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Photo of Naomi W. Cohen, along with the cover art of five of her books.

VOLUME LXI NUMBER 2 (2009): IN CELEBRATION OF NAOMI W. COHEN
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

To our readers ~ Gary P. Zola, Editor
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APPRECIATION:

Naomi W. Cohen as Teacher and Scholar: An Appreciation ~ Robert M. Seltzer et al.
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Writings of Naomi W. Cohen ~ Compiled by Brian Smollett
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ARTICLES:

The Education of Jewish, Protestant, and Catholic Children in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York City ~ Stephan F. Brumberg
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“Not Quite ‘Our Crowd’”: The Trajectory of the Obermayer Family, 1618–2009 ~ Kenneth Libo
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Jewish Life in the United States 1878–1881, According to Ha-Zefirah ~ Robert M. Seltzer
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“Free America:” Glimpses of Jewish Immigrant Life in the Pages of American Brivnshtelers ~ Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman
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Commissioner Williams and the Jews ~ Naomi W. Cohen
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The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Hebraist: The Life and Dreams of Aron Shimon Shpall ~ Shuly Rubin Schwartz
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The Depth of Ethnicity: Jewish Identity and Ideology in Interwar New York City ~ Jeffrey S. Gurock
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American Jewish Leadership Confronts the Holocaust: Revisiting Naomi Cohen’s Thesis and the American Jewish Committee ~ Steven Bayme
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BOOK REVIEWS:
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Herbert Alpert, Louis Marshall, 1856–1929: A Life Devoted To Justice and Judaism
reviewed by Henry M. Greenberg

Baruch J. Cohon, ed., Faithfully Yours: Selected Rabbinical Correspondence of Rabbi Samuel S. Cohon During the Years 1917–1957
reviewed by Mara Cohen Ioannides

Aviva Ben-Ur, Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History
reviewed by Ronnie Perelis

Hasia Diner, We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945–1962
reviewed by Robin Judd

Henry L. Feingold, Jewish Power in America: Myth and Reality
reviewed by Robert M. Seltzer

Jeffrey S. Gurock, Orthodox Jews in America
reviewed by William Shaffir

Ira Robinson, Translating a Tradition: Studies in American Jewish History
reviewed by David Weinfeld

Barry Seldes, Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician
reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield

Gerald Tulchinsky, Canada’s Jews: A People’s Journey
reviewed by Steven Lapidus

Mel Young, ed., Uriah: Uriah Phillips Levy, Captain, USN, and the Naval Court of Inquiry
reviewed by William Pencak

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RECENT ARCHIVAL ACQUISITIONS

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VOLUME LXI NUMBER 2 INDEX

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