VOLUME LVI NUMBER 1 & 2 ISSN 002-905X
Published by The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish
Archives
Gary P. Zola, Ph.D., Editor
Frederic Krome, Ph.D., Managing Editor
Jacob Rader Marcus, Ph.D., Founding Editor (1896-1995)
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The
Ark:
An Early Twentieth-Century Periodical ~ Naomi W. Cohen
The Ark, a monthly illustrated magazine for American Jewish
children published between 1911 and 1923, is a valuable source for
social historians, and also adds to our understanding of how Jewish
youths were inculcated with Americna values.
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The
Jewish Vocational Service of Newark, New Jersey, 1950-1980 ~ Edward
Shapiro
The Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) pf Newark, New Jersey was founded
during the Great Depression, and provided vocational training for
members of the local Jewish community, both native born and recent
immigrants. Although a small organization for the first years of its
existence, the JVS's responsibilities and staff expanded in the aftermath
of Waorld War II in response to changes within the community that
it was established to serve.
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Jewish
Chautauqua, Jewish History, and a Jewish Correspondence School: A
Failed Experiment in Jewish Education ~ Jonathan Krasner
The Jewish Chautauqua Society (JCS) represents a formative chapter
in the history of American Jewish education. It organized the first
national Jewish teachers institutes as well as a correspondence school
for religious-school teachers, and was a pioneer in the areas of adult
education, textbook publication, audio-visual production, and curricular
development. Ultimately it failed to become the national center its
founders envisioned it to be.
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The
Jewish Atate in Abba Hillel Silver's Overall World View ~ Zohar Segev
In 1948 Abba Hillel Silver spoke to the United Nations General Assembly,
advocating the creation of the State of Israel. Silver rose to prominence
as a leader of the American Zionist movement during the decade that
witnessed the mass destruction of the Holocaust and the creation of
a Jewish homeland. This artilce demonstrates how he integrated his
American identity with his Zionism.
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Galveston
and Palestine: Immigration and Ideology in the Early Twentieth Century
~ Gur Alroey
Prior to World War I hundreds of Jewish immigrants left the Russian
empire to make new lives away from Tzarist repression. Among this
mass migration were thousands of Jews who left Russia and entered
the U.S. through the port of Galveston, while another group migrated
from Eastern Europe to Palestine. Alroey's article compares these
two, relatively small, groups of immigranats and places their story
into the wider panoply of Jewish historiography.
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Facist
Antisemitism and Jewish-Italian Relations in the United States ~ Stefano
Luconi
In 1941, Italian-Americans and Jewish-Americans made up a substantial
percentage of the population of New York City. Luconi examines the
nature of the relationship between these two ethnic groups, and challenges
the prevailing assumption that the policy of Mussolini's Fascist government
had little impact on the Italian community of New York in the period
leading up to Americanentry into World War II.
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The
Mercies of a Benign Judge: A Letter from Gershom Seixas to Hannah
Adams, 1810 ~ Dan Judson
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Jonathan
Sarna, American Judaism:
A History
Reviewed by Anne C. Rose
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Monty Noam Penkower,
Decision on Palestion Deferred: America, Britain and Wartime Diplomacy,
1939-1945
Reviewed by Rafael Medoff
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Robert Philipson, The
Identity Question: Blacks and Jews in Europe and America
Reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield
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Michael E. Staub,
Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America
Reviewed by Daniel Greene
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Ava F. Kahn,
ed., Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush: A Documentary history,
1849-1880
Reviewed by Hollace Ava Weiner
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Penny Schine Gold,
Making the Bible Modern: Children's Bibles and Jewish Education
in Twentieth-Century America
Reviewed by Lila Corwin Berman
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Recent
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