American Jewish History articles from September 1998

American Jewish History archives from September 1998

The Real Mary Antin: Woman on a Mission in the Promised Land.
September 1, 1998... The majority of people who are interested in American Jewish History, and certainly all those interested in immigration history, have heard of a turn-of-the-century author named Mary Antin. However, despite this superficial name recognition,...

Beyond San Francisco: The Failure of Anti-Zionism in Portland, Oregon.
September 1, 1998... Historians of the Jewish experience in the American West have struggled to break free of generalizations based on the eastern metropolitan experience that have ruled American Jewish history. Critical studies of Jewish life in the western states...

Wright's Beth Sholom Synagogue.(Architect Frank Lloyd Wright)
September 1, 1998... Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) designed more than 1,000 buildings, for a myriad of uses, throughout America. Admired internationally by architects, historians, and the general public, he is often associated with two structures: Fallingwater,...

Necrology: Milton Hindus, 1916-1998.(Brandeis University professor of literature)
September 1, 1998... In the preface to his Essays: Personal and Impersonal (1988), Milton Hindus spelled out the underlying principle of his life's work: "My conviction is that the most important life is that of the mind, and if this does not transpire through all...

Letter to the Editor.
September 1, 1998... To the Editor: Many thanks for your series: Directions In Southern Jewish History (85:3 and 85:4). It brought to mind an observation I stumbled across during my research as the archivist for Agudath Achim Congregation in Shreveport,...

A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism.(Review)
September 1, 1998... A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism. By Jeffrey S. Gurock and Jacob S. Schacter. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. pp. 220. A collaborative effort between Jeffrey S....

Alternatives to Assimilation: The Response of Reform Judaism to American Culture, 1840-1930.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Alternatives to Assimilation: The Response of Reform Judaism to American Culture, 1840-1930. By Alan Silverstein. Hanover, N. H.: Brandeis University Press, 1994. x + 275 pp. In Alternatives to Assimilation, Alan Silverstein brings a fresh...

The Emergence of American Zionism.(Review)
September 1, 1998... The Emergence of American Zionism. By Mark A. Raider (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), 296 pp. + xvii Minority factions in the American Jewish community have attracted increased scholarly attention in recent years....