Presenting the American Jewish historical experience from its communal beginnings to the present through documents, photographs, and other illustrations, many of which have never before been published, this entirely new collection of source materials complements existing textbooks on American Jewish history with an organization and pedagogy that reflect the latest historiographical trends and the most creative teaching approaches.
Ten chapters, organized chronologically, include source materials that highlight the major thematic questions of each era and tell many stories about what it was like to immigrate and acculturate to American life, practice different forms of Judaism, engage with the larger political, economic, and social cultures that surrounded American Jews, and offer assistance to Jews in need around the world.
At the beginning of each chapter, the editors provide a brief historical overview highlighting some of the most important developments in both American and American Jewish history during that particular era. Source materials in the collection are preceded by short headnotes that orient readers to the documents’ historical context and significance.
Presenting the American Jewish historical experience from its communal beginnings to the present through documents, photographs, and other illustrations, many of which have never before been published, this entirely new collection of source materials complements existing textbooks on American Jewish history with an organization and pedagogy that reflect the latest historiographical trends and the most creative teaching approaches.
Ten chapters, organized chronologically, include source materials that highlight the major thematic questions of each era and tell many stories about what it was like to immigrate and acculturate to American life, practice different forms of Judaism, engage with the larger political, economic, and social cultures that surrounded American Jews, and offer assistance to Jews in need around the world.
At the beginning of each chapter, the editors provide a brief historical overview highlighting some of the most important developments in both American and American Jewish history during that particular era. Source materials in the collection are preceded by short headnotes that orient readers to the documents’ historical context and significance.
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Presenting the American Jewish historical experience from its communal beginnings to the present through documents, photographs, and other illustrations, many of which have never before been published, this entirely new collection of source materials complements existing textbooks on American Jewish history with an organization and pedagogy that reflect the latest historiographical trends and the most creative teaching approaches.
Ten chapters, organized chronologically, include source materials that highlight the major thematic questions of each era and tell many stories about what it was like to immigrate and acculturate to American life, practice different forms of Judaism, engage with the larger political, economic, and social cultures that surrounded American Jews, and offer assistance to Jews in need around the world.
At the beginning of each chapter, the editors provide a brief historical overview highlighting some of the most important developments in both American and American Jewish history during that particular era. Source materials in the collection are preceded by short headnotes that orient readers to the documents’ historical context and significance.
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| ISBN-13: | 9781611685091 |
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| Publisher: | Brandeis University Press |
| Publication date: | 11/04/2014 |
| Series: | Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life Series |
| Pages: | 478 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.20(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.20(d) |
About the Author
GARY PHILLIP ZOLA is the executive director of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives and professor of the American Jewish experience at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. MARC DOLLINGER is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility, San Francisco State University.
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
CHAPTER 1. CREATING COMMUNITY: THE AMERICAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE DURING THE COLONIAL PERIOD, 1654–1776
BEGINNINGS
Rabbi Isaac Aboab de Fonseca, Recife, Brazil, n.d.
Recife, Brazil, by Zacharias Wagenaer, n.d.
Peter Stuyvesant, Manhattan, to the Amsterdam Chamber of Directors, September 22, 1654
Amsterdam Jewry’s Successful Intercession for the Jewish Immigrants, January 1655
Extract from Reply by the Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Company to Stuyvesant’s Letter, April 26, 1655
Moses Lopez Becomes a Naturalized Citizen, 1741
Barnard Gratz to Michael Gratz, Giving Advice on Immigrating to Philadelphia, November 20, 1758
GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, AND CIVIC STATUS
Description by a Non-Jew of the Jews of New York City, November 2, 1748
Why the Court Refused to Naturalize Aaron Lopez, Superior Court of Rhode Island, Newport, SS. March Term, 1762
BUSINESS AND LABOR
Petition from Abraham Haim DeLucena and Justus Bosch to Governor Robert Hunter, Requesting Permission to Ship Provisions to Jamaica, June 3, 1713
Newspaper Business Advertisement against Emanuel Abrams, by Allan Melville, October 21, 1754
Reply Advertisement by Emanuel Abrams against Alan Melville, 1754
Isaac Elizer and Samuel Moses to Captain John Peck, Giving Instructions for a Journey to Purchase Slaves, October 29, 1762
RELIGION
Touro Synagogue, Exterior, n.d.
