Wiese, Christian, and Cornelia Wilhelm American Jewry: Transcending the European Experience London: Bloomsbury Academic 392 pp., $39.95, ISBN 978–1441126221 Publication Date: November 2016 (original) (raw)

Scattered Unity: Jewish Americans and the Progressive Era, 1890 - 1920

2019

Between 1881 and 1914, the United States experienced its largest influx of Jewish immigrants in its history. This process coincided with an era of political reform and cultural change known as the Progressive Era (1890-1920). This paper shall show in what ways Jewish Americans and new Jewish immigrants conformed to or resisted progressive tendencies within the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Transformations and Emergent Themes in American Jewish Women’s History

Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal

This essay studies emergent themes in American Jewish women’s history and integrates them within the broader, often sustained, themes in the field of American Jewish women’s history. Beginning with a brief historiography of the field of American Jewish women’s history as it emerged in the late 1970s, this examination traces its transformation over the following decades and its evolution to today. In addition to presenting the field’s persistent themes, including work and domesticity (women’s roles in both the public and private spheres), politics and social activism, religiosity, and feminism, looking at key texts from both feminist scholars as well as recent works in the field of modern Jewish history, this essay highlights the emergence of new lines of scholarly inquiry spanning contemporary social, cultural, political, economic, and broad intersectional discourse. Moreover, this essay advances and emphasizes two clear patterns of emergent literature based on this assessment. Firs...

Southern Jewish History, v. 22 (2019), full issue

Southern Jewish History, 2019

COVER PICTURE: Rabbi Edward L. Israel of Baltimore’s Har Sinai Congregation, 1930s. Rabbi Israel’s career as a social activist is examined by Charles L. Chavis, Jr., in the article on pp. 43–87. (Courtesy of the Jewish Museum of Maryland, Baltimore. 2012.108.140.) TABLE OF CONTENTS In Memoriam: Leonard Dinnerstein (1934–2019) “Free From Proscription and Prejudice”: Politics and Race in the Election of One Jewish Mayor in Late Reconstruction Louisiana, by Jacob Morrow-Spitzer Rabbi Edward L. Israel: The Making of a Progressive Interracialist, 1923–1941, by Charles L. Chavis, Jr. A Call to Service: Rabbis Jacob M. Rothschild, Alexander D. Goode, Sidney M. Lefkowitz, and Roland B. Gittelsohn and World War II, by Edward S. Shapiro Hyman Judah Schachtel, Congregation Beth Israel, and the American Council for Judaism, by Kyle Stanton PRIMARY SOURCES: A Foot Soldier in the Civil Rights Movement: Lynn Goldsmith with SCLC–SCOPE, Summer 1965, by Miyuki Kita BOOK REVIEWS Eric L. Goldstein and Deborah R. Weiner, On Middle Ground: A History of the Jews of Baltimore, reviewed by Deborah Dash Moore Charles McNair, Play It Again, Sam: The Notable Life of Sam Massell, Atlanta’s First Minority Mayor, reviewed by Ronald H. Bayor James L. Moses, Just and Righteous Causes: Rabbi Ira Sanders and the Fight for Racial and Social Justice in Arkansas, 1926–1963, reviewed by Marc Dollinger Leon Waldoff, A Story of Jewish Experience in Mississippi, reviewed by Joshua Parshall EXHIBIT REVIEWS The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, reviewed by Elijah Gaddis Gone 2 Texas: Two Waves of Immigration, Soviet and South African, reviewed by Nils Roemer WEBSITE REVIEW: Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Jewish Kentucky Oral History Project, reviewed by Joshua Parshall