American Jewish History articles from September 2000

American Jewish History archives from September 2000

The Slaton Memorandum: A Governor Looks Back At His Decision to Commute the Death Sentence of Leo Frank.(Excerpt)
September 1, 2000... Very near the end of his long life (he lived to see his 88th birthday), John Marshall Slaton (1866-1955) wrote a short, not quite 2400-word, memorandum explaining why some 40 years earlier he had commuted the death sentence of Leo M. Frank to...

Max Weber's Jewish Paintings.
September 1, 2000... I A history of Jewish American art has yet to be written. Although there were a few nineteenth-century Jewish artists, such a history would really begin with the early twentieth century. Its range would include artists who work or have...

Clare Boothe Luce and the Jews: A Chapter from the Catholic-Jewish Disputation of Postwar America.
September 1, 2000... "He Who brought you into the vineyard has not stopped leading you," Monsignor Fulton Sheen wrote to Clare Boothe Luce in the winter of 1946-1947, a year after her celebrated conversion to Catholicism. "Out of all America, out of the world,"...

The Engineer and the Shtadlanim:(1) Herbert Hoover and American Jewish non-Zionists, 1917-28.
September 1, 2000... In 1967, retired Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, a lifelong friend and trusted confidant of Herbert Hoover, offered a postmortem appraisal of the president's racial attitudes: "He appreciated talent. He didn't care whether the man who had it was of...

In Search of American Jewish Culture.(Review)
September 1, 2000... In Search of American Jewish Culture. By Stephen J. Whitfield. Hanover, New Hampshire and London: University Press of New England, 1999. xvi + 307 pp. Writing about Jewish American culture in the mid-80s, Stephen Whitfield refused to be...

Jewish Life and American Culture.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Jewish Life and American Culture. By Sylvia Barack Fishman. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. xviii + 242 pp. Writing about Jewish American culture in the mid-80s, Stephen Whitfield refused to be "animated by anxiety, or...

The "Jewish Threat": Anti-Semitic Politics of the U. S. Army.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The "Jewish Threat": Anti-Semitic Politics of the U. S. Army. By Joseph Bendersky. New York: Basic Books, 2000. xvii + 538 pp. This is one of the finest studies that I have read about pervasive antisemitism in an American institution....

The Jewish Self-Image in the West.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Jewish Self-Image in the West. By Michael Berkowitz. New York: New York University Press, 2000. 176 pp. In The Jewish Self-Image in the West, Michael Berkowitz sets out to explore the "internal Jewish visual discourse" which European,...

Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America. By Marc Dollinger. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. xi + 296 pp. The premise of this book is undeniably significant. From Horace Kallen to Robert Reich, Jews have been...

Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism. By Karla Goldman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. xii + 275 pp. Scholars in American religious history and women's history have consistently documented...

Cultures of Opposition: Jewish Immigrant Workers, New York City, 1881-1905.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Cultures of Opposition: Jewish Immigrant Workers, New York City, 1881-1905. By Hadassa Kosak. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. vii + 220 pp. The Jewish labor activism that grew out of New York's Lower East Side in the...

Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity. By Steven J. Zipperstein. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1999. xii + 139 pp. In this memorable book Steven J. Zipperstein explores what he regards as the necessary...

American Jewish Historical Society.
September 1, 2000... 2000 FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES Lee Max Friedman Award for distinguished service in the field of American Jewish History Professor Arthur Goren Columbia University and Hebrew University Board of Trustees Fellowship Dr. Zohar Segev...