Erica B. Simmons. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. x + 241 pp.
Erica B. Simmons's Hadassah and the Zionist Project is the first comprehensive look at an important American women's organization...
Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960.(Book review)
December 1, 2004... Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960. By Judith E. Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xiv + 444 PP.
Since the house of Atreus, the family has been central to Western drama;...
Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews.(Book review)
December 1, 2004... Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews. By Stephen Spector. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xv + 279 PP.
Stephen Spector has produced a meticulous, well-written account of the events leading up to and including...
Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature.(Book review)
December 1, 2004... Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature. By Hana Wirth-Nesher. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xv + 224 pp.
Hana Wirth-Nesher's 1990 essay "Between Mother Tongue and Native Language: Multilingualism in...