American Jewish History

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Latest documents

• 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.
• American Jewry: A New History.
• A Preacher in Exile: Shemaryahu Levin and the Making of American Zionism, 1914-1919.
• Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism.
• 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.

Featured documents

• Jews and the Fur Trade along the Southern British Colonial Borderlands.
• Transplanted into new soil: activities of the European Jewish Children's Aid with young Holocaust survivors, 1945-1953.
• d. a. levy and the Cleveland Jewish Counterculture of the 1960s.
• Rarely Kosher: studying Jews of Color in North America.
• Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball.
• 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.
• Annie Jonas Wells: Jewish daughter, Episcopal wife, independent intellectual.
• Editor's introduction.
• 'How it will end, the blessed God knows': a reading of Jewish correspondence during the revolutionary war era.