But with Meeks’s help, Taylor hit upon a winning formula and also benefitted from a rapidly expanding children’s book market. Her first book was enormously successful, becoming a bestseller and earning critical acclaim. She went on to publish four more All-of-a-Kind Family books as well as a handful of other books for children. Two All-of-a-Kind books that Taylor had difficulty publishing in the 1950s because of their more realistic descriptions of hardships were later accepted in the 1970s. Taylor was not especially observant as a Jew. She and Ralph were initially married in a civil ceremony, but Taylor’s father Morris insisted that the couple have a proper Jewish wedding, and so they lived apart for two years until finally having a Jewish wedding. They were married for fifty years, until Taylor’s death. Their daughter, Jo, was raised in contexts that were more progressive than Jewish per se, attending the Bank Street Nursery School and the Little Red Schoolhouse in New York and the artsy-lefty Buck’s Rock summer camp (Jo needed to find a space for herself away from Camp Cejwin, where all the Brenner sisters worked). All in all, Cummins tells the story of a pioneering author who was also very much a human being, with flaws, biases, and weaknesses. This book was a labor of love for Cummins, who was writing it until her untimely death in 2018 from ALS. Alexandra Dunietz made revisions to the draft that Cummins managed to complete and prepared the manuscript for publication. The resulting book is a great tribute to Cummins as well as Taylor.
{"title":"Nazi and Holocaust Representations in Anglo-American Popular Culture, 1945-2020: Irreverent Remembrance by Jeffrey Demsky (review)","authors":"P. Lassner","doi":"10.1353/ajh.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajh.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"But with Meeks’s help, Taylor hit upon a winning formula and also benefitted from a rapidly expanding children’s book market. Her first book was enormously successful, becoming a bestseller and earning critical acclaim. She went on to publish four more All-of-a-Kind Family books as well as a handful of other books for children. Two All-of-a-Kind books that Taylor had difficulty publishing in the 1950s because of their more realistic descriptions of hardships were later accepted in the 1970s. Taylor was not especially observant as a Jew. She and Ralph were initially married in a civil ceremony, but Taylor’s father Morris insisted that the couple have a proper Jewish wedding, and so they lived apart for two years until finally having a Jewish wedding. They were married for fifty years, until Taylor’s death. Their daughter, Jo, was raised in contexts that were more progressive than Jewish per se, attending the Bank Street Nursery School and the Little Red Schoolhouse in New York and the artsy-lefty Buck’s Rock summer camp (Jo needed to find a space for herself away from Camp Cejwin, where all the Brenner sisters worked). All in all, Cummins tells the story of a pioneering author who was also very much a human being, with flaws, biases, and weaknesses. This book was a labor of love for Cummins, who was writing it until her untimely death in 2018 from ALS. Alexandra Dunietz made revisions to the draft that Cummins managed to complete and prepared the manuscript for publication. The resulting book is a great tribute to Cummins as well as Taylor.","PeriodicalId":43104,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY","volume":"106 1","pages":"207 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43629711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical by Shaul Magid (review)","authors":"Michael E. Staub","doi":"10.1353/ajh.2022.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajh.2022.0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43104,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY","volume":"106 1","pages":"214 - 216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42114600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration: The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund by Frank Wolff (review)","authors":"G. Estraikh","doi":"10.1353/ajh.2022.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajh.2022.0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43104,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY","volume":"106 1","pages":"220 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41578896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bruce L. Ruben, Julia L. Mickenberg, Mira Katzburg-Yungman, M. K. Bauman, Samantha M. Cooper, Phyllis Lassner, C. Fink, S. Reinharz, Michael E. Staub, T. Kushner, Andrew Porwancher, G. Estraikh, Oren Kroll-Zeldin, M. Miller
In the mid-nineteenth century, a group of immigrant rabbis, including Isaac Mayer Wise and Max Lilienthal, believed that they could unite the majority of American Jews around moderate Reform. In the 1870s, after decades of effort, they succeeded, and they established the enduring institutions of Reform Judaism: the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Hebrew Union College, and, ultimately, the Central Conference of American Rabbis. To achieve this unity, Wise and Lilienthal used elements of the Viennese Rite, particularly the music of Salomon Sulzer. The Viennese Rite had developed in the early nineteenth century when Isaac Noah Mannheimer and Sulzer, his cantor, unified the polarized Viennese community through a moderate liturgy, increased decorum, and a new musical treatment of nusach Ashkenaz (a local chant tradition). Its leaders successfully found a middle way between the advocates of radical reform from Berlin and Hamburg and the traditionalists, who wanted nothing changed. I will argue that this moderate reform approach was transferred from Europe and successfully adapted in mid-nineteenth century America. In 1976, Leon Jick challenged the view that rabbinic elites created American Reform in his important book, The Americanization of the Synagogue. It was Americanization that was the basis for the success of Reform Judaism in America. Only after Jews had learned English, climbed the socioeconomic ladder, and adapted to local norms did they create a Reform Judaism that matched their new American values. Reform came
{"title":"The Viennese Rite and American Moderate Reform Judaism","authors":"Bruce L. Ruben, Julia L. Mickenberg, Mira Katzburg-Yungman, M. K. Bauman, Samantha M. Cooper, Phyllis Lassner, C. Fink, S. Reinharz, Michael E. Staub, T. Kushner, Andrew Porwancher, G. Estraikh, Oren Kroll-Zeldin, M. Miller","doi":"10.1353/ajh.2022.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajh.2022.0016","url":null,"abstract":"In the mid-nineteenth century, a group of immigrant rabbis, including Isaac Mayer Wise and Max Lilienthal, believed that they could unite the majority of American Jews around moderate Reform. In the 1870s, after decades of effort, they succeeded, and they established the enduring institutions of Reform Judaism: the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Hebrew Union College, and, ultimately, the Central Conference of American Rabbis. To achieve this unity, Wise and Lilienthal used elements of the Viennese Rite, particularly the music of Salomon Sulzer. The Viennese Rite had developed in the early nineteenth century when Isaac Noah Mannheimer and Sulzer, his cantor, unified the polarized Viennese community through a moderate liturgy, increased decorum, and a new musical treatment of nusach Ashkenaz (a local chant tradition). Its leaders successfully found a middle way between the advocates of radical reform from Berlin and Hamburg and the traditionalists, who wanted nothing changed. I will argue that this moderate reform approach was transferred from Europe and successfully adapted in mid-nineteenth century America. In 1976, Leon Jick challenged the view that rabbinic elites created American Reform in his important book, The Americanization of the Synagogue. It was Americanization that was the basis for the success of Reform Judaism in America. Only after Jews had learned English, climbed the socioeconomic ladder, and adapted to local norms did they create a Reform Judaism that matched their new American values. Reform came","PeriodicalId":43104,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY","volume":"106 1","pages":"113 - 142 - 143 - 175 - 177 - 201 - 203 - 205 - 205 - 207 - 207 - 210 - 210 - 211 - 212 - 214 - 214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43222868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jessica L. Carr’s highly analytic book aims at understanding Jewish Americans’ self-image from the beginning of the twentieth century up to the Second World War through their visual culture of the “Hebrew Orient,” the term she uses for Jewish Americans’ view of Palestine. The author assumes that the self-image is well reflected through viewing others and aims to explore multiple self-images and identities, particularly in terms of cultural and gender identities. A broad systematic introduction depicting the analytic approach of the author explains the aims, major terms, and concepts used in the book. It is here that the term “visual culture” is defined as “everything that the eye can see, as well as mental processes brought at the moment of seeing” (13). The book is full of illustrations, photographs, and other images presented and analyzed in depth. Chapter 1, “ ‘The Orient’ as Jewish Heritage” discusses the book’s key term “Hebrew (or Jewish) Orient” in vast detail. The author highlights the “Hebrew Orient” as a tool to reveal American Jews’ cultural self-image through viewing their understanding of their “Hebrew Oriental” Jewish heritage and the contemporary inhabitants (pioneers, Mizrahim, and Arabs) of Palestine. This is the raison d’être of the author’s preference for using the term Hebrew Orient rather than Palestine. Carr acknowledges her inability to include all Jewish American groups of the time under examination (1901-1938) and consequently decided to choose five representatives, or case studies. The book’s chapters are constructed accordingly: Chapter Two explores the Orientalist visual culture of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA—initially, the Federation of American Zionists) as reflected in its publications. The third chapter explores the visual culture of the “Hebrew Orient” of the Reform National Federation of Temple Sisterhood (NFTS) through the lens of the NFTS’s chapter conferences, yearbooks, letters, posters, and newsletters. Here and in other places in the book the author exceeds her declared aim and reaches additional valuable conclusions. In this case she analyzes among other things how the organization’s women “created a new space for themselves in the practice of Reform Judaism without challenging traditional roles of men” (25). Chapter Four focuses
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{"title":"From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family by June Cummins (review)","authors":"Julia L. Mickenberg","doi":"10.1353/ajh.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajh.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43104,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY","volume":"106 1","pages":"205 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46367432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emma Goldman, An Anarchist at the Opera","authors":"Samantha M. Cooper","doi":"10.1353/ajh.2022.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajh.2022.0020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43104,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY","volume":"106 1","pages":"113 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43891348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah by Dvora Hacohen (review)","authors":"S. Reinharz","doi":"10.1353/ajh.2022.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajh.2022.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43104,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY","volume":"106 1","pages":"212 - 214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47988580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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