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American Jewish History archives from September 2002
The picture at Menorah Journal: making "Jewish art". (Essay).(Editorial)
September 1, 2002... Speaking for myself I can say that the Journal, by its presentation of information of Jewish life widely scattered in both time and place, serves to maintain my Jewish self-consciousness as no other publication can.... I am sure that without a...
Original inventories of early New York Jews (1682-1763).
September 1, 2002... [Editor's Note: In this issue, American Jewish History commences publication of all known surviving inventories of the Jews of colonial New York City. Inventories, compiled shortly after death and submitted to the appropriate court, list all...
Southern Jewish history. (In Pursuit of ...).
September 1, 2002... What began eight years ago as a modest oral history program at the College of Charleston has blossomed into a major traveling exhibit with the ambition of revolutionizing how American Jews think about their history. "A Portion of the People:...
Jewish Artists in New York: the Holocaust Years.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... By Matthew Baigell. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002. xv + 186 pp.
Theorists of trauma such as Dominick LaCapra and Cathy Caruth have taught us that contemporary responses to the Holocaust by those who experienced the...
John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... By Abraham Ben-Zvi. London: Frank Cass, 2002. xii + 140 pp.
Building on his previous work, Decade of Transition: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance (1998), Abraham Ben-Zvi has crafted an informative case...
The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... By Jonathan Freedman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 264 pp.
For readers mainly interested in American Jewish history, Jonathan Freedman's The Temple of Culture will be valuable for its analysis of Jews in academia's English...
Beyond Survival and Philanthropy: American Jewry and Israel.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Edited by Allon Gal & Alfred Gottschalk. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2000. x + 264 pp.
Based on a 1996 conference in Jerusalem and at Kiryat Sde Boker--the site of David Ben-Gurion's kibbutz and the nearby archival research...
Jewish Hearts: a Study of Dynamic Ethnicity in the United States and the Soviet Union.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... By Betty N. Hoffman. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. xxvi + 282 pp.
In this engaging book, Betty N. Hoffman seeks to understand barriers separating recent Russian Jewish immigrants from Jews whose ancestors came to the...
Jewish Life in the American West: Perspectives on Migration, Settlement, and Community.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Edited by Ava F. Kahn. Seattle: University of Washington Press for the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, 2002. 144 pp.
"Early in February 1907 we took the train to the Promised Land" (p. 53). So wrote one of the early Jewish women pioneers...
Imagining the Holy Land: Maps, Models, and Fantasy Travels.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... By Burke O. Long. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. xi + 258 pp.
Between the late-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries, few Americans journeyed to the Holy Land, yet many encountered it. From Lake Chautauqua's Palestine...
Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish-American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff and Roth.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... By Ranen Omer-Sherman. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 2002. xiii + 341 pp.
Ranen Omer-Sherman's Diaspora and Zionism in American Literature proposes that the future of American Jewry lies in...
A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Edited by Theodore Rosengarten and Dale Rosengarten. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2002. xvii + 268 pp.
The major portion of this richly illustrated book consists of the catalog of an exhibit interpreting the history of...
Jewish Baltimore: a Family Album.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... By Gilbert Sandler. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xiv + 209 pp.
Gilbert Sandler is a native Baltimorean with a long, distinguished career as a local journalist who knows more about the city than almost any person alive....