American Jewish History

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Latest documents

• Policing the Jewish Quarter: Progressive Law Enforcement and Jewish Vigilantism in the Age of Mass Migration, 1900-1920.
• Wasserman Prize.
• A Hundred Acres of America: The Geography of Jewish American Literary History.
• Global Jewish Foodways: A History.
• Making Judaism Safe for America: World War I and the Origins of Religious Pluralism.
• The Integration of Jewish Refugees from Shanghai into Post-World War II San Francisco.
• Whose Jewishness? Inbal Dance Theater and Cold War American Spectatorship.
• Jewish Genetic Potency: The Meaning of Jewish Ancestry in the 21st-Century United States.
• The Soul of Judaism: Jews of African Descent in America.
• Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel 1896-2016.

Featured documents

• Breaking the Taboo: Investigating the Complex History of Jews and the American Economy.
• Lee Max Friedman Award-Lecture.
• On Middle Ground: A History of the Jews of Baltimore.
• Beyond synagogues and cemeteries: the built environment as an aspect of vernacular Jewish material culture in Charleston, South Carolina.
• The American Soviet Jewry Movement's 'Uneventful' 1968: Cold War Liberalism, Human Interest, and the Politics of the Long Haul.
• Equating Zionism with racism: the 1965 precedent.
• Annie Jonas Wells: Jewish daughter, Episcopal wife, independent intellectual.
• 'Girded for the Superhuman Task': American Jews and the Trope of the Zionist Pioneer, 1925-1956.
• 'How it will end, the blessed God knows': a reading of Jewish correspondence during the revolutionary war era.
• Seventeen months in the president's chair: Morris Abram, black-Jewish relations and the anatomy of a failed presidency.