American Jewish History articles from June 2001

American Jewish History archives from June 2001

Jewish problems: eastern and western Jewish identities in conflict at the University of Wisconsin, 1919-1941.
June 1, 2001... Jews in the South and West, who often suffer less discrimination in their communities, often resent the East Side Jew... "New York Jew" on the outside is no term of flattery. (1) In September, 1929, Mildred Gordon, a Chicagoan beginning...

Christianity through reform eyes: Kaufmann Kohler's scholarship on Christianity.
June 1, 2001... In the early twentieth century, Kaufmann Kohler, one of the outstanding leaders of Reform Judaism in America, wrote a series of articles on Christianity for the Jewish Encyclopedia. Using the opportunity to present his views, he wished to...

Reproach, recognition and respect: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Orthodoxy's mid-century attitude toward non-Orthodox denominations.
June 1, 2001... Introduction On June 12, 1954, the congregation of Temple Bnai Moshe in Brighton, Massachusetts celebrated the opening of their new sanctuary on Commonwealth Avenue with a dedication dinner. Almost all of Boston's Jewish leadership...

Longings and renunciations: attitudes towards intermarriage in early twentieth century Jewish American novels.
June 1, 2001... For Jewish American authors at the beginning of the twentieth century, intermarriage represented all of the potential joys and dangers of complete entrance into American culture. With the cultural restrictions of the Old World substantially...

Lower East Side Memories. A Jewish Place in America. (Review essay: mingling past and present on the Lower East Side: three recent views).
June 1, 2001... Lower East Side Memories. A Jewish Place in America. By Hasia R. Diner. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000. xiii + 219 pp. American Jewish (and some well-known non-Jewish) writers, memoirists, scholars, photographers,...

Remembering the Lower East Side. American Jewish Reflections. (Review essay: mingling past and present on the Lower East Side: three recent views).
June 1, 2001... Remembering the Lower East Side. American Jewish Reflections. Edited by Hasia R. Diner, Jeffrey Shandler, and Beth S. Wenger. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000. vii + 291 pp. American Jewish (and some well-known...

Selling the Lower East Side. Culture, Real State, and Resistance in New York City. (Review essay: mingling past and present on the Lower East Side: three recent views).
June 1, 2001... Selling the Lower East Side. Culture, Real Estate, and Resistance in New York City. By Christopher Mele. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. xvi + 361 pp. American Jewish (and some well-known non-Jewish) writers,...

Strangers and Neighbors: Relations Between Blacks and Jews in the United States. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2001... Strangers and Neighbors: Relations Between Blacks and Jews in the United States. Edited by Maurianne Adams and John Bracey. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. v + 852 pp. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the American...

Are We One?: Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2001... Are We One?: Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel. By Jerold S. Auerbach. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2001. 248 pp. Jerold Auerbach is a distinguished historian. An earlier book Rabbis and Lawyers reflects not...

The Politics and Public Culture of American Jews. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2001... The Politics and Public Culture of American Jews. By Arthur A. Goren. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999. xi + 274 pp. In recent years an increasing number of commentators have argued that American Jewry is experiencing an...

The Enduring Community: The Jews of Newark and Metrowest. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2001... The Enduring Community: The Jews of Newark and Metrowest. By William B. Helmreich. New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Transaction Publishers, 2000. 374 pp. Many immigrant Jews leaving Ellis Island for life in America took the ferry not...

The Identity Question: Blacks and Jews in Europe and America. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2001... The Identity Question: Blacks and Jews in Europe and America. By Robert Philipson. Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. xxi + 254 pp. Robert Philipson states in his introduction that his objective in this volume is not a...

Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2001... Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement. By Debra L. Schultz. New York: New York University Press, 2000. v + 221 pp. What does it mean to be Jewish? How is Jewish identity integrated with social activism? How have Jewish...

Letter to the editor.(Review)
June 1, 2001... To the Editor: Joseph P. Ansell dramatizes the vital contribution of a unique artist in his "Arthur Szyk's Depictions of the `New Jew': Art as a Weapon in the Campaign for an American Response tot he Holocaust." He does so in your March...