VOLUME
LIII NUMBERS 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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To our readers Gary P. Zola, Editor
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American Jews and the Effort to Reform Motion Pictures, 1933–1935 ~ Felicia Herman
The pervasive influence of American Jews in Hollywood, and upon film content, is one of the historical truisms of our age. Indeed, during the 1930s calls for movie censorship were sometimes inseparable from antisemitic attacks upon “Jewish Hollywood.” Felicia Herman goes beyond the myths to examine the actual influence of prominent rabbis and Jewish communal leaders in the movement to “reform”the content and message of films during the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood. Herman’s analysis provides a valuable case study into how American Jewry coped with a major domestic issue at a time of rising antisemitism.
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Hoover, Palestine, and the American Jewish Community ~ Sonja Wentling
The relationship between the American presidency and American Jewry has received a great deal of scholarly, and popular, attention. Sonja Wentling’s meticulous examination of President Herbert Hoover’s relationship with the American Jewish community in the aftermath of the 1929 riots in Palestine opens new avenues of research into the actual political influence of American Jewry in the decade before World War II. Wentling’s efforts bring to light a number of important issues through the study of a relatively neglected topic.
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“The Significance of a Jewish University”: A Sermon on the Founding of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ~ Kimmy Caplan
We know a great deal about the social, political, and even economic issues surrounding the founding of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1925. Less well known are the religious responses, especially those among the American Jewish community. Kimmy Caplan uses a sermon of Rabbi Israel H. Levinthal in New York as a vehicle for examining how American Judaism regarded the founding of the first “ Jewish University”in the modern era.
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The Transformation of Jewish Social Services in Atlanta, 1928–1948 ~ Mark Bauman
Throughout the twentieth century Jewish social service agencies have undergone fundamental transformations. Mark Bauman’s detailed study of Jewish social services in Atlanta reveals that these institutions faced many of the same centripetal and centrifugal forces that shaped the American Jewish community. By the post-World War II era everything from communal leadership to the location of social service offices reflected the changed nature of the American Jewish community.
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Jewish Women and Vocational Education in New York City, 1885–1925 ~ Melissa Klapper
During the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth, vocational education came into vogue among Jewish philanthropists as an effective means for promoting acculturation and the economic improvement of the new Jewish immigrants then entering the United States in unprecedented numbers. Vocational education for young Jewish women, whose need to earn a wage interfered with the vision of middle-class domesticity that many of the schools’ directors had for their pupils, presented a special case. Klapper’s research shows how the Jewish women’s vocational schools acted as a staging ground for the intersection of competing cultural, religious, and economic values and aspirations.
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Creating Hebraism, Confronting Hellenism: The Menorah Journal and its Struggle for the Jewish Imagination~ Lewis Fried
The significance of Hebrew and Hebraic culture was part of an extended dialogue among American Jewish intellectuals during the first part of the twentieth century. Lewis Fried provides a detailed analysis of how this debate played out among members of the Intercollegiate Menorah Association and through the Menorah Journal, reached a wide audience of American Jewish students. Fundamentally, the debates over a distinctive Hebraic culture helped fuel the growth of an American Jewish historical consciousness during the interwar years.
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| BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH AND DOCUMENT: |
Jacob De La Motta, M.D.: An Early American Jewish Medical Pioneer ~ Theodore Cohen
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Jewish Wars, American Style • Samuel G. Freedman, Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry ~ Benny Kraut
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BACK ISSUES of the American Jewish Archives Journal
- Volume LIV (2002)
- Volume LIII (2001)
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