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American Jewish History archives from December 2007
"May a freethinker help a pious man?": the shared world of the "religious" and the "secular" among eastern European Jewish immigrants to America.(Essay)
December 1, 2007... Beginning in 1902, the Forverts (Jewish Daily Forward), already well on its way to becoming the most widely-read Yiddish newspaper in New York, debuted a series of debates that provided conflicting perspectives on serious as well as frivolous...
American Jews and the ambivalence of middle-classness.(Essay)
December 1, 2007... Class in the United States may be one of the hardest things to determine, and yet one of the most determinant forces. While this has not always been the case, it has increasingly been so since the end of the Second World War, when a mix of...
From the "Jerusalem of the Balkans" to the goldene medina: Jewish immigration from Salonika to the United States.(Salonika, Greece)(Essay)
December 1, 2007... Who are these strangers who can be seen in the ghetto of the East Side, sitting outside of coffee-houses smoking strange-looking waterpipes, sipping a dark liquid from tiny cups and playing a game of checkers and dice, a game that we are not...
Jewish Art in America: An Introduction.(Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists)(Book review)
December 1, 2007... Jewish Art in America: An Introduction. By Matthew Baigell. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. xxiv + 253 pp.
Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists. By Samantha Baskind. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. xvii + 323 pp.
Two new...
The "Bergson Boys" and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy.(Book review)
December 1, 2007... The "Bergson Boys" and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy. By Judith Tydor Baumel. Translated from the Hebrew by Dena Ordan. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005. xxx + 331.
Judith Tydor Baumel, a historian at Bar Ilan...
American Talmud: The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction.(Book review)
December 1, 2007... American Talmud: The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction. By Ezra Cappell. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2007. x + 233 pp.
After decades of critical argument about the place of Jewish American fiction in the larger...
"Silent No More": Saving the Jews of Russia, The American Jewish Effort, 1967-1989.(Book review)
December 1, 2007... "Silent No More": Saving the Jews of Russia, The American Jewish Effort, 1967-1989. By Henry L. Feingold. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007. ix + 400 pp.
This book is about both an important era in American Jewish history and a...
Inventing Great Neck: Jewish Identity and the American Dream.(Book review)
December 1, 2007... Inventing Great Neck: Jewish Identity and the American Dream. By Judith S. Goldstein. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. ix + 205 pp.
In Inventing Great Neck: Jewish Identity and the American Dream, Judith Goldstein explores...
Sliding to the Right: The Contest for the Future of American Jewish Orthodoxy.(Book review)
December 1, 2007... Sliding to the Right: The Contest for the Future of American Jewish Orthodoxy. By Samuel C. Heilman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. ix + 363 pp.
The changing character and direction of Orthodox Judaism in America is a...
Wives without Husbands: Marriage, Desertion, & Welfare in New York, 1900-1935.(Company overview)
December 1, 2007... Wives without Husbands: Marriage, Desertion, & Welfare in New York, 1900-1935. By Anna Igra. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. viii + 175 PP.
Wives without Husbands brings flesh and original scholarship to a previously...
Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship.(Book review)
December 1, 2007... Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship. Edited by Jack Kugelmass. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. vi + 232 pp.
Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship, edited by Jack Kugelmass, collects ten articles from a conference on...
America and the Return of Nazi Contraband: The Recovery of Europe's Cultural Treasures.(Book review)
December 1, 2007... America and the Return of Nazi Contraband: The Recovery of Europe's Cultural Treasures. By Michael J. Kurtz. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. x + 278 pp.
Plundering the spoils of war has a long history, while principles...
Eye on Israel: How America Came to View Israel as an Ally.(Book review)
December 1, 2007... Eye on Israel: How America Came to View Israel as an Ally. By Michelle Mart. Albany: State University of New York, 2006. xiv + 242 pp.
Michelle Mart's Eye on Israel is an intelligent and historically grounded study of the image of Israel in...
Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer.(Book review)
December 1, 2007... Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer. By C. S. Monaco. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. xi + 240 pp.
Recently American and American Jewish scholars have called for a reexamination in how they...
Let Us Prove Strong: The American Jewish Committee, 1945-2006.(Book review)
December 1, 2007... Let Us Prove Strong: The American Jewish Committee, 1945-2006. By Marianne R. Sanua. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 2007. xvi + 495 PP.
Let Us Prove Strong was commissioned by the American Jewish...