VOLUME LIV NUMBER 1 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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Felix Warburg and the Palestinian Arabs: A Reassessment~ Rafael Medoff
During his lifetime, Feliz Warburg, a prominent fixture in the interwar American Jewish community, was known primarily for his philanthropic work. On the question of Zionism and Palestine Warburg was a "non-Zionist," someone who believed in Jewish settlement, but not necessarily a Jewish state in Palestine. Based on his extensive research of Warburg's papers, Medoff challenges this traditional interpretation by focusing on the period after the anti-Jewish roit of 1929. In the process Medoff provides important insight into how American Jewry responded to the developing crisis afflicting world Jewry.
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The Independent Order of True Sisters: Friendship, Fraternity, and a Model of Modernity for Nineteenth Century American Jewish womanhood ~ Cornelia Wilhelm
A great deal of historical attention has been focused on the development of the modern Jewish man. Cornelia Wilhelm focuses on the development of the modern Jewish woman through a case study of an American Jewish organization, the True Sisters of Reform, which was composed primarily of German Jewish immigrants. Professor Wilhelm also draws a linkage between the women's organization with the nascent B'nai B'rith order, which was founded during the same period. Wilhelm's anaylsis provided critical insight into the history of American Jewish women during a formative period.
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Rebecca Aaronson Brickner: Preacher, Teacher, and Rebbetzin in Israel ~ Shuly Rubin Schwartz
Rebecca Brickner was the spouse of Rabbi Barnett Brickner of Cleveland, Ohio. Through Rebecca Brickner's correspondence, written while she was on sabbatical in Palestine in the early 1930's, Schwartz provides a fascinating picture of the relationship between a prominient rabbi and his wife - known as rebbetzin - at a time when women's roles in American Judaism did not often enable them to engage in intellectual activities.
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Remembering the Lower East Side • Hasia R. Diner, Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America • Hasia R. Diner, Joseph Shandler, Beth S. Wenger, eds. Remembering the Lower East Side: American Jewish Reflections ~ Roger Daniels
The Statistical Study of Conservative Judaism in America • Jack Wertheimer, ed., Jews in the Center: Conservative Synagogues and their Members ~ Dana Evan Kaplan
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• Jeffry Melnick, Black-Jewish Relationa on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South reviewed by Daniel Greene
• Yaakov Ariel, Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews in America, 1880-2000 reviewed by Avihu Zakai
• Michael Meyer and W. Gunther Plaut, The Reform Judaism Reader: North American Documents reviewed by David Komerofsky
• Kurt Stone, The Congressional Minyan: the Jews of Capitol Hill and Robert Rosen, The Jewish Confederates reviewed by Melinda McMartin
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