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Neglected areas of American Jewish history at the Feinstein Center for American Jewish history. (In Pursuit of...).

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The Feinstein Center for American Jewish History was created twelve years ago at Temple University in Philadelphia. Working with consortiums of scholars as well as with individual researchers, the Center seeks to identify and to fill vacuums in the field of American Jewish history.

The Feinstein Center began by emphasizing the Philadelphia story. As thousands of Jewish immigrants poured into the country at the beginning of the twentieth century and seemed likely to disappear into the melting pot, an unusually talented group of Philadelphians, including Judge Mayer Sulzberger, Rabbi Sabato Morais of Congregation Mikveh Israel, and scholar Cyrus Adler, joined with a number of prominent New York Jews' to create several of the major institutions upon which modern American Jewish life would subsequently be built. They included, among others, the American Jewish Committee, the rejuvenated Jewish Publication Society, and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. The Center convened a conference of scholars to explore the...

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