American Jewish History articles from June 2007

American Jewish History archives from June 2007

Introduction.(Editorial)
June 1, 2007... On June 5, 2006, more than a hundred scholars arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, for the seventh Biennial Scholars' Conference on American Jewish History, sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Jewish Archives,...

Regionalism: the significance of place in American Jewish life.(Roundtable)(Viewpoint essay)
June 1, 2007... "For as Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation." --Captain John Smith, 1624 (1) The following is a transcript of a roundtable session...

Tevye on king street: Charleston and the translation of Sholem Aleichem.
June 1, 2007... Of the green, equatorial jungles, lakes full of noises and blue skies. At eleven in the evening we came into Charleston --Frania Mazo, December 1922 (1) In June 1946, barely a year after the end of the war in Europe, Crown Publishers...

The 1794 Synagogue of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim of Charleston: reconstructed and reconsidered.
June 1, 2007... On September 19, 1794, the last Shabbat before Rosh Hashanah, Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (KKBE) dedicated its new synagogue in Charleston, South Carolina. Governor William Moultrie, along with "the lieutenant-governor, the civil and military...

Tongue ties: the emergence of the Anglophone Jewish diaspora in the mid-nineteenth century *.
June 1, 2007... Neither Rebecca Gratz nor Isaac Leeser ever traveled to the dusty town of Geelong in Victoria, Australia. But their ideas did. (1) Geelong was certainly no center of Australian Jewish life: the community mushroomed from 11 Jews in 1848 to 128...

Whistling "Dixie" while humming "Ha-Tikvah": acculturation and activism among Orthodox Jews in Fort Worth.
June 1, 2007... Fort Worth's Jewish history is a tale of two congregations--in common parlance, a "temple" and a "shul." At the shul, Ahavath Sholom, a traditional congregation dating to 1892, men and women sat separately, worshipers davened in Hebrew, and...

Presentation of the Lee Max Friedman medal to Gerald Sorin *.
June 1, 2007... The following remarks by Deborah Dash Moore, Chair of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society, were made on June 5, 2006, at the Biennial Scholars' Conference on American Jewish History in Charleston, South Carolina: ...

Christians and Zionism.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Cross on the Star of David: The Christian World in Israel's Foreign Policy, 1948-1967. By Uri Bialer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xiv + 240 pp. The Vatican-Israel Accords: Political, Legal, and Theological Contexts. Edited...

Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History.(Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History. Edited by Mark K. Bauman. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006.480 pp. Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History. Edited by Marcie Cohen Ferris and Mark I. Greenberg....

To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico. By Stanley M. Hordes. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xxi + 348 pp. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, thousands of Jews in the Iberian peninsula...

The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. By Jerome Karabel. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. viii + 711 pp. A skeptical professor once asked if archival materials existed to document the...

First Contact: Origins of the American-Israeli Connection, Halutzim from America during the Palestine Mandate.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... First Contact: Origins of the American-Israeli Connection, Halutzim from America during the Palestine Mandate. By Matthew Silver. West Hartford: The Graduate Group, 2006. 386 pp. A welcome addition to the history of American Jews in the...

Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History. By Deborah R. Weiner. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. viii + 234. Representations of Appalachia make it difficult to imagine Appalachia as anything other than a culturally and ethnically...