American Jewish History articles from June 2003

American Jewish History archives from June 2003

The question of music in American Judaism: reflections at 350 years *.(Essays)
June 1, 2003... Clamorous debates over music have been a feature of American Judaism since at least the beginning of the nineteenth century. Indeed, questions concerning music in the synagogue have stood second only to questions concerning women in the...

"The comfortable concentration camp": the significance of Nazi imagery in Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963).(Critical Essay)
June 1, 2003... In one of the most shocking passages of her 1963 feminist classic, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan claimed that "the women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who...

Marauding youth and the Christian front: antisemitic violence in Boston and New York during World War II.
June 1, 2003... In October 1943, the New York newspaper PM declared that bands of Irish Catholic youths, inspired by the Coughlinite Christian Front, had for over a year waged an "organized campaign of terrorism" against Jews in Boston's Dorchester district...

Enforcement of the Sunday closing laws on the lower east side, 1882-1903.
June 1, 2003... On Sunday, December 3, 1882, a day described by the New York Times as one "long to be remembered in the history of this City," (1) New York's finest took to the streets and with great zeal arrested 137 persons for various violations of the...

"Resistance and War": the Holocaust in American Jewish Education, 1945-1960.
June 1, 2003... In The World Over Storybook, a textbook published in 1952 and used widely in American Jewish schools throughout the early postwar period, Reuben Davis recounted the Jewish experience under Nazism in a story entitled "Hannah Szenes, She Fought...

Nineteenth-century Caribbean circumcisions: an analysis of the journal of births and circumcisions performed by Moises Frois Ricardo.
June 1, 2003... During April and May of 2002, a journal of circumcisions performed by Moises Frois Ricardo, a Sephardic Jew, was displayed in an exhibit sponsored by the Museo Sefardi of Caracas, Venezuela. The original manuscript, entitled "Record of Birth...

Making the Bible Modern: Children's Bibles and Jewish Education in Twentieth-Century America.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Making the Bible Modern: Children's Bibles and Jewish Education in twentieth-Century America. By Penny Schine Gold. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. 269 pp. The history of American Jewish education has long been neglected by...

Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture. By Mark Oppenheimer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. ix + 284 pp. Revisiting the 1960s has become both an academic industry and a parlor game. Despite an...

The Education of Jews and the American Community: 1840 to the New Millennium.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... The Education of Jews and the American Community: 1840 to the New Millennium. By Eduardo Rauch. Tel Aviv: The Jaime and Joan Constantiner School of Education--Tel Aviv University, 2004. iii + 486 pp. Scholars have described the adjustment...

Inside A Class Action: the Holocaust and the Swiss Banks.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Inside A Class Action: The Holocaust and the Swiss Banks. By Jane Schapiro. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press/Terrace Books, 2003. xii + 292 pp. In recent years we have witnessed several major attempts to gain financial...

Entertaining America; Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Entertaining America; Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting. By J. Hoberman and Jeffrey Shandler. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. 334 PP. The Jews of Prime Time. By David Zurawik. Hanover, New Hampshire: Brandeis University...