Touro Synagogue, Interior, Front View, n.d.
Constitution of Shearith Israel, New York, the Oldest Extant Constitution of a North American Jewish Community, September 15, 1728
The Prosecutor’s Summary of the Evidence from the Trial of Solomon Hays, 1755–1756
FAMILY LIFE AND PHILANTHROPY
Abigaill Franks, in New York, to Her Son, Heartsey, in London, June 7, 1743
Meir Josephson to Michael Gratz concerning a Female Domestic, July 25, 1762
Hannah Paysaddon to Aaron Lopez, Requesting Charity, July 26, 1770
Congregation Gate of Heaven (London) to American Jews, Requesting Support for the Jews of Hebron, Palestine, May 5, 1773
CHAPTER 2. FORGING A NATION: THE AMERICAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE DURING THE REVOLUTION AND THE EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD, 1776–1820
IMMIGRATION AND ADAPTATION
Joseph Salvador to His Cousin Emanuel Mendes da Costa, Describing America, January 22, 1785
Rebecca Samuel to Her Parents in Hamburg, Germany, Describing Her Experiences in Virginia, January 12, 1791
GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, AND CIVIC STATUS
Francis Salvador to South Carolina Chief Justice William H. Drayton, Reporting Local Militia Activity against Native Americans and Loyalists, July 18 and 19, 1776
Maryland Constitution, Articles 33, 35, and 55, Restricting Officeholders to Christians, November 11, 1776
New York Constitution, Articles 35, 38, and 39, Making New York the First State to Emancipate Jews, April 20, 1777
Isaac Touro, a Loyalist, to British General Guy Carleton, Requesting Funds to Relocate to Jamaica, December 12, 1782
Jonas Phillips, Asking the Constitutional Convention to Emancipate Pennsylvania’s Jews, September 7, 1787
Address of the Newport Congregation to the President of the United States of America, August 17, 1790
President George Washington to the Newport Congregation, 1790
Anonymous Reply to James Rivington’s Antisemitic Preface in The Democrat, December 17, 1795
Sampson Simson’s Hebrew Oration at Columbia College, 1800
Isaac Harby to James Monroe on Religious Freedom and the Recall of Mordecai Noah from the U.S. Consulate in Tunis, 1816
Thomas Jefferson to Mordecai Noah on Religious Tolerance, May 28, 1818
Thomas Jefferson to Jacob de la Motta, September 1, 1820
The First Form of the “Jew Bill,” 1819
J. I. Cohen to E. S. Thomas on the Maryland Jew Bill, 1818
BUSINESS AND LABOR
Haym Salomon, Business Advertisement, Freeman’s Journal, 1782
Will of Charleston’s Jacob Jacobs, Which Included Slaves, 1797
A. H. Cohen to Thomas Jefferson, regarding the Health Benefits of Mineral Water, December 21, 1807
Reply of Thomas Jefferson to A. H. Cohen, February 10, 1808
RELIGION
Congregationalist Minister Ezra Stiles to His Friend Rabbi Haim Isaac Carigal, July 7, 1775
Appeal to the Citizens of Philadelphia for Donations to Save Their Synagogue from Foreclosure, Mikve Israel Congregation, Philadelphia, April 30, 1788
Hannah Adams, Reporting on Gershom Seixas’s Survey of American Jewry, 1812
Address by Phillip Milledoler on Evangelizing the Jews, 1817
FAMILY LIFE
Frances Sheftall to Her Husband, July 20, 1780
Samuel Jones, Last Will and Testament, Including Information on His African American Slave, Jenny, and Their Son, Emanuel, January 20, 1809
CHAPTER 3. MIGRATIONS ACROSS AMERICA: JEWS IN THE ANTEBELLUM PERIOD, 1820–1860
IMMIGRATION AND ADAPTATION
Penina Moïse, Poem, “To Persecuted Foreigners,” 1820
Charles L. Mailert to August Mailert, on His Reservations about Immigrating to the United States, 1835
Reasons for Emigration from Bavaria to the United States, Leipziger Zeitung, 1839
Joseph Jonas to Rev. Isaac Leeser, Describing Life in Ohio, December 25, 1843
GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, AND CIVIC STATUS
