American Jewish History articles from March 1 2008

American Jewish History archives from March 1 2008

Introduction.
March 1, 2008... Louis Marshall's life and career illustrate the complexity of the Jewish experience in the turbulent decades that spanned the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Born in 1856, Marshall's meteoric trajectory carried him from provincial upstate...

Two Jewish lawyers named Louis.(Louis Brandeis, Louis Marshall)(Biography)
March 1, 2008... The year 1856 was a vintage year for brilliant Jewish lawyers named Louis. On November 13, 1856, Louis Brandeis was born in Louisville, Kentucky. One month later, on December 14, 1856, Louis Marshall was born in Syracuse, New York. Louis and...

Louis Marshall: an American Jewish Diplomat in Paris, 1919.
March 1, 2008... "I feel grateful to the almighty that be has enabled me to lead in this sacred cause for right, justice, and equality." (1) In the spring and early summer of 1919, Louis Marshall spent three arduous months at the Paris Peace Conference...

Louis Marshall and the democratization of Jewish identity.
March 1, 2008... Louis Marshall is a luminous figure in American Jewish history. The list of Jewish leadership posts he held at various phases of his career, including positions as president of the American Jewish Committee, president of Temple Emanu-El, and...

Confronting antisemitism in America: Louis Marshall and Henry Ford.
March 1, 2008... Louis Marshall served as president of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) from 1912 until his death in 1929. In that capacity, he became the man to whom "all Jewish issues of the time" were referred. (1) He brought to that task both a...

The Aristocrat and the Democrat: Louis Marshall, Stephen S. Wise and the Challenge of American Jewish Leadership.(Essay)
March 1, 2008... Louis Marshall and Stephen S. Wise are, in many ways, a study in contrasts. They were so dissimilar in character, temperament, and even appearance as to seem natural antagonists. Marshall was born in Syracuse, New York, a decade prior to the...

You Never Call! You Never Write!: A History of the Jewish Mother.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... You Never Call! You Never Write!: A History of the Jewish Mother. By Joyce Antler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii + 321 pp. The Jewish mother is a familiar, and stereotyped, figure in literature, theater, comedy, film, and...

Polish-Jewish Relations in North America, volume 19 of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Polish-Jewish Relations in North America, volume 19 of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry. Edited by Mieczyslaw B. Biskupski and Antony Polonsky. Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2007. xvi + 653 pp. This sizeable issue of...

American Judaism in Popular Culture.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... American Judaism in Popular Culture. Edited by Leonard J. Greenspoon and Ronald A. Simkins. Studies in Jewish Civilization Vol. 17. Omaha: Creighton University Press, 2007. xvi + 286 pp. In the recent movie Wedding Daze (dir. Michael Ian...

Covenant of Care: Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in America.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Covenant of Care: Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in America. By Alan M. Kraut and Deborah A. Kraut. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007. vii + 328 pp. Covenant of Care: Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in...

A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. By Karen Pastorello. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xvii + 273 PP. Karen Pastorello's new book is both a throwback and...

I Did It My Way: Women Remaking American Judaism.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... I Did It My Way: Women Remaking American Judaism. Edited by Riv-Ellen Prell. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007. xii + 331 PP. The editor of this collection of essays, Riv-Ellen Prell, characterizes the volume as a product of the...

Russian Jews on Three Continents: Identity, Integration, and Conflict.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Russian Jews on Three Continents: Identity, Integration, and Conflict. By Larissa Remennick. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2007. ix + 408 pp. In three major aspects Larissa Remennick's book successfully fills a gap in the...

Rabbis & Their Community: Studies in the Eastern European Orthodox Rabbinate in Montreal, 1896-1930.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Rabbis & Their Community: Studies in the Eastern European Orthodox Rabbinate in Montreal, 1896-1930. By Ira Robinson. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007. xi + 166 pp. In recent years we evidence a welcome rise in scholarly interest...

Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics. By Maeera Y. Shreiber. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xi + 287 pp. A persistent item on the agenda of American Jewish culture, at least since the publication of Cynthia...

Radio and the Jews: The Untold Story of How Radio Influenced America's Image of Jews, 1920s-1950s.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Radio and the Jews: The Untold Story of How Radio Influenced America's Image of Jews, 1920s-1950s. By David S. Siegel and Susan Siegel. Yorktown Heights, NY: Book Hunter Press, 2007. viii + 283 pp. Numerous scholarly works have examined the...

White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics and the Shaping of Postwar Politics.
March 1, 2008... White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics and the Shaping of Postwar Politics. By Joshua M. Zeitz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiii + 278 pp. The book makes three contributions to the field of the study of postwar...