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American Jewish History archives from September 1997
Is the Jew white?: the racial place of the Southern Jew.(Special Issue: Directions in Southern Jewish History, Part One)
September 1, 1997... In 1910 the Dixie Publishing Company of Moravian Falls, North Carolina, published The Jew a Negro, Being A Study of the Jewish Ancestry from an Impartial Standpoint by the Rev. Arthur T. Abernethy, A.M., Ph.D. Abernethy--a preacher, professor,...
East European immigrants and the image of Jews in the small-town South.(Special Issue: Directions in Southern Jewish History, Part One)
September 1, 1997... In accounts of the Jewish experience in the smaller cities and towns of the South, the story of immigrants from Eastern Europe has received far less attention that it deserves. Rather, it has been the story of Jewish pioneers from the states of...
Personality, politics and the price of justice: Ephraim Frisch, San Antonio's "radical" rabbi.(Special Issue: Directions in Southern Jewish History, Part One)
September 1, 1997... On Tuesday, 29 June 1937, 15 uniformed and plainclothes officers of the San Antonio police department descended on the headquarters of the Workers' Alliance, a Communist-led group that promoted labor interests. According to one participant, the...
The mixers: the role of rabbis deep in the heart of Texas.(Special Issue: Directions in Southern Jewish History, Part One)
September 1, 1997... Wanted: Rabbi. Young man, native of America or England, that is a good
lecturer who can make himself agreeable with either Orthodox or Reform
Congregation. In other words, we want a MIXER. We Pay $1,500 a year.(1)
Rabbi...
The Landscape of Belief: Encountering the Holy Land in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture.
September 1, 1997... By John Davis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. pp. 264 + 107 illus.
Americans have maintained an ongoing relationship with the Holy Land. From pilgrimages to Palestine, to models and artwork that recreated holy sites on...
New York Jews and the Great Depression: Uncertain Promise.
September 1, 1997... By Beth S. Wenger. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. pp. 206.
When studying the 1930s, historians of American Jewry have focused their scholarly attention almost exclusively on American responses to the enormity of Nazi atrocities,...