American Jewish History articles from June 2002

American Jewish History archives from June 2002

To the reader.(new editor Eli Faber)(associate editor Rafael Medoff)
June 1, 2002... In 1982, two younger scholars succeeded Henry Feingold as the new editors of American Jewish History. Marc Lee Raphael, now the Nathan and Sophia Gumenick Professor of Judaic Studies and the chair of the Department of Religion at the College of...

Interpretations of the Crown Heights Riot.(Brooklyn neighborhood with concentrated Lubavitch Hasidic and black populations)
June 1, 2002... The Crown Heights riot of August 1991 was one of the most serious incidents of antisemitism in American history. It took place in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, the worldwide center of the Lubavitch Hasidic movement, and lasted for...

"Something of his own soil": Jewish history, mural painting, and Bernard Zakheim in San Francisco (1).
June 1, 2002... When Franklin Delano Roosevelt agreed to support artists struggling to make a living during the Great Depression, arts administrators in San Francisco received funding for a major mural project in which Jewish artist Bernard Zakheim (1896-1985)...

American Jewish Women in Palestine: Bessie Gotsfeld, Henrietta Szold, and the Zionist Enterprise.(Biography)
June 1, 2002... Most Zionists who settled in Palestine during the period of the British Mandate (1922-1948) emigrated from Europe and western Asia, few from America. Yet, as Michael Brown points out, several individuals from the minimal number who came from...

American Jewish liberalism revisited: two perspectives: exceptionalism and Jewish liberalism. (Point/Counterpoint).
June 1, 2002... Milton Himmelfarb's famous quip that Jews earn like Episcopalians but vote like Puerto Ricans continues to reflect popular understandings of American Jewish political culture. Despite a meteoric rise up the economic ladder, Jews have cast their...

Exile and alienation in America. (Point/Counterpoint).
June 1, 2002... Of Marc Dollinger's many interesting insights into American Jewish political behavior, his most daring may be the following: when American Jews feel directly threatened, as during the Holocaust or when they resided in the segregated South, they...

Neglected areas of American Jewish history at the Feinstein Center for American Jewish history. (In Pursuit of...).
June 1, 2002... The Feinstein Center for American Jewish History was created twelve years ago at Temple University in Philadelphia. Working with consortiums of scholars as well as with individual researchers, the Center seeks to identify and to fill vacuums in...

Zion in the Valley: The Jewish Community of St. Louis.(Book Review)
June 1, 2002... Volume II: The Twentieth Century. By Walter Ehrlich. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2002. xiii + 503 PP. The communal history is probably the most common genre in the literature of American Jewish history. The quality of these...

From New Zion to Old Zion: American Jewish Immigration and Settlement in Palestine, 1917-1939.(Book Review)
June 1, 2002... By Joseph B. Glass. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002. 425 pp. The history of American Zionism teaches that immigration to Eretz Israel was not one of its ideological principles. This is evident in the relatively small number of...

A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and the Promise of America.(Book Review)
June 1, 2002... By Jenna Weissman Joselit. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2001. 257 pp. "Once upon a time," Jenna Weissman Joselit argues in A Perfect Fit, "Americans placed their faith in clothing" (p. 1). Fashion offered men and women in the United...

The Next Generation: Jewish Children and Adolescents.(Book Review)
June 1, 2002... By Ariela Keysar, Barry A. Kosmin, and Jeffrey Scheckner. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. xx + 150 pp. The National Jewish Population Survey (NJPS) of 1990 generated a variety of research studies on special populations and...

The Israel Connection and American Jews.(Book Review)
June 1, 2002... By David Mittelberg. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. xvii + 192 pp. In late 1999, the first of dozens of El Al 747s landed at Ben Gurion Airport carrying North American young adults about to embark on a ten-day educational program in Israel....

Decision On Palestine Deferred: America, Britain, and Wartime Diplomacy, 1939-1945.(Book Review)
June 1, 2002... By Monty Noam Penkower. London: Frank Cass, 2002. xvi + 384 pp. At the November 1943 Tehran Conference, during which the Allied leaders first began to consider seriously the shape of the postwar world, the issue of Palestine did not come...

From Shtetl to Milltown: Litvaks, Hungarians, and Galitzianers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875-1925.(Book Review)
June 1, 2002... By Robert Perlman. Pittsburgh: Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, 2001. 123 pp. Robert Perlman has written a brief, well-researched book illuminating the lives of Jews in small industrial towns surrounding Pittsburgh. His work...

Irreconcilable Differences: the Waning of the American Jewish Love Affair With Israel.(Book Review)
June 1, 2002... By Steven T. Rosenthal. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press/University Press Of New England, 2001. xxii + 231 pp. The provocative subtitle of Steven T. Rosenthal's Irreconcilable Differences: The Waning of the American Jewish Love...

Torn at the Roots: the Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America.(Michael E. Staub.)(Book Review)
June 1, 2002... By Michael E. Staub. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. 386 pp. Not long ago The Forward, America's largest Jewish weekly, carried two items, only a page or two apart, which reflect important contemporary divisions in the...

Letters to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2002... To The Editor: When you choose a reviewer from the ranks of the Political Correctness Police who lives in the precincts of academia, you should at least require him to show some identification and disclose his political agenda and biases...