Letter from Jacob Ezekiel to President John Tyler, Arguing That America Is Not a “Christian Nation,” 1841—with Tyler’s Reply
BUSINESS AND LABOR
Lt. Col. Aaron Levy, “On Land Promoting,” 1821
Abraham Kohn, Reflections of a New England Peddler, ca. 1842–1843
Henry J. Labatt, Newspaper Article on Jews and Business in the Gold Rush, True Pacific Messenger, 1861
RELIGION
Memorial to the President and Members of the Adjunta of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim of Charleston, South Carolina, Demanding Religious Reform, December 23, 1824
Abraham Rice to Isaac Leeser, regarding Religious Reform, December 15, 1848
Rosa Mordecai, Memoir Describing Hebrew School Education in Antebellum America, 1850s
Isaac Jalonick to Isaac Leeser on Jewish Life in Texas, May 28, 1853
I. J. Benjamin, “The Education of Jewish Women in America, 1859–1862”
SOCIAL LIFE
Mordecai Manuel Noah, Address at Ararat, a Proposed Refuge for Jews, 1825
Review of Harrington, a Fictional Account Describing Intermarriage, 1833
ANTI-JEWISH ATTITUDES
Newspaper Account, Cohen-Chisolm Duel, July 25, 1827
Israel B. Kursheedt and Theodore J. Seixas to President Martin Van Buren, on the Damascus Blood Libel, August 24, 1840
CHAPTER 4. SLAVERY AND FREEDOM: AMERICAN JEWS DURING THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION, 1861–1879
CHOOSING SIDES
Letter from Alfred Mordecai to His Brother G. W. Mordecai, March 17, 1861
Private Letter from Alfred Mordecai to Lt. Col. James W. Ripley, on His Resignation from the U.S. Army, May 2, 1861
“The Jews and Slavery,” by Bernhard Felsenthal, Sinai, July 1862.
Eleanor H. Cohen, Journal Entries Detailing the Author’s Love for Both the North and the South, Champion of the Lost Cause, February 28, 1865
JEWS AND THE UNION
Abram J. Dittenhoefer, Excerpt regarding Lincoln’s Election, from How We Elected Lincoln Personal Recollections of Lincoln and Men of His Time, 1860
Grant’s General Orders Number 11, 1862
Gen. H. W. Halleck’s Revocation of Grant’s Orders Number 11, January 4, 1863
Letter from B’nai B’rith Missouri Lodge, Protesting Grant’s Orders Number 11, January 5, 1863
Isaac M. Wise, “The Revolutionary Object of Extremists,” Editorial Opposing Abolitionism, the Israelite, February 27, 1863
Myer S. Isaacs to Abraham Lincoln on the Jewish Vote in the 1864 Election, October 26, 1864
JEWS AND THE CONFEDERACY
Resolution of the Hebrew Congregation in Support of the Confederacy, Shreveport, Louisiana, May 1861
Eugenia Levy Phillips, Diary Reporting the Author’s Experiences as a Confederate, 1861
Twenty-Year Bond Issued by the Confederacy in Honor of Judah P. Benjamin, 1861
Confederate Two-Dollar Bill Showing Judah P. Benjamin, 1864
Isaac Levy to His Sister, Leonora, Detailing the Celebration of Passover at a Confederate Encampment in Adam’s Run, South Carolina, April 24, 1864
JEWS AND RECONSTRUCTION
Isaac M. Wise, “On to Richmond,” Describing Conditions in the Reconstruction South, the Israelite, June 28, 1867
Double Lynching of a Jew and a Negro, the Israelite, August 28, 1868
Benjamin F. Peixotto, U.S. Consul in Romania, to President Ulysses S. Grant, Denying Accusations “of a Scandalous Character” Leveled against His Person, November 6, 1871
RELIGION
Morris Raphall, “The Bible View of Slavery: A Discourse,” a Defense of Slavery by a Northern Rabbi, January 4, 1861
David Einhorn’s Response to Raphall, Offering a Baltimore Rabbi’s Opposition to Slavery, Sinai, 1861
Petition from American Jews to the U.S. Senate and House, on the Chaplaincy Issue, 1861 or 1862
Rabbi Kalisch to U.S. Congress, regarding the Chaplaincy Issue, December 9, 1861
Rev. Arnold Fischel to Mr. Henry I. Hart, President of the Board of Delegates of American Israelites, December 11, 1861
Isaac Leeser to Abraham Lincoln, Requesting the Commissioning of Jewish Chaplains, August 21, 1862
Letter from the U.S. Surgeon General Opposing the Commissioning of Jewish Chaplains in Washington, D.C., October 27, 1862
Excerpt from Isidor Straus’s Memoirs, 1862–1863
CHAPTER 5. THE GILDED AGE AND PROGRESSIVE ERA: AMERICAN JEWISH LIFE, 1880–1918
IMMIGRANT LIFE IN THE OLD AND THE NEW COUNTRY
Letter to the Editor, Urging Eastern European Jews Not to Emigrate, Ha-Magid, May 3, 1882
Abraham Cahan’s Impressions upon Arrival in the United States, “Imaginary America,” 1882
Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus,” 1883
H. L. Sabsovich, “The Woodbine Settlement of the Baron de Hirsch Fund,” Describing the Creation of a Jewish Agricultural Settlement in New Jersey, 1891
Constitution of the United States and Declaration of Independence; cover, in English and Yiddish, 1892
Mary Antin, Selection Describing the Author’s Journey to the United States, From Plotzk to Boston, 1899
Baseball, Forward, August 27, 1909
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Cover of the Jewish Immigrant, January 1909
Creation of the New York Jewish Federation by the State of New York, May 15, 1917
GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, AND CIVIC STATUS
Revised Words to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Written by HIAS for an Event Honoring the Election of Moses Alexander as Governor of Idaho, 1915
BUSINESS AND LABOR
Julia Richman, Selection from “New York’s East European Working Women,” 1893
Morris Winchevsky, “A Socialist Parodies the Ten Commandments,” 1895
“Women as Wage Earners,” Ordens Echo, 1897
The Protocol of Peace, Ending the 1910 Cloak Makers’ Strike, New York City, 1910
Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, March 1911
“The Big Stick,” regarding the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, April 7, 1911
Rose Schneiderman, Selection regarding Labor Relations in the Early Twentieth Century and the Shirtwaist Fire, All for One, 1967
RELIGION
Menu, “Trefa Banquet,” July 11, 1883
The Pittsburgh Platform, 1885
The Preamble and Article II of the Constitution of the Jewish Theological Seminary, May 9, 1886
Ray Frank, “What a Jewish Girl Would Not Do If She Were a Rabbi,” May 23, 1890
Cyrus Adler, Selection from “A Jewish Renaissance,” the American Hebrew, November 9, 1894
Principles Adopted by the [Orthodox] Jewish Congregational Union of America, June 8, 1898
Elkan C. Voorsanger, “Passover Services in France,” Emanu-El, May 3, 1918
FAMILY LIFE
Martha Thal, Selections from Early Days: The Story of Sarah Thal, on Life in a Pioneer Farmer Family in North Dakota, ca. 1880
“Bintel Brief,” on Intermarriage, Forward, 1906
Emma Goldman to Margaret Sanger on Birth Control, December 7, 1915
“A New Supplication for a Woman Whose Husband Has Deserted Her,” 1916
ZIONISM
Selection regarding American Zionism from Zvi Hirsch Masliansky’s Memoirs, ca. 1895
Isaac Mayer Wise’s Rejection of Zionism, Central Conference of American Rabbis, July 6, 1897
Moses Descending with the Ten Commandments into Yosemite Valley, Congregation Sherith Israel, San Francisco, 1905
Louis Brandeis, “The Jewish Problem: How to Solve It” (Excerpt), April 25, 1915
ANTISEMITISM
Simon Wolf, “Kishineff—An Appeal,” Jewish Criterion, May 22, 1903
“The Mass Meeting,” Pertaining to the Kishinev Pogrom, Jewish Criterion, June 12, 1903
“Bintel Brief,” Letter from an Immigrant Experiencing Antisemitism, Forward, 1907
Police Commissioner Theodore A. Bingham, Selection from “Foreign Criminals in New York,” September 1908
Leo Frank to C. P. Connolly, Discussing the Murder Notes and How These Might Demonstrate His Innocence, March 11, 1915
Leo Frank, August 1915
Leo Frank, n.d.
JEWISH AID, RELIEF, AND PHILANTHROPY
Resolution Founding the National Council of Jewish Women, September 7, 1893
Louis Marshall to Joseph Stolz, Organizing the American Jewish Committee, January 12, 1906
Jacob Schiff to President Taft on the Mistreatment of Jews in Russia, February 20, 1911
CHAPTER 6. AMERICAN JEWS BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS, 1918–1941
GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, AND CIVIC STATUS
Relief Expenditures of Fifty-Two Jewish Family Welfare Agencies, 1929–1935
Isaac Rubinow, “What Do We Owe Peter Stuyvesant?” 1930
“New NRA Compliance Director Blends Efficiency and Beauty,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, December 9, 1934
BUSINESS AND LABOR
Judah L. Magnes, Address Delivered at the Opening Session of the First Jewish Labor Congress, January 16, 1919
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Statement Supporting Organized Labor, September 1, 1919
Religion
Louis Marshall to Elias A. Cohen, January 25, 1923
“Yeshiva to Erect Modern College Buildings,” Jewish Tribune, September 26, 1924
Bernard Revel, “The Vision of Yeshiva College,” 1926
Conference for the Discussion of the Problem of Judaism, Chicago, February 21– 22, 1928
Rabbi Israel H. Levinthal to Jacob Rader Marcus on the Rabbinic Training of Helen Hadassah, 1939
POPULAR CULTURE
Edgar A. Guest, “Speaking of Greenberg,” 1934
INTERFAITH AND INTERGROUP RELATIONS
Constitution and By-Laws of the Synagogue Council of America, 1926
The Story of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1928
ZIONISM
Broadside, Zionist Organization of America, Early 1920s
Henrietta Szold, Familiar Letters from Palestine, December 21, 1921
Statement Acknowledging Increasing Support for Zionism, Central Conference of American Rabbis, June 1935
Excerpts from the “Guiding Principles of Reform Judaism,” Central Conference of American Rabbis, Forty-Eighth Annual Convention, May 27, 1937, Columbus, Ohio
“Official Declaration of the Rabbinical Assembly,” June 7–9, 1937
Labor Zionist Handbook, Poale Zion/Zeire Zion of America, 1939
ANTISEMITISM
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, “Henry Ford’s Challenge and a Jew’s Reply,” October 10, 1920
“The Scope of Jewish Dictatorship in the U.S.,” Dearborn Independent, December 11, 1920
A. Lawrence Lowell to Judge Julian Mack, on Jewish Quotas at Harvard College, March 29, 1922
“Kaplan” Page in The Lucky Bag Yearbook, United States Naval Academy, 1922
Letter from West Virginia Senator Howard Sutherland to President Harding, June 1922
“The Declaration of Independence Addressed the World,” Der Tog, July 4, 1924
Arthur M. Kaplan, “Are Medical Colleges Unfair to Jewish Students?” Jewish Tribune, August 1, 1930
“Memorandum on Nazi Activities in the United States,” Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, 1936
American Nazi Parade, New York City, 1937
Excerpts from the Speech of Rep. Samuel L. Dickstein, Delivered before the National Convention of the Anti-Nazi League, May 22, 1938
“Persecution—Jewish and Christian,” Broadcast by Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, November 20, 1938
Stephen S. Wise, “Coughlinism, Jews and America,” December 4, 1938
Charles Lindbergh, Des Moines Speech, September 11, 1941
JEWISH AID, RELIEF, AND PHILANTHROPY
Louis Marshall to President Woodrow Wilson, Requesting Support for European Jews after World War I, August 6, 1919
President Wilson to Marshall, Rejecting the Request, August 14, 1919
Report on the Joint Distribution Committee’s Efforts to Purchase Farmland for Russian Jews, Dr. Joseph A. Rosen, 1925
“$67,000,000 Spent in 40 Countries by the JDC since 1914 to Rebuild Lives and Souls of Stricken Jews,” 1927
Stephen S. Wise, Addressing a Mass Meeting Held at Madison Square Garden, March 27, 1933
Abba Hillel Silver to Samuel Wohl, Opposing a Proposal to Bring German-Jewish Children to Palestine, November 26, 1934
Jewish War Veterans Ladies’ Auxiliaries, “Naziism Is Spreading and So Must Our Boycott Activities,” ca. 1938
Letter from Abraham Joshua Heschel to Dr. Julian Morgenstern, April 30, 1939
Letter from Morgenstern to Heschel, July 5, 1939
CHAPTER 7. WAGING WAR: AMERICAN JEWS, WORLD WAR II, AND THE SHOAH, 1941–1945
GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, AND CIVIC STATUS
Hitler Poster, “Wanted for Murder,” 1941
Distribution of Jewish Servicemen by Branches and Activities, 1941–1945
Irving Berlin, Lyrics, “This Is the Army, Mr. Jones,” 1942
Passover Observed by Armed Forces, 1943
Lt. Dick Gottlieb, Affidavit, Recounting His Experience Liberating the Dachau Concentration Camp near Landsberg, Germany, April 1945
INTERFAITH AND INTERGROUP RELATIONS
John J. Mahoney to Chaplain S. Joshua Kohn, regarding the February 3, 1943, Sinking of the USS Dorchester, December 7, 1944
U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating Clergy Who Died in the Sinking of the USS Dorchester, 1948
THE HOLOCAUST AND ZIONISM
“Statement of Principles by Non-Zionist Rabbis,” American Council for Judaism, August 12, 1942
Telegram from Gerhart Riegner (via Samuel Silverman) to Stephen S. Wise, August 29, 1942
Letter from Stephen S. Wise to Franklin D. Roosevelt, December 2, 1942
Sumner Welles to Stephen S. Wise, February 9, 1943
We Will Never Die Program, Memorializing the Slaughtered Jews in Europe and Commemorating Jewish Contributions to Civilization, March 9, 1943
Report on Attempts to Stage We Will Never Die, Early 1944
Max Lerner, “What about the Jews, FDR?” July 22, 1943
Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, Selection from “Zionism: What It Is—What It Is Not,” ca. 1944
“Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews,” Treasury Department, January 13, 1944
Franklin Roosevelt Establishes a War Refugee Board, January 22, 1944
Jewish Refugees at Emergency Shelter, Fort Ontario, August 4, 1944
Leland Robinson et al. to President Harry Truman, Requesting U.S. Citizenship for Refugees Housed at Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York, October 22, 1945
Poster Urging American Jews to Support the United Jewish Appeal Campaign, n.d.
ANTISEMITISM
Chart, Domestic Antisemitism, 1940–1946
Activities of Antisemitic and Antidemocratic Groups in the United States, American Jewish Congress, April 2, 1943
Chart, World Jewry before and after the War, 1939–1945
CHAPTER 8. AMERICAN JEWISH LIFE, 1945–1965
IMMIGRATION AND ADAPTATION
Levittown (Pa.) Resident Reflects on His Community, 1950s
Income Levels and Religious Affiliation in Levittown, 1950s
“NCRAC Discusses Decline in Jewish Population in Cities,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, June 22, 1955
GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, AND CIVIC STATUS
Phineas J. Biron, “Portrait of an Informer,” Israel Light, December 31, 1947
Preface to the Transcript of Record (June 7, 1952) Provided by the National Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case
Flyer for Clemency, Rosenberg Case, May 30, 1953
“Meaning of the [Rosenberg] Execution,” Jewish Life, August 1953
Soviet Cable Incriminating Julius Rosenberg, September 21, 1944
RELIGION
Maurice L. Zigmond, Selection from “Brandeis University Is One Year Old,” 1949
Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, Selection from “Living Judaism,” Delivered at the Dedication of the New UAHC Headquarters, October 27, 1951
Beth Sholom Synagogue, Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1953
Image from the American Jewish Tercentenary Filmstrip, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1954
Menachem Schneerson, “In Orthodoxy the Woman Is Not Inferior,” May 27, 1957
“Ufaratzta!” A Programmatic Statement Delivered by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem M. Schneerson, 1959
Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, “Letter on the Question of Prayer in the Public Schools,” 1964
FAMILY LIFE
Mrs. Allen I. Edles, Selection from “The American Jewish Woman of Tomorrow,” 1958
POPULAR CULTURE
Bess Myerson, “Miss America Speaks to Young America,” Jewish Veteran, 1945
INTERFAITH AND INTERGROUP RELATIONS
Selection from “A Statement by Stephen S. Wise to a U.S. Senate Education Sub-Committee,” April 1947
Rabbi Julian B. Feibelman, “Petition to the Orleans Parish School Board,” September 12, 1955
Rabbi Jacob Rothschild, “No Place to Hide,” Southern Israelite, August 1963
Rabbi William Malev, “The Jew of the South in the Conflict on Segregation,” Conservative Judaism, 1958
Selection from an Address by South Carolina Speaker of the House Solomon Blatt to the Hebrew Benevolent Society of Charleston, April 6, 1959
Selection from an Open Letter from Rabbi Richard W. Winograd to the National Director of B’nai B’rith, 1963
Selection from a Speech Delivered by Rabbi Joachim Prinz at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963
March on Washington, August 28, 1963
Search for Civil Rights Workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, 1964
Selection from Oral History Interview with Kivie Kaplan, regarding His Entrance into Civil Rights Work and His Election as President of the NAACP, 1970
ZIONISM
President Harry S. Truman, Recognition of the State of Israel, May 14, 1948
Exchange between David Ben-Gurion and Jacob Blaustein on the Relationship between American Jews and the State of Israel, August 1950
JEWISH AID, RELIEF, AND PHILANTHROPY
“Major U.S. Jewish Groups Appeal for Equal Rights for Soviet Jews,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, September 29, 1960
“UN Told Russia Denies Universal Declaration of Human Rights to Jews,” Jewish Criterion, November 18, 1960
“Khrushchev Talks about Soviet Jews,” Jewish Criterion, March 31, 1961
“Soviet Mistreatment of Jews Attacked in Both Houses of U.S. Congress,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, January 25, 1962
ANTISEMITISM
American Jewish Committee, 1945, 1950–1959, Chart, Antisemitism in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s
“No Anti-Jewish Bias Exists in New York College Admission Study Shows,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, July 27, 1959
CHAPTER 9. TURNING INWARD: JEWS AND AMERICAN LIFE, 1965–1980
GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, AND CIVIC STATUS
Betty Friedan, “A Comfortable Concentration Camp?” 1963
Norman Podhoretz, “My Negro Problem and Ours,” Commentary, February 1963
Michael Wyschogrod, Selection from “The Jewish Interest in Vietnam,” Tradition, Winter 1966
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Selection from “The Moral Outrage of Vietnam,” January 31, 1967
“Radical Saul Alinsky: Prophet of Power to the People,” Time, March 2, 1970
Jewish Defense League Ten-Point Program, n.d.
Zvi Lowenthal and Jonathan Braun, “An Interview with Meir Kahane,” 1971
Jewish Defense League Flyer, n.d.
Jo Ann Levine, “A Woman’s Place Is in the House,” Christian Science Monitor, June 28, 1972
Arthur Hertzberg and David G. Epstein, “Jewish Political Trend . . . ,”Los Angeles Times, May 24, 1984
Proposed Mission Statement of New Jewish Agenda, 1987
New Jewish Agenda Promotional Flyer: Some Examples of Our Work, n.d.
RELIGION
“Depaul University, a Catholic Institution, Opens Full Department of Jewish Studies,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, September 4, 1968
“Jewish Students Launch Drive for Judaic Studies Departments in City University System,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, December 9, 1970
Sylvia Rothchild, “Havurat Shalom: Community without Conformity,” Hadassah, June 1970
Bernard Reisman, “The Impact of the Havurah,” Jewish Digest, Summer 1978
Ezrat Nashim, “Jewish Women Call for Change,” 1972
“The First American Woman Rabbi,” Reflections by Rabbi Sally Priesand, 1972–1975
“Jewish Women’s Mag Lilith Hits the Stands,” Jewish Chronicle, July 15, 1976
INTERFAITH AND INTERGROUP RELATIONS
“Sharp Decline Reported in Anti-Jewish Bias in Winter Resorts,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, August 6, 1965
Statement for Release by Black and Jewish Organizations, August 28, 1979
NAACP Head Benjamin Hooks, Speech on Civil Rights, American Jews, and the Palestine Liberation Organization, 1979
Advertisement, “Jews against Jackson,” New York Times, November 11, 1983
POPULAR CULTURE
Philip Roth, Selection from “Writing about Jews,” 1963
Robert Alter, “Malamud as Jewish Writer,” Commentary, September 1966
Saul Bellow, “I Said That I Was an American, a Jew, a Writer by Trade,” November 14, 1976
Allan Sherman, Lyrics, “If I Were a Tishman,” 1967
ZIONISM
“Half of All Americans Register Support for Israel; No American Backs Arabs,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, June 12, 1967
Milton K. Susman, “As I See It,” Jewish Chronicle, June 16, 1967
“The Portrait of Courage: The People Made Israel Victorious,” Jewish Chronicle, June 16, 1967
“The Week That Rocked the World,” June 5–11, Jewish Chronicle, June 16, 1967
Breira’s National Platform, February 21, 1977
JEWISH AID, RELIEF, AND PHILANTHROPY
Jackson-Vanik Amendment, 1974
Poster of Anatoly Sharansky, n.d.
CHAPTER 10. CONTEMPORARY AMERICA: JEWISH LIFE SINCE 1980
IMMIGRATION AND ADAPTATION
Kevin West, “The Persian Conquest,” W, July 2009
Saba Soomekh, American Jewish University, “The Political Emergence of the Los Angeles Persian Community,” 2010
GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, AND CIVIC STATUS
Vision and Mission Statements, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1993
“Gore’s Choice for Veep Electrifies American Jews,” Forward, August 11, 2000
“Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Senator Joseph Lieberman,” Democratic National Convention, August 16, 2000
Global Anti-Semitism Review Act, October 8, 2004
RELIGION
Selections, Mandell L. Berman Institute—North American Jewish Data Bank, n.d.
Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, “To the Board of Directors of the New York Federation of Reform Synagogues,” March 3, 1983
Report of the Committee on Patrilineal Descent, Central Conference of American Rabbis, March 15, 1983
Rabbis Joel Roth and Akiba Lubow, A Standard of Rabbinic Practice regarding Determination of Jewish Identity, 1986
Press Release, Ezrat Nashim, October 24, 1983
Rabbi David Weiss Halivni, Letter to the Faculty Assembly of the Jewish Theological Seminary, 1983
Judith S. Antonelli, “Jewish Feminisms Explore Torah, God, and Sexuality,” Jewish Advocate, January 25, 1991
Mission Statement of the Society for Humanistic Judaism, October 8, 1999
Charles Passy, “Debbie Friedman Is a Troubadour of Faith; Synagogues Ring with Folk,” Palm Beach Post, December 6, 2004
Oren Lee-Parritz, “Synaplex: A Creative Response to a Decline in Synagogue Identification,” Jewish Post, ca. 2007
Haviva Ner-David, “Breaking the Glass Mehitza,” Hadassah, May 2004
Josh Nathan-Kazis, “In Dispute over Using ‘Rabba,’ Supporters Find Reason for Optimism,” Forward, March 10, 2010
Tamar Snyder, “Beyond the Rabba-Rousing,” Jewish Week, March 24, 2010
Camille Shira Angel, “Rabbi’s Welcome” and Selections from Siddur Sha’ar Zahav, 2009
ZIONISM
Amanda Carpenter, “J Street Pro-Israel Lobby Takes on AIPAC, Alienates Backers,” Washington Times, October 21, 2009
Alan M. Dershowitz, “Boycotting Israeli Universities: A Victory for Bigotry,” Haaretz, December 17, 2013
POPULAR CULTURE
Mission Statement, JDate, 1997
Paulette Kouffman Sherman, “Eight Love Lessons from the Festival of Light,” December 8, 2013
Jonathan Miller, “How Adam Sandler’s ‘Chanukah Song’ Helped Save the Jews,” Huffington Post, December 23, 2011
AMERICAN JEWISH LIFE: TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY DEVELOPMENTS
Tri-Faith Initiative of Omaha, Nebraska, May 2010
The Adventure Rabbi Program, 2012
“Moishe House a Place to Call Home,” March 20, 2013
Presidential Proclamation—Jewish American Heritage Month, May 2013
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