TOC: American Jewish History, Volume 101, Issue 2

H-Judaic TOC: American Jewish History, Volume 101, Issue 2

Discussion published by Nick Underwood on Sunday, May 7, 2017

We are pleased to announce the publicaton of the latest issue of American Jewish History, Volume 101, Issue 2, Spring 2017, published jointly by Johns Hopkins University Press and the American Jewish Historical Society.

For this special issue, guest-edited by Laura A. Leibman, professor of English and Humanities at Reed College, on Jewish American Material Culture, we have created digital content, which can found here. There you will find the transcript of an interview that Professor Leibman conducted with Karl Watson, retired Senior Lecturer of the University of the West Indies, former editor of the Journal of the Barbados Museum & Historical Society and former President of the National Trust of Barbados. The interview is entitled, "Rediscovering an Important Link to American Jewish History: Field Notes from the Nidhe Israel Synagogue Complex in Barbados."

Best regards, Nick Underwood, Managing Editor

Special Issue on Jewish American Material Culture

Guest Editor’s Introduction: Jewish American Material Culture

Laura A Liebman

"A Home between Death and Life: Mausoleums as Liminal Spaces of Memory for Classical Reform Jews of Temple Emanu-El, 1890–1945"

Sophia C. Lufkin

"The Lower East Side's Synagogue, Tenement, and Russian Bathhouse Mikva'ot and the Excavation of a Mikvah at 5 Allen Street"

Celia J. Bergoffen

"Beyond Synagogues and Cemeteries: The Built Environment as an Aspect of Vernacular Jewish Material Culture in Charleston, South Carolina"

Barry L. Stiefel

From the Archives: "Swan Street, formerly called Jew Street" (Barbados Jewish Community Collection)

Responses by Sarah Phillips Casteel & Barry L. Stiefel

General Articles

"The B'nai B'rith Encounters Nazi Germany, 1933"

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Robert Rockaway

"That Judaism Might Yet Live: Pastoral Care and the Making of the Post-Holocaust Conservative Rabbinate"

Benjamin Steiner

"Sulzerism, Sulzermania, and the Shaping of the American Cantorate"

Jonathan L. Friedmann

Book Reviews

The Stars and the Stripes: A History of the Foreign Policies of American Jews, by Michael N. Barnett, reviewed by Yael Aronoff

The Salome Ensemble: Rose Pastor Stokes, Anzia Yezierska, Sonia Levien, and Jetta Goudal, by Alan Ginsberg, reviewed by Lara Vapnek

Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Foods, by Roger Horowitz, reviewed by Ted Merwin

Modern Orthodoxy in American Judaism: The Era of Leo Jung, by Maxine Jacobson, reviewed by Adam S. Ferziger

Cartoonists against the Holocaust, by Rafael Medoff and Craig Yoe, reviewed by Tahneer Oksman

A History of Antisemitism in Canada, by Ira Robinson, reviewed by Leonard Dinnerstein

Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin, by Marlene Trestman, reviewed by Geraldine Gudefin