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American Jewish History archives from June 2004
Hagiography in the diaspora: Golda Meir and her biographers *.
June 1, 2004... As Zeev Jabotinsky wrote, "Everyone writes memoirs; if someone doesn't... it begins to raise doubts.... [But] real memoirs require one to tell 'the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.' This I cannot promise. Memoirs are literary...
Legitimating Nazism: Harvard University and the Hitler regime, 1933-1937.(Adolph Hitler)
June 1, 2004... The Harvard University administration during the 1930s, led by President James Bryant Conant, ignored numerous opportunities to take a principled stand against the Hitler regime and its antisemitic outrages, and contributed to Nazi Germany's...
Leon A. Jick (1924-2005) *.(In Memoriam)(Obituary)
June 1, 2004... The March 2002 issue of American Jewish History featured a spirited symposium entitled "A Fresh Look at a Classic: Leon Jick's The Americanization of the Synagogue, 1820-1870." Now the author of that classic, who was also my teacher and...
Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance. By Warren Bass. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 336 pp.
Warren Bass has written an excellent historical study of America's Middle East foreign...
Something Ain't Kosher Here: The Rise of the "Jewish" Sitcom.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Something Ain't Kosher Here: The Rise of the "Jewish" Sitcom. By Vincent Brook. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003. 225 pp.
Vincent Brook's Something Ain't Kosher Here: The Rise of the "Jewish" Sitcom is, in and of itself,...
The Americanization of Zionism, 1897-1948.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Americanization of Zionism, 1897-1948. By Naomi W. Cohen. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 2003. 304 pp.
Naomi W. Cohen's The Americanization of Zionism, 1897-1948 seeks to demonstrate that...
"Commentary" in American Life.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... "Commentary" in American Life. Edited by Murray Friedman. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005. 226 pp.
Back in the days when he was still indispensable, Woody Allen once quipped that he heard Commentary magazine and Dissent magazine...
An Uneasy Relationship: American Jewish Leadership and Israel, 1948-1957.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... An Uneasy Relationship: American Jewish Leadership and Israel, 1948-1957. By Zvi Ganin. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005. xxi + 255 pages.
This book is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in a thoroughly researched and...
God's Sacred Tongue: Hebrew and the American Imagination.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... God's Sacred Tongue: Hebrew and the American Imagination. By Shalom Goldman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiv + 349 pp.
Shalom Goldman's God's Sacred Tongue describes a bifurcated, often disturbing history of...
Battling for Souls: The Vaad Hatzala Rescue Committee in Post-War Europe.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Battling for Souls: The Vaad Hatzala Rescue Committee in Post-War Europe. By Alex Grobman. Jersey City, NJ: Ktav, 2004. v + 370 pp.
In the field of Holocaust studies, research on Displaced Persons (DP) camps has been, until recently,...
German-Jewish Identities in America.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... German-Jewish Identities in America. Edited by Christof Mauch and Joseph Salmons. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 2003. xii + 171 pp.
A conference on German-Jewish Identities in America, held at the Max Kade...
"The Whole Wide World, Without Limits": International Relief, Gender Politics, and American Jewish Women, 1893-1930.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... "The Whole Wide World, Without Limits": International Relief, Gender Politics, and American Jewish Women, 1893-1930. By Mary McCune. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. xv + 280 pp.
In "The Whole Wide World, Without Limits," author...
Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical. By Andrea Most. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. viii + 253 pp.
In Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical, Andrea Most provocatively--and persuasively--interweaves the...
New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58. By Sherry B. Ortner. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. xvi + 340 pp.
In the interest of probing the hidden dynamic of class in American culture, Sherry Ortner, the eminent...
Migration, Community and Identification: Jews in Late Twentieth-Century America.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Migration, Community and Identification: Jews in Late Twentieth-Century America (in Hebrew). By Uzi Rebhun. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2001. xi + 218 pp.
Advertisements for homes in northern New Jersey typically promise...
From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews. By Ellen M. Umansky. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 245 pp.
While briefly a rabbinical student in Los Angeles in the late 1950s, I was asked to...