American Jewish History articles from March 2004

American Jewish History archives from March 2004

Going East: the impact of American Yiddish plays and players on the Yiddish stage in Czarist Russia, 1890-1914.
March 1, 2004... The trajectory of Yiddish theater in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries tends to be regarded as a one-way street from Eastern Europe to the New World. Indeed, the expansion of the world map of Yiddish theater closely resembles...

Still life: Sephardi, Ashkenazi, and West African art and form in Suriname's Jewish cemeteries.
March 1, 2004... Introduction: The Iconography of Tombstones Tombstones represent a recently recognized yet still largely neglected source for unraveling the historical past. Cemetery and gravestone study is "increasingly multi-disciplinary, involving the...

"The Little Fuehrer Invades Los Angeles": the emergence of a black-Jewish coalition after World War II.
March 1, 2004... The preponderance of the literature exploring the history of black-Jewish relations focuses on New York City. Indeed, an overwhelming number of the writers who have examined relations between the two groups do not acknowledge that their...

Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor. By Daniel E. Bender. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. x + 272. pp. For Daniel Bender, the identification of--and opposition to--sweatshops in the...

Through the Sands of Time: A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.(Jews of the Dutch Caribbean: Exploring Ethnic Identity in Curacao)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Through the Sands of Time: A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. By Judah M. Cohen. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 2004. xxvi + 298 pp. Jews of the Dutch Caribbean:...

The Jews of the United States, 1645 to 2000.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Jews of the United States, 1645 to 2000. By Hasia Diner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. x + 437 PP In 2004 there were many celebrations of the 350th anniversary of the Jewish presence in North America. Some involved a...

An American Orthodox Dreamer: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Boston's Maimonides School.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... An American Orthodox Dreamer. Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Boston's Maimonides School. By Seth Farber. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press in Association with The Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Institute, 2004. xvii + 201 pp. Most...

Double or Nothing?: Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Double or Nothing?: Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage. By Sylvia Barack Fishman. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 2004. 196 pp. Quantitative research through the first two-thirds of the twentieth...

Caught in the Middle East: U.S. Policy Toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1945-1961.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Caught in the Middle East: U.S. Policy Toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1945-1961. By Peter L. Hahn. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xii + 398 pp. On the eve of Israeli independence, Chaim Weizmann, the man who...

Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century. By Andrew R. Heinze. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xvi + 438. Andrew Heinze's study of psychology and the Jews is a major contribution to American Jewish...

California Jews.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... California Jews. Edited by Ava F. Kahn and Marc Dollinger. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 2003. xviii-196 pp. This interesting collection of thirteen popular essays and a brilliant foreword by Moses...

Key Texts in American Jewish Culture.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Key Texts in American Jewish Culture. Edited by Jack Kugelmass. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003. 308 pp. In Reading Myself and Others (1975), Philip Roth says that the twentieth century was full of "very strongly held...

America and Zion, Essays and Papers in Memory of Moshe Davis.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... America and Zion, Essays and Papers in Memory of Moshe Davis. Edited by Eli Lederhendler and Jonathan Sarna, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002. 286 pp. This volume includes an impressive array of topics and methods that represent...

Mystics, Mavericks and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey among Hasidic Girls.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Mystics, Mavericks and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey among Hasidic Girls. By Stephanie Wellen Levine. New York: New York University Press, 2003. XIV + 255 pp. For those familiar with the Lubavitch branch of Hasidism, "770" is shorthand...

GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation. By Deborah Dash Moore. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. xiv + 352 pp. GI Jews follows the war-era experiences--from call-up or join up, through training, into the armed struggle,...

And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank. By Steve Oney. New York: Pantheon Books, 2003. 715 PP. Philip Roth's latest novel attests to the enduring resonance of the lynching of Leo Frank for American...

How Goodly Are Thy Tents: Summer Camps as Jewish Socializing Experiences.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... "How Goodly Are Thy Tents": Summer Camps as Jewish Socializing Experiences. By Amy L. Sales and Leonard Saxe. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 2004. 224 pp. Like many other Jewish children I knew, I...

American Judaism: A History.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... American Judaism: A History. By Jonathan D. Sarna. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xx + 490 PP. Jonathan Sarna's graceful synthesis will calm the nerves not only of those who fear the demise of the Jewish faith through...

The Jewish 1960s: An American Sourcebook.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Jewish 1960s: An American Sourcebook. Edited by Michael E. Staub. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2004. xxiii + 371 pp. Michael E. Staub opens his impressive edited collection of primary sources, The Jewish 1960s, by asserting,...