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American Jewish History archives from March 1997
Memory as identity: the invention of the Lower East Side.
March 1, 1997... In 1927, the Jewish Daily Forward, America's leading Yiddish newspaper, celebrated its thirtieth anniversary with a retrospective of Jewish life on the Lower East Side. As the newspaper measured its own progress and marked the growth of the...
'Different blood flows in our veins': race and Jewish self-definition in late nineteenth century America.
March 1, 1997... In the modern world Jews have been preoccupied with finding proper terms to describe their Jewishness. During the centuries when they were isolated from social contact with gentiles they had Me reason to reflect on the nature of Jewish identity....
Horace M. Kallen: pluralism and American Jewish identity.
March 1, 1997... In 1915, Horace M. Kallen, the son of an immigrant rabbi and a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, entered the intense public debate over immigration. He published in the prestigious journal, The Nation, an essay titled...
The Menorah idea: from religion to culture, from race to ethnicity.
March 1, 1997... While American Jews had organized ethnic institutions as early as the second decade of the nineteenth century, they had no concept of ethnicity with which to accompany those institutions. The idea of ethnicity, as it is understood today, did not...
Search out the Land: The Jews and the Growth of Equality in British Colonial America, 1740-1867.
March 1, 1997... By Sheldon J. Godfrey and Judith C. Godfrey. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. pp. 396.
In this handsomely produced volume, the Godfreys explore the role of Jews in the British colonies of Nova Scotia, Quebec...
Blackface, White Noise: Jewish American Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot.
March 1, 1997... By Michael Rogin, Berkeley: University of California Press, 19??. 000 P. $00.00.
Michael Rogin has produced an important book focusing on the relationship between Jewish movie makers and blackface imagery from 1927 to 1950 Professor Rogin,...