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American Jewish History archives from March 2007
To the readers.
March 1, 2007... With this issue of American Jewish History, we recognize the service of the two dedicated editors who have shepherded the journal over the last five years and who are now completing their terms.
As editor since 2002, Eli Faber, Professor of...
The new filiopietism, or toward a new history of Jewish immigration to America *.
March 1, 2007... Pioneered by such mid-twentieth-century historians and social scientists as Rudolf Glanz, Jacob Lestchinsky, Elias Tcherikower, Oscar Handlin, and Moses Rischin, by economists Arcadius Kahan and Simon Kuznets, and memorably enshrined in the...
"Hitler's bitterest foe": Samuel Untermyer and the boycott of Nazi Germany, 1933-1938 *.
March 1, 2007... In the early summer of 1933, photographer Berenice Abbott attempted to raise $15,000 from one hundred prominent New Yorkers to fund a documentary interpretation of New York City in photographs. Given this was in the depth of the Great...
My fair Sadie: Allan Sherman and a paradox of American Jewish culture.
March 1, 2007... In a 1993 essay entitled The Paradoxes of American Jewish Culture, Stephen J. Whitfield found no shortage of them, including the following: "[The] American Jewish subculture looks drab in the light of an American culture that Jews have helped...
Remarks by President George W. Bush at the national dinner celebrating 350 years of Jewish life in America.(Document)
March 1, 2007... A national dinner, marking the conclusion of the year-long celebration of the 350th anniversary of Jewish settlement in North America, was held on September 14, 2005, at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. The dinner was jointly...
American Jewish studies: a periodic report of the status of the field.(Chronology)
March 1, 2007... Recent Dissertations in American Jewish Studies (Continued from American Jewish History, Vol. 89, No.3)
2005
1. Assif, Maria. Mother-Daughter Relationships in Asian and Jewish American Literatures. (Case Western Reserve University)
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In memoriam: Saul Viener, 1921-2006.(founder of Southern Jewish Historical Society)(In memoriam)
March 1, 2007... On February 21, 1954, a distinguished group of scholars and laypeople gathered at Dropsie College in downtown Philadelphia for the fifty-second annual meeting of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS). As luminaries such as Salo W. Baron...
From Exodus to Freedom: A History of the Soviet Jewry Movement.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... From Exodus to Freedom: A History of the Soviet Jewry Movement. By Stuart Altshuler. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. xv + 213 pp.
The title of the book suggests an in-depth account of the Soviet Jewry movement in the United States...
Over the Top Judaism: Precedents and Trends in the Depiction of Jewish Beliefs and Observances in Film and Television.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Over the Top Judaism: Precedents and Trends in the Depiction of Jewish Beliefs and Observances in Film and Television. By Elliot B. Gertel. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2003. xv + 299 pp.
To many scholars at the end of...
The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity. By Eric L. Goldstein. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xii + 307 pp.
Eric L. Goldstein's book should be among the very first stops for those wishing to approach the...
The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism. Edited by Dana Evan Kaplan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.462 pp.
Beginning with three chronological essays covering 1654-1880, 1880-1945, and 1945 "to the present," and continuing...
In Their Own Image: New York Jews in Jazz Age Popular Culture.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... In Their Own Image: New York Jews in Jazz Age Popular Culture. By Ted Merwin. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006. xiii + 215 pp.
Ted Merwin is a scholar of Judaic Studies and a theater critic for the popular press. His...
Connections and Collisions: Identities in Contemporary Jewish-American Women's Writing.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Connections and Collisions: Identities in Contemporary Jewish-American Women's Writing. Edited by Lois E. Rubin. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005. 260 pp.
There was a time, not long ago, when the American Jewish literary canon...
Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews, and the 1991 Brooklyn Riot.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews, and the 1991 Brooklyn Riot. By Edward Shapiro. Lebanon, NH: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 2006. xviii + 252 pp.
Significant events like riots are not only part of history, they...
In Every Tongue: The Racial & Ethnic Diversity of the Jewish People.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... In Every Tongue: The Racial & Ethnic Diversity of the Jewish People. By Diane Tobin, Gary A. Tobin, and Scott Rubin. San Francisco: Institute for Jewish & Community Research, 2005. 251 pp.
A recurrent discussion in Israel and among the...