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American Jewish History

A scholarly journal covering every aspect of Jewish life in the United States. Feature articles are well-researched but written to be accessible to both academics and general readers. Content includes book reviews and occasional review essays. Some issues are devoted to a single topic. This is the official journal of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS).

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"They are slitting the throats of Jewish children": the 1906 New York ...
September 01, 2008

In Memoriam: Jonathan Frankel, 1935-2008.(In memoriam)
September 01, 2008

What the Rabbis Said: The Public Discourse of Nineteenth-Century Ameri...
September 01, 2008

Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity.(Book review)
September 01, 2008

Jews and Human Rights: Dancing at Three Weddings.(Book review)
September 01, 2008

Enforced Marginality: Jewish Narratives on Abandoned Wives.(Book revie...
September 01, 2008

Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America.(Book review)
September 01, 2008

Zion in the Desert: American Jews in Israel's Reform Kibbutzim.(Book r...
September 01, 2008

Back to School: Jewish Day School in the Lives of Adult Jews.(Book rev...
September 01, 2008

The Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in America.(Book review)
September 01, 2008

Ten Days of Birthright Israel: A Journey in Young Adult Identity.(Book...
September 01, 2008

Yiddish in America: Essays on Yiddish Culture in the Golden Land.(Book...
September 01, 2008

Trinity of Passion. The Literary Left and the Anti-Fascist Crusade.(Bo...
September 01, 2008

Jewish "Junior League": The Rise and Demise of the Fort Worth Council ...
September 01, 2008

Lone Stars of David: The Jews of Texas.(Book review)
September 01, 2008

Editor's introduction.(Editorial)
September 01, 2008

"No whisky Amazons in the tents of Israel": American Jews and the gild...
September 01, 2008

Not-quite-closed gates: Jewish alien smuggling in the post-quota years...
September 01, 2008

The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine.(Book re...
September 01, 2008

A Place of Our Own: The Rise of Jewish Camping.(Book review)
September 01, 2008

Jewish Organisations' Response to Communism and to Senator McCarthy.(B...
September 01, 2008

Louis Marshall: an American Jewish Diplomat in Paris, 1919.
March 01, 2008

Louis Marshall and the democratization of Jewish identity.
March 01, 2008

White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics and the Shaping of Postwar Poli...
March 01, 2008

Radio and the Jews: The Untold Story of How Radio Influenced America's...
March 01, 2008

Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics.(Book review)
March 01, 2008

Rabbis & Their Community: Studies in the Eastern European Orthodox Rab...
March 01, 2008

Russian Jews on Three Continents: Identity, Integration, and Conflict....
March 01, 2008

I Did It My Way: Women Remaking American Judaism.(Book review)
March 01, 2008

A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Am...
March 01, 2008

Covenant of Care: Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in Americ...
March 01, 2008

American Judaism in Popular Culture.(Book review)
March 01, 2008

Polish-Jewish Relations in North America, volume 19 of Polin: Studies ...
March 01, 2008

You Never Call! You Never Write!: A History of the Jewish Mother.(Book...
March 01, 2008

The Aristocrat and the Democrat: Louis Marshall, Stephen S. Wise and t...
March 01, 2008

Confronting antisemitism in America: Louis Marshall and Henry Ford.
March 01, 2008

Two Jewish lawyers named Louis.(Louis Brandeis, Louis Marshall)(Biogra...
March 01, 2008

Introduction.
March 01, 2008

Wives without Husbands: Marriage, Desertion, & Welfare in New York, 19...
December 01, 2007

"May a freethinker help a pious man?": the shared world of the "religi...
December 01, 2007

American Jews and the ambivalence of middle-classness.(Essay)
December 01, 2007

From the "Jerusalem of the Balkans" to the goldene medina: Jewish immi...
December 01, 2007

Jewish Art in America: An Introduction.(Encyclopedia of Jewish America...
December 01, 2007

The "Bergson Boys" and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy.(...
December 01, 2007

American Talmud: The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction.(Book re...
December 01, 2007

"Silent No More": Saving the Jews of Russia, The American Jewish Effor...
December 01, 2007

Inventing Great Neck: Jewish Identity and the American Dream.(Book rev...
December 01, 2007

Sliding to the Right: The Contest for the Future of American Jewish Or...
December 01, 2007

Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship.(Book review)
December 01, 2007

America and the Return of Nazi Contraband: The Recovery of Europe's Cu...
December 01, 2007

Eye on Israel: How America Came to View Israel as an Ally.(Book review...
December 01, 2007

Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer.(Book re...
December 01, 2007

Let Us Prove Strong: The American Jewish Committee, 1945-2006.(Book re...
December 01, 2007

Editor's introduction.(Editorial)
September 01, 2007

American Zionists' place in Israel after statehood: from involved part...
September 01, 2007

From Mashhad to New York: family and gender roles in the Mashhadi immi...
September 01, 2007

Socialist ideology, traditional rhetoric: images of women in American ...
September 01, 2007

The End of "Blacks and Jews".(Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relat...
September 01, 2007

Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: A History in the American ...
September 01, 2007

Commentary Magazine, 1945-59: "A Journal of Significant Thought and Op...
September 01, 2007

Beyond the Border: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad.(Book review)
September 01, 2007

Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen....
September 01, 2007

Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America.(Book review)
September 01, 2007

Ethnic American Literature: Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African-Ame...
September 01, 2007

The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping o...
September 01, 2007

Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book.(Bo...
September 01, 2007

Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust.(Book review)
September 01, 2007

Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History.(Jewish Roots ...
June 01, 2007

To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico.(B...
June 01, 2007

The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, ...
June 01, 2007

First Contact: Origins of the American-Israeli Connection, Halutzim fr...
June 01, 2007

Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History.(Book review)
June 01, 2007

Introduction.(Editorial)
June 01, 2007

Regionalism: the significance of place in American Jewish life.(Roundt...
June 01, 2007

Tevye on king street: Charleston and the translation of Sholem Aleiche...
June 01, 2007

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