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Jewish Territorial Organization letterhead, 1907.
VOLUME LVI 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, M.A., Interim Managing Editor
Jacob Rader Marcus, Ph.D., Founding Editor (1896-1995)
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VOLUME LVI NUMBER 1 & 2 ISSN 002-905X (2mb)
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ARTICLES:
The Ark: An Early Twentieth-Century Periodical ~ Naomi W.
Cohen
The Ark, a monthly illustrated magazine for American Jewish children
published between 1911 and 1923, is a valuable source for social historians,
and also adds to our understanding of how Jewish youths were inculcated with
Americna values.
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The Jewish Vocational Service of Newark, New Jersey, 1950-1980
~ Edward Shapiro
The Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) pf Newark, New Jersey was founded during
the Great Depression, and provided vocational training for members of the
local Jewish community, both native born and recent immigrants. Although
a small organization for the first years of its existence, the JVS's responsibilities
and staff expanded in the aftermath of Waorld War II in response to changes
within the community that it was established to serve.
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Jewish Chautauqua, Jewish History, and a Jewish Correspondence
School: A Failed Experiment in Jewish Education ~ Jonathan Krasner
The Jewish Chautauqua Society (JCS) represents a formative chapter in the
history of American Jewish education. It organized the first national Jewish
teachers institutes as well as a correspondence school for religious-school
teachers, and was a pioneer in the areas of adult education, textbook publication,
audio-visual production, and curricular development. Ultimately it failed
to become the national center its founders envisioned it to be.
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The Jewish Atate in Abba Hillel Silver's Overall World View
~ Zohar Segev
In 1948 Abba Hillel Silver spoke to the United Nations General Assembly, advocating
the creation of the State of Israel. Silver rose to prominence as a leader of
the American Zionist movement during the decade that witnessed the mass destruction
of the Holocaust and the creation of a Jewish homeland. This artilce demonstrates
how he integrated his American identity with his Zionism.
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Galveston and Palestine: Immigration and Ideology in the
Early Twentieth Century ~
Gur Alroey
Prior to World War I hundreds of Jewish immigrants left the Russian empire to
make new lives away from Tzarist repression. Among this mass migration were thousands
of Jews who left Russia and entered the U.S. through the port of Galveston, while
another group migrated from Eastern Europe to Palestine. Alroey's article compares
these two, relatively small, groups of immigranats and places their story into
the wider panoply of Jewish historiography.
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Facist Antisemitism and Jewish-Italian Relations in the United
States ~ Stefano Luconi
In 1941, Italian-Americans and Jewish-Americans made up a substantial percentage
of the population of New York City. Luconi examines the nature of the relationship
between these two ethnic groups, and challenges the prevailing assumption
that the policy of Mussolini's Fascist government had little impact on the
Italian community of New York in the period leading up to Americanentry into
World War II.
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DOCUMENT:
The Mercies of a Benign Jidge: A Letter from Gershom Seixas
to Hannah Adams, 1810 ~ Dan Judson
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BOOK REVIEWS:
Jonathan Sarna, American Judaism: A History
Reviewed by Anne C. Rose
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Monty Noam Penkower, Decision on Palestion Deferred: America,
Britain and Wartime Diplomacy, 1939-1945
Reviewed by Rafael Medoff
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Robert Philipson, The Identity
Question: Blacks and Jews in Europe and America
Reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield
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Michael E. Staub, Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish
Liberalism in Postwar America
Reviewed by Daniel Greene
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Ava F. Kahn, ed., Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush:
A Documentary history, 1849-1880
Reviewed by Hollace Ava Weiner
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Penny Schine Gold, Making
the Bible Modern: Children's Bibles and Jewish Education in Twentieth-Century
America
Reviewed by Lila Corwin Berman
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