American Jewish History articles from June 2000

American Jewish History archives from June 2000

Brownstones and Brownsville: Elite Philanthropists and Immigrant Constituents at the Hebrew Educational Society of Brooklyn, 1899-1929.(Review)
June 1, 2000... For more than six decades after its founding in 1899 the Hebrew Educational Society of Brooklyn (HES) served the densely populated Jewish immigrant neighborhood of Brownsville as a multipurpose community center. It offered its local...

"Our Alien Neighbors": Coping with the Depression on the Lower East Side.
June 1, 2000... "Our Alien Neighbors" and Citizenship By the mid-1990's, following the fall of Communism, American politicians began to focus more and more on perceived internal threats to civil order. Immigrants have often been easy targets for fears of...

Angels "Rewolt!": Jewish Women in Modern Dance in the 1930s.
June 1, 2000... In the late 1920s the modern dancer and choreographer Doris Humphrey noted that the "piles of Jewish girls" in her company "moved like angels."(1) Dancing in such works as Martha Graham's "Heretic" (1929) and Humphrey's "Life of the Bee"...

"If I am not for myself ... ": The American Jewish Establishment in the Aftermath of the Six Day War.
June 1, 2000... "Has the Six-Day War produced a change in my weltanschauung?" mused Elie Wiesel in early 1968. "I would go even further and say that the change was total, for it involved my very being as both a person and as a Jew." The celebrated writer...

Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Baltimore Clothing Industry, 1899-1939.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Baltimore Clothing Industry, 1899-1939. By Jo Ann E. Argersinger. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. x + 219 pp. In Making the Amalgamated: Grender, Ethnicity, and...

The Death of American Antisemitism.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Death of American Antisemitism. By Spencer Blakeslee. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. xviii + 277 pp. The Death of American Antisemitism is a powerful and eloquent declaration about the virtual disappearance of anti-Semitism in American...

Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism. Edited by Yvonne Chireau and Nathaniel Deutsch. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xii + 241 pp. This interesting collection of essays explores "shared elements in black...

Women of Courage: Jewish and Italian Immigrant Women in New York.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Women of Courage: Jewish and Italian Immigrant Women in New York. By Rose Laub Coser, Laura S. Anker, and Andrew J. Perrin. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. x + 162 pp. For at least two decades feminist researchers of Jewish and Italian...

Jews in America, A Contemporary Reader.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Jews in America, A Contemporary Reader. Edited by Roberta Rosenberg Farber and Chaim I. Waxman. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 1999. xi + 425 pp. Following the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey (NJPS 1990), social scientists...

Jewries at the Frontier, Accommodation, Identity and Conflict.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Jewries at the Frontier, Accommodation, Identity and Conflict, Edited by Sander Gilman and Milton Shain. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. 401 pp. This large collection of essays from a conference held in South Africa...

Shul with a Pool: The "Synagogue-Center" in American Jewish History.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Shul with a Pool: The "Synagogue-Center" in American Jewish History. By David Kaufman. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 1999. xx + 329 pp. Mordecai Kaplan is often thought of as the originator of the...

Yiddish Proletarian Theatre: The Art and Politics of the Artef, 1925-1940.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Yiddish Proletarian Theatre: The Art and Politics of the Artef, 1925-1940. By Edna Nahshon. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. xv + 260 pp. The history of theater in America in the first half of the twentieth century is inextricably...

Visions of Reform: Congregation Emanu-El and the Jews of San Francisco, 1849-1999.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Visions of Reform: Congregation Emanu-El and the Jews of San Francisco, 1849-1999. By Fred Rosenbaum. Berkeley, CA: Judah L. Magnes Museum, 2000. xviii + 534 pp. This book is, in the words of its author, "an updated, revised, and much...

Kibbutzniks in the Diaspora.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Kibbutzniks in the Diaspora. By Naama Sabar. Translated from the Hebrew by Chaya Naor. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. xii + 189 pp. The author, an Israeli professor of education, spent a sabbatical year in California and...

The Fighting Rabbis: Jewish Military Chaplains and American History.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Fighting Rabbis: Jewish Military Chaplains and American History. By Albert Isaac Slomovitz. New York: New York University Press, 1999. xiii + 171 pp. In 1916, the Prussian Ministry of War issued an extraordinary command. It ordered...

Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939. By Daniel Soyer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. 291 pp. I cannot imagine my parents' lives without the New Cracow Friendship Society, a landsmanshaft...

Pound In Purgatory: From Economic Radicalism to Anti-Semitism.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Pound In Purgatory: From Economic Radicalism to Anti-Semitism. By Leon Surette. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xii + 314 pp. Leon Surette's most recent book on Ezra Pound is an important contribution to Pound...

A Global Community: The Jews from Aleppo, Syria.(Review)
June 1, 2000... A Global Community: The Jews from Aleppo, Syria. By Walter P. Zenner. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000. 233 pp. Walter P. Zenner has been doing research on Syrian Jews for the past four decades. His dissertation on the subject...

Strife in the Sanctuary: Religious Schism in a Jewish Community.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Strife in the Sanctuary: Religious Schism in a Jewish Community. By Phil Zuckerman. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1999. 262 pp. Students of American Jewish history will recall two significant synagogue schisms in the nascent American...