New Mexico, Ava F. Kahn 155
Jews in Small Towns in America, Ewa Morawska 156
Jewish Agricultural Colonies, Ellen Eisenberg 162
Jews in Suburbia, Etan Diamond 165
5
Antisemitism in America
Antisemitism in American Literature before 1960,
Robert Michael 169
Leo Max Frank (1884–1915), Stephen J. Goldfarb 175
Henry Ford and the Jews, Neil Baldwin 180
Antisemitic Violence in Boston and New York during
World War II, Stephen H. Norwood 187
Antisemitism and Right-Wing Extremist Groups
after 1960, John George 189
African American Antisemitism in the 1990s,
Eunice G. Pollack 195
The Crown Heights Riot, Edward S. Shapiro 200
6
Zionism in America
American Zionism to the Founding of the
State of Israel, Melvin I. Urofsky 203
Revisionist Zionism in America, Rafael Medoff 208
Golda Meir (1898–1978), Michael Alexander 212
Marie Syrkin (1899–1989), Ranen Omer-Sherman 214
7
The Holocaust and America
America’s Response to Nazism and the Holocaust,
David S. Wyman and Rafael Medoff 217
Holocaust Survivors and Their Children in
America, Eva Fogelman 224
The Making of the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum, Edward T. Linenthal 228
Meyer Levin (1905–1981), Ralph Melnick 231
8
Jewish Organizations
The Workmen’s Circle, Jack Jacobs 235
The Jewish War Veterans of the United States of
America, Stephen H. Norwood 238
The American Jewish Committee, Jerome A. Chanes 240
The Anti-Defamation League, Abraham H. Foxman 242
The American Jewish Congress, Jerome A. Chanes 248
The Jewish Labor Committee, Gail Malmgreen 251
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, Harold Brackman 256
9
Jews and the Press
The Early Yiddish Press in the United States,
Tony Michels 261
Abraham Cahan (1860–1951), Gerald Sorin 268
The American Jewish Press, Donald Altschiller 271
10
American Jews in Political
and Social Movements
American Jews in Politics in the Twentieth Century,
Benjamin Ginsberg 277
American Jewish Involvement in Public Affairs,
Jerome A. Chanes 281
American Jews in the Socialist and Communist
Movements, Gerald Sorin 283
The Rosenberg Case, Henry D. Fetter 290
Jewish Anarchism in America, Ori Kritz 297
Commentary and the Origins of Neoconservatism,
Henry D. Fetter 300
Jewish Women in the American Feminist
Movement, June Sochen 307
Emma Goldman (1869–1940), Candace Falk 310
Meyer London (1871–1926), Gerald Sorin 313
Henry Kissinger (b. 1923), Michael Alexander 316
11
Jews in Wars
and the Military
Jews and the Civil War, Larry M. Logue 321
American Jews and World War I,
Christopher M. Sterba 326
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