Text from the Poultney, Vermont, Minutes of the Congregation, 15 September 1871.

VOLUME LX NUMBER 1 & 2 ISSN 002-905X
Published by The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives

Gary P. Zola, Ph.D., Editor
Dana Herman, Ph.D., Managing Editor
Phil Reekers, Editorial Assistant
Jacob Rader Marcus, Ph.D., Founding Editor (1896-1995)

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THIS ISSUE: CONTENTS

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ARTICLES:

“Salvation Comes from America”: The United States in the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums ~ Sonja L. Mekel
The Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums, established in 1837, was one of the most important and widely read Jewish newspapers ever published in Germany. Throughout its existence, the paper showed an enduring interest in the United States. This article argues that America, as portrayed in the Allgemeine, served as a model for an almost ideal civil society in the face of continuing anti-Semitism and political ills in Germany. At the same time, the example set by American Jewry presented German-Jewish readers with standards of behavior for emancipated Jews.
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“But You Can’t See the Fear that People Lived Through”: Canadian Jewish Chaplains and Canadian Encounters with Dutch Survivors, 1944–1945 ~ Richard Menkis
Encounters between Canadian liberators and Dutch survivors have received little attention, although Canadian forces played a central role in the liberation of the Netherlands. This article analyzes that role largely through the eyes of two Canadian Jewish chaplains, Samuel Cass and I.B. Rose. Their emotional, intellectual, and practical responses gave rise to both individual and organized relief efforts. This paper also looks at homefront responses to the Holocaust, which suggest that certain decisions on aid allocation worked against Dutch Jews; as well, it examines the chaplains as religious leaders and teachers to their soldiers.
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DOCUMENTARY ANALYSES:

“Members of this Book”: The Pinkas of Vermont’s First Jewish Congregation
~ Robert S. Schine
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View a color reproduction of the full Poultney, Vermont Pinkas analyzed in the above article. (11.5 MB) Download PDF

Fighting Segregation, Threats, and Dynamite: Rabbi William B. Silverman’s Nashville Battle
~ David J. Meyer
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BOOK REVIEWS:
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Jeanne E. Abrams, Jewish Denver, 1859–1940
reviewed by Ronnie Grinberg

Joyce Antler, You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother
reviewed by Shira Kohn

Emily Bingham, Mordecai: An Early American Family
reviewed by Israel Zoberman

Beth B. Cohen, Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America
reviewed by Rachel Kranson

Marcie Cohen Ferris and Mark I. Greenberg, eds., Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History and Mark K. Bauman, ed., Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History
reviewed by Rachel Bergstein

Henry Feingold, ‘Silent No More:’ Saving the Jews of Russia, The American Jewish Effort, 1967–1989
reviewed by Michael R. Cohen

David Grubin, The Jewish Americans DVD and the companion book by Beth S. Wenger, The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America
reviewed by Jonathan Krasner

Victoria Hattam, In the Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States
reviewed by Amaryah Orenstein

Iuliu “Julius” Herscovici, The Jews of Vicksburg, Mississippi
reviewed by Josh Parshall

Edward K. Kaplan, Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940–1972
reviewed by Jason Kalman

Ruth Klüger, unterwegs verloren: Erinnerungen
reviewed by Gert Niers

Laura Levitt, American Jewish Loss After the Holocaust
reviewed by Kirsten Fermaglich

Stefano Luconi, La faglia dell’antisemitismo. Italiani ed Ebrei negli Stati Uniti, 1920–1941
reviewed by Francesca Y. Albertini

Anita Norich, Discovering Exile: Yiddish and American Culture During the Holocaust
reviewed by Itay B. Zutra

William Pencak, Jews and Gentiles in Early America, 1654–1800
reviewed by Emily Bingham

Marc Lee Raphael, Diary of a Los Angeles Jew, 1947–1972: Autobiography as Autofiction
reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield

Marianne R. Sanua, Let Us Prove Strong: The American Jewish Committee, 1945–2006
reviewed by Rebecca Cutler

Deborah R. Weiner, et al., eds., Voices of Lombard Street: A Century of Change in East Baltimore
reviewed by Joan S. Friedman

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