VOLUME LV 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) |
To our readers Gary P. Zola, Editor
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Max Lilienthal and Isaac M. Wise: Architects of American
Reform Judaism ~ Bruce L. Ruben
Max Lilienthal spent much of his professional career in Cincinnati at K.K. Bene Israel, the oldest congregation west of the Allegheny Mountains. A close friend of Isaac Mayer Wise, Lilienthal was fated to sit in the shadow of his contemporary, the era’s famous reformer. Ruben provides the first new assessment of Lilienthal, the “moderate reformer,” in a generation. Ruben’s analysis focuses on Lilienthal’s time in New York, a period when this often-overlooked figure first developed a close relationship with Wise, and suggests a number of different ways we can examine the significance of his role in the development of American Reform Judaism. The article also provides important insight into how his relationship to Wise developed.
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The Burdman-Levy Archival Expedition of 1962 to Europe ~ Frederic Krome
In 1962 the founder of the American Jewish Archives, Jacob Rader Marcus, embarked on a lengthy archival expedition to Europe and Israel. The trip was the culmination of a decade-long plan by Marcus to investigate the origins of the Colonial American Jew and to collect the documents that would tell that story. Marcus was accompanied on the expedition — which visited half a dozen countries — by Rabbi Theodore Levy and his wife, Ina Rae Levy (nee Burdman), and the trip was made possible through the financial support of the Burdman family. This expedition not only added to the archival holdings of the American Jewish Archives, but it helped shape the direction of Marcus’s scholarship for the next decade.
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Variations on the Mortara Case in Midnineteenth-Century New Orleans ~ Mark H. Bauman
In 1858 eight-year-old Edgardo Mortara of Bologna was taken from his family by Papal police when it emerged that his Christian nurse had secretly baptized him years earlier. The Mortara Affair, as it became known, galvanized the Jewish world to protest, to no avail, that the boy should be returned to his family. Mark Bauman discovered that a similar incident to the Mortara case occurred in the U.S., in New Orleans, at almost the same time. The case of a young orphaned Jewish girl inflamed the passions of a number of American Jews who were also engaged in protests over Mortara.
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Eric Caplan, From Ideology to Liturgy: Reconstructionist Worship and American Liberal Judaism
Reviewed by Ruth Langer
Dana Evan Kaplan, American Reform Judaism: An Introduction
Reviewed by Jonathan Krasner
Egal Feldman, Catholics and Jews in Twentieth-Century America
Reviewed by George R. Wilkes
Christopher M. Sterba, Good Americans: Italian and Jewish Immigrants during the First World War
Reviewed by Stefano Luconi
Joseph W. Bendersky, The “Jewish Threat:” Anti-Semitic Politicsof the U.S. Army
Reviewed by Frederic Krome
Robert Perlman, From Shtetl to Milltown: Litvaks, Hungarians,
and Galizianers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875-1925
Reviewed by Ida Selavan Schwarcz
Theresa M. Collins, Otto Kahn: Art, Money, & Modern Time
Reviewed by R. William Weisberger
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Yoram Bar-Gal, Propaganda and Zionist Education:
The Jewish National Fund, 1924–1947 (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2003) 210 pp.
Reviewed by Frederic Krome
Zeev W. Mankowitz, Between Memory and Hope: The Survivors of the Holocaust in Occupied Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 335 pp.
Reviewed by Frederic Krome
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