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American Jewish History archives from June 1997
The unbearable whiteness of being Jewish: desegregation in the South and the crisis of Jewish liberalism.
June 1, 1997... Since the early 1970s the relationship between blacks and Jews has been the subject of a substantial amount of scholarly attention, not least because of the conflicts between the two groups which came to the surface in the 1960s.(1) During this...
Far from where? On the history and meanings of a classic Jewish refugee joke.
June 1, 1997... Three weary Jewish refugees stood before the Paris representative of the
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
"Where are you all going?" he asked them.
"I'm on my way to Rome," said the first.
"London is my...
The Holy Land appropriated: the careers of Selah Merrill, nineteenth century Christian Hebraist, Palestine explorer, and U.S. consul in Jerusalem.
June 1, 1997... I. Selah Merrill and the Jews of Palestine
"The Jew needs to learn that his place in the world will be determined by what he can do for himself, and not so much by what Abraham did for himself four thousand years ago. It has a most...
Jacob Rader Marcus: historian-archivist of Jewish Middle America.
June 1, 1997... This I Believe: Documents of American Jewish Life. Edited by Jacob R. Marcus. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson Inc., 1990. xxi +277 pp.
To Count a People: American Jewish Population Data, 1585-1984. By Jacob R. Marcus. Lanham, MD:...
American Jewish Orthodoxy in Historical Perspective.
June 1, 1997... Jeffrey Gurock. Hoboken: Ktav Publishing House, Inc. 1996. pp. 457.
In American Jewish Orthodoxy in Historical Perspective, Jeffrey Gurock, a professor at Yeshiva University, makes an important contribution to the study of American Judaism...
To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L.A.
June 1, 1997... By Deborah Dash Moore, New York: The Free Press, 1994. Pp. x, 358. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $22.95.
Deborah Dash Moore presents a bold, complex, and many-layered thesis in this book. In the decades after World War II, she...
Never Too Late to Remember: The Politics Behind New York City's Holocaust Museum.
June 1, 1997... By Rochelle G. Saidel. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1996. pp. 289.
This account of how the effort to create a Holocaust museum in New York City has been repeatedly sabotaged by personal agendas is motivated by the author's belief that only a...