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VOLUME LIX 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., 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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ARTICLES:

A Century of Southern Jewish Historiography ~ Mark K. Bauman
The historical reconstruction of southern Jewish history has changed dramatically over more than a century. In this pioneering historiographical essay, Bauman explicates the development of the field, poses critical questions, and suggests directions for future research. His close reading of the sources sheds light not only on this burgeoning area of study, but on the broader patterns of American Jewish historical literature.
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DOCUMENTARY ANALYSES:

Rabbi Morris Newfield: Ambassador to the Gentiles, a Balancing Act
~ Scott M. Langston
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A.E. Frankland’s History of the 1873 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee
~ Alan M. Kraut
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From Rebbetzin to Rabbi: The Journey of Paula Ackerman
~ Shuly Rubin Schwartz
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Judah P. Benjamin and Slavery
~ Maury Wiseman
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BOOK REVIEWS:
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Jeanne E. Abrams, Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: A History in the American West
reviewed by David S. Koffman

Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer, trans. and eds., My Future is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants
reviewed by Gil Ribak

Kirsten Fermaglich, American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957–1965
reviewed by Richard Menkis

Zvi Ganin, An Uneasy Relationship: American Jewish Leadership and Israel, 1948–1957
reviewed by Eran Kaplan

Eric L. Goldstein, The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity
reviewed by Glen Anthony Harris

Michael J. Kurtz, America and the Return of Nazi Contraband: The Recovery of Europe’s Cultural Treasures
reviewed by Dana Herman

Michael M. Lorge and Gary P. Zola, eds., A Place of Our Own: The Rise of Reform Jewish Camping
reviewed by Rachel Gordan

Tony Michels, A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York
reviewed by Melissa R. Klapper

Ira Robinson, Rabbis & Their Community: Studies in the Eastern European Orthodox Rabbinate in Montreal, 1896–1930
reviewed by Rebecca Margolis

Robert N. Rosen, Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust
reviewed by Alonzo L. Hamby

Shuly Rubin Schwartz, The Rabbi’s Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life
reviewed by Lara Rabinovitch

Cornelia Wilhelm, Deutsche Juden in Amerika: Bürgerliches Selbstbewusstsein und jüdische Identität in den Orden B’nai B’rith und Treue Schwestern, 1843–1914
reviewed by Sonja L. Mekel

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