American Jewish History articles from June 1999

American Jewish History archives from June 1999

Opening the Discussion of American Jewish Political Conservatism.
June 1, 1999... It is a truism that American Jews are prototypical liberals. Jewish voting patterns and a considerable body of historical as well as popular literature supports this wider understanding.(1) There is little reason to challenge this view Even...

AMERICAN JEWISH POLITICAL CONSERVATISM IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE.
June 1, 1999... "Jews are by nature conservative," the American-trained British chief rabbi, Joseph H. Hertz, writes in his prayer book, completed during World War II. Hertz explains that "loyalty to the State is ingrained in the Jewish character," and that...

Forgotten Godfathers: Premature Jewish Conservatives and the Rise of National Review.
June 1, 1999... I For historians of the ideologically riven twentieth century the migration of writers and artists from Left to Right is a familiar phenomenon. But sometimes those who make it are not familiar, and sometimes their ultimate destination is a...

Commentary, the Public Interest, and the Problem of Jewish Conservatism.
June 1, 1999... Jews are a small, but vocal and active segment of the modern American conservative movement. One measure of their importance to the Right is their ability to support two of conservatism's leading journals, the monthly Commentary and the...

Neocon Memoir.
June 1, 1999... I have been asked to reminisce about becoming a Jewish neoconservative. And given my age and the condition of my memory, it may in fact be the very last reminiscence of this particular neocon. First a word about usage. The word...

Jews and the Conservative Rift.
June 1, 1999... American conservatism was enveloped in a mood of doubt and angst during the 1980s and 1990s precisely at the time when its message had seemingly never resonated more strongly. These two decades saw a worldwide movement liberating markets from...

Letters to the Editor.
June 1, 1999... To: The Editor: We read the article "How Lucky We Were" by David Lyon Hurwitz on camping for Jewish children and were astonished to find that he omitted any mention of the camps run by the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York in the Palisade...

Making a Life, Building a Community: A History of the Jews of Hartford.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Making a Life, Building a Community: A History of the Jews of Hartford. By David G. Dalin and Jonathan Rosenbaum. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1997. 326 pp. Making a Life, Building a Community, written by two former professors at the...

The Soviet Jewish Americans.(Review)
June 1, 1999... The Soviet Jewish Americans. By Annelise Orleck. Photographs by Elizabeth Cooke. The New Americans Series. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. xiv +216 pp. Since the mid-1960s nearly 500,000 Soviet Jews have emigrated to America. Well...

Lest Memory Cease: Finding Meaning in the American Jewish Past.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Lest Memory Cease: Finding Meaning in the American Jewish Past. By Henry Feingold. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1996. x + 226 pp. There has been a long-standing and persistent concern in the United States that Jews, attracted...

Jewish Continuity in American: Creative Survival in a Free Society.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Jewish Continuity in America: Creative Survival in a Free Society. By Abraham J. Karp. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1998. xii + 301 pp. There has been a long-standing and persistent concern in the United States that...

Land and Community: Geography in Jewish Studies (Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture Vol. 3).(Review)
June 1, 1999... Land and Community: Geography in Jewish Studies (Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture, Vol. 3). Edited by Harold Brodsky. Bethesda, MD: University Press of Maryland, 1997. 418 pp.; illus. The richly illustrated Land and Community...

Borscht Belt Bungalows: Memories of Catskill Summers.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Borscht Belt Bungalows: Memories of Catskill Summers. By Irwin Richman. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. vii + 242 pp. It is possible, but highly unlikely, that someday in the far off future there will be no more bungalow...

The Israeli-American Connection: Its Roots in the Yishuv, 1914-1945.(Review)
June 1, 1999... The Israeli-American Connection: Its Roots in the Yishuv, 1914-1945. By Michael Brown. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996. 396 pp. In the introduction to this book Michael Brown very sensibly refrains from engaging in any...

The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn.(Review)
June 1, 1999... The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn. Vol. I, "A Touch of Wildness". By Ralph Melnick. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. 754 pp. Almost anyone interested in Jewish literature has been influenced by the translations, editions, or...

American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party.(Review)
June 1, 1999... American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. By Frederick J. Simonelli. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xi + 206 pp. The attempt to plant Nazi seed on American soil, as unsuccessfully...

Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight. By Eli Faber. New York: New York University Press, 1998. xvii + 366 pp. Faber's book is designed to confront the hysterical, inaccurate, and anti-Semitic canards of The Secret...

The Girls: Jewish Women of Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1940-1995.(Review)
June 1, 1999... The Girls: Jewish Women of Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1940-1995. By Carole Bell Ford. Albany: State University of New York, 2000. xiii + 217 pp. The Girls is a welcome addition to the literature on American Jewish women, especially the small...

A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song.(Review)
June 1, 1999... A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song. By Jeffrey Melnick. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. ix + 277 pp. Jeffrey Melnick's A Right to Sing the Blues is a relentlessly argued volume that...