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American Jewish History archives from September 2007
Editor's introduction.(Editorial)
September 1, 2007... Typically when a new editor takes the helm of a scholarly journal, he or she inherits an untidy collection of scholarly articles from the previous editor that, for various reasons, did not fit well into previous issues. This was not the case,...
American Zionists' place in Israel after statehood: from involved partners to outside supporters.(Essay)
September 1, 2007... After the late 1930s, American Jews became an increasingly significant part of the international Jewish arena and of the Zionist movement as a result of the United States' mounting international importance, its growing intervention in the...
From Mashhad to New York: family and gender roles in the Mashhadi immigrant community *.(Mashhad, Iran)(Essay)
September 1, 2007... The crypto-Jewish community of Mashhad, one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest cities in Iran, owes its inception to the settlement of several Jewish families in the city in the first half of the eighteenth century. (1) The community's forced...
Socialist ideology, traditional rhetoric: images of women in American Yiddish socialist dailies, 1918-1922.(Critical essay)
September 1, 2007... The Yiddish press in the United States came into existence with the beginning of Jewish immigration from eastern Europe and soon became, like any other foreign language press, a very important immigrant institution. (1) It encompassed a wide...
The End of "Blacks and Jews".(Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century; Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century. By Cheryl Lynn Greenberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xiii + 351 pp.
Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America. By Eric J. Sundquist....
Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: A History in the American West.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: A History in the American West. By Jeanne E. Abrams. New York: New York University Press, 2006. viii + 278 pp.
Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: A History in the American West is worthy...
Commentary Magazine, 1945-59: "A Journal of Significant Thought and Opinion.".(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Commentary Magazine, 1945-59: "A Journal of Significant Thought and Opinion." By Nathan Abrams. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007. xx + 201 pp.
The New York Jewish intellectual community has long been a popular field of study....
Beyond the Border: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Beyond the Border: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad. By Steven E. Aschheim. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. ix + 194 pp.
Let us reverse for a moment Philip Roth's vision that America had turned fascist and that, as a...
Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen. By Henry Bial. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press; 2005. viii + 195 pp.
In Acting Jewish, Henry Bial offers an important entry into scholarly work on popular...
Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America. By Beth B. Cohen. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, published in association with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2007. xiii + 223p.
Between 1946 and 1954...
Ethnic American Literature: Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African-American Writing.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Ethnic American Literature: Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African-American Writing. By Dean J. Franco. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. x + 219 pp.
"Ethnic literary criticism ought to be comparative," argues Dean J....
The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy. By Murray Friedman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. v + 303 pp.
The neoconservatives, a small group with big ideas, have drawn considerable...
Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book. By Gerard Jones. New York: Basic Books, 2004. xv + 384 pp.
In Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book, Gerard Jones writes the history of the...
Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust. By Robert N. Rosen. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press. 2006. xxxiii + 654 pp.
The Nazi crime of genocide against Jews in World War II was so monstrous; it has left two generations of...