{"title":"Affiliated Identities in Jewish American Literature by David Hadar (review)","authors":"N. Taub","doi":"10.1353/ajh.2022.a899292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajh.2022.a899292","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43104,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY","volume":"106 1","pages":"413 - 415"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47427716","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":"Immigration, Ideology, and Public Activity from an American Jewish Perspective: A Journey Across Three Continents by Zohar Segev (review)","authors":"M. Keren","doi":"10.1353/ajh.2022.a899294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajh.2022.a899294","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43104,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY","volume":"106 1","pages":"418 - 419"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44387346","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":"Sources of Jewish Music: Active and Passive Assimilation Revisited","authors":"Jonathan L. Friedmann","doi":"10.1353/ajh.2022.a899289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajh.2022.a899289","url":null,"abstract":"General theories are scarce in the current field of Jewish music research. Most attempts at all-encompassing rules or principles have proven untenable due to the complexity of the terms involved—“Jewish” and “music”—as well as the overwhelming historical and regional diversity of Jewish music cultures. Past efforts to draw maps or timelines connecting the various forms, styles, and contexts have invariably led to what Israeli musicologist Edwin Seroussi calls “unfortunate overgeneralizations.” According to Seroussi, the central flaw of such theories—whether they seek to connect various strands of musical expression to a single, longago source (commonly the Second Temple) or search for a “stable,” “unilinear,” or “authentic” musical expression—is the “ontological notion of ‘tradition,’” which “assumes the existence of unambiguous boundaries separating sonic spaces” while ignoring the complex roles of individual contributors, performance contexts, cross-cultural contacts, shifting tastes, historical circumstances, and other shaping forces. The elusiveness of a stable or definable tradition speaks to challenges in musicological inquiry more generally, where attempts at empirical or objective claims often clash with the experiential and subjective nature of the subject matter.","PeriodicalId":43104,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY","volume":"106 1","pages":"389 - 407"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49212020","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":"Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese Exclusion and Incarceration by Rachel Schreiber (review)","authors":"Paul C. Mishler","doi":"10.1353/ajh.2022.a899293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajh.2022.a899293","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43104,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY","volume":"106 1","pages":"416 - 418"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46974822","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":"Mutual Empowerment in the \"Power Era\": US Jews and American Indians in the Post–Civil Rights Movement United States","authors":"Avery Weinman","doi":"10.1353/ajh.2022.a899287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajh.2022.a899287","url":null,"abstract":"On December 7, 1969, Joel Brooks and Rabbi Roger E. Herst—two US Jews representing the northern California division of the American Jewish Congress (AJCongress), a major institution of organized Jewish life in the United States—moored the newly rechristened boat Shalom I to the crags of Alcatraz Island in the heart of the San Francisco Bay. Brooks and Herst had sailed to the island to answer a public call for donations and support issued by Indians of All Tribes (IAT), the American Indian activist group who began their occupation of Alcatraz, the notorious former federal penitentiary ominously nicknamed “The Rock,” a month earlier in order to call attention to the United States’ violations of tribes’ treaty rights. Over the course of nineteen months, from November 20, 1969 to June 11, 1971, IAT’s Alcatraz occupation electrified a rapt public already thrumming with anti-establishment radicalism. For American Indians, Alcatraz came to symbolize core tenets of Red Power: full-throated rejection of assimilation, renewed interest in tribal sociocultural and linguistic traditions, and staunch advocacy for American Indian self-determination and legal autonomy on ancestral lands.","PeriodicalId":43104,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY","volume":"106 1","pages":"339 - 366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43701679","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":"Unwelcome Guests: A History of Access to American Higher Education by Harold S. Weschler and Steven J. Diner (review)","authors":"Shira Kohn","doi":"10.1353/ajh.2022.a899295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajh.2022.a899295","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43104,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY","volume":"106 1","pages":"420 - 422"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41830469","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":"I'll Have What She's Having: The Jewish Deli by Cate Thurston, Laura Mart, and Lara Rabinovitch (review)","authors":"S. Benor","doi":"10.1353/ajh.2022.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajