American Jewish History

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Latest documents

• Hideous Characters & Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage.
• Borrowed Voices: Writing & Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination.
• 'The Fabulous Irishman': Lord Mayor Robert Briscoe's 'Unusual Religious and National Combination' in Cold War America.
• Who Will Lead Us?: The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America.
• 'The Whole Air of Exile Is Yours': Modern Inquisitorial Fiction and the Facts of the Early (Latin) American Jewish Experience.
• State of the Field: New Directions for American Jewish Migration Histories.
• Hollywood's Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles.
• The Implacable Urge to Defame: Cartoon Jews in the American Press, 1877-1935.
• Building a Home for the Past: Archives and the Geography of American Jewish History.
• Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World.

Featured documents

• The American friends of the Alliance Israelite Universelle: a study in American-Jewish Intraethnic Relations, 1947-2004.
• The American Soviet Jewry Movement's 'Uneventful' 1968: Cold War Liberalism, Human Interest, and the Politics of the Long Haul.
• American exception? William Eaton and early national antisemitism.
• Heimat and Home: Mobility Among Jews in Quincy, Illinois.
• A Preacher in Exile: Shemaryahu Levin and the Making of American Zionism, 1914-1919.
• Reframing Holocaust Testimony.
• The Agudah and 'Der Baal Tshuva': the Agudath Israel World Organization, politicized orthodoxy and the interwar American Jewish Community.
• Beyond synagogues and cemeteries: the built environment as an aspect of vernacular Jewish material culture in Charleston, South Carolina.
• Seventeen months in the president's chair: Morris Abram, black-Jewish relations and the anatomy of a failed presidency.
• Equating Zionism with racism: the 1965 precedent.