VOLUME
LIV NUMBER 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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The
Cincinnati Bible War (1869-1873) and its Impact on the Education of
the City's Protestants, Catholics, and Jews ~ Stephen
F. Blumberg
Stephen Blumberg reminds readers that controversy about the
role of religion in public schools is not new in American history.
Blumberg's analysis examines a momentous event in the history of public
education in Cincinnati, the so-called Cincinnati Bible War and its
implictions for the city's three major religious groups. Although
a case study of Cincinnati in the years after the American Civil War,
the article develops a number of themes about the role of religion
in education that resonate today.
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Arnold
Brunner's Henry S. Frank Memorial Synagogue and the Emergence of "Jewish
Art" in Early Twentieth-Century America ~ Steven
Fine
In the late nineteenth century American
architects developed a facination with the classical past. Steven
Fine's article examines how American Jewish architects, supported
by prominent members of the American Jewish community, developed a
sense of Jewish space and art that played an important role in the
development of an American Jewish historical consciousness. His case
study of Philadelphia's Frank Synagogue provides a window into the
role of physical space in Jewish connumity life.
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The
Wartime Letters of Rabbi Morris Frank, 1944-1945 ~ Frederic
Krome
Rabbi Morris
Frank, a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America,
served as a miitary chaplain with the Fourth Infantry Division from
the D-Day invasion to the liberation of the death camps. Rabbi Frank's
letters from the front reveal a dimension of the war in Europe not
normally seen by students of American Jewish history - a rabbi's
perspective of the tribulations, and meaning, of the war from a
Jewish prespective. Alternately funny, melancholy, and vivid in
their depictions of events, these letters will be of interest to
anyone seeking to understand the significance of the war to American
Jewry.
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Reassessing
American Jewry's Response to Hitler: The Pitfalls of Revisionist
History • Guilie Ne'eman Arad, America,
Its Jews, and the Rise of Nazism ~ Rafael
Medoff
America and Israel: Decline of the Special
Relationship? •
Allon Gal and Alfred Gottschalk, eds. Beyond Survival
and Philanthropy: American Jewry and Israel •
Steven T. Rosenthal, Irreconcilable Differences?
The Waning of the American Jewish Love Affair with Israel
~
Yaakov Ariel
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•
Barry M. Levenson, Habeas Codfish: Reflections on Food
and the Law reviewed by Nathan
Abrams
• Shlomo Shafir, Ambiguous Relations:
the American Jewish Community and Germany Since 1945 reviewed
by Rona Sheramy
• Eli Lederhendler, New York Jews
and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950-1970 reviewed
by David Stradling
• Arieh J. Kovachi, Post-Holocaust Politics. Britain,
the United States, & Jewish Refugees, 1945-1948 reviewed
by Henry R. Winkler
NEWS
FROM THE JACOB RADER MARCUS CENTER OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES
Digging Up Our Roots:
American Jewish Genealogy at the AJA •
Christine Crandall
Recent Acquisitions •
Kevin Proffitt
Stanley
F. Chyet (1931-2002)
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