American Jewish History articles from March 1998

American Jewish History archives from March 1998

A tale of two critics.
March 1, 1998... How can the study of history be enlisted to explore the possibilities of an authentically Jewish collective life in the United States? Here was a society that was Christian though the state itself was not, a refuge where the contours of freedom...

Transformation through crisis: the American Jewish committee and the Six-Day War.
March 1, 1998... "As soon as the Arab armies began to mass on the borders of Israel," wrote Arthur Hertzberg immediately after the Six-Day War of June 1967, "the mood of the American Jewish community underwent an abrupt, radical, and possibly permanent change......

Becoming Southern: the Jews of Savannah, Georgia, 1830-70.
March 1, 1998... A growing interest in multiculturalism and diversity in American society has prompted an outpouring of scholarship during the last few decades on the history of immigrant and ethnic groups, but relatively few studies have focused upon immigrants...

In God we trust: salaries and income of American Orthodox rabbis, 1881-1934.
March 1, 1998... In a letter dated July 16, 1920, to M. B. Friedman, one of the leaders of Cleveland's Jewish community, Cyrus Adler wrote: The scarcity of rabbis is part of the general scarcity of teachers and professors. Men have drifted away from...

Abba Hillel Silver: A Profile in American Judaism.
March 1, 1998... Recent Trends in the Historiography of American Zionism "In his lifetime, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver was among the giants in Jewish life," note Mark Raider, Jonathan Sarna and Ronald Zweig in their introduction to Abba Hillel Silver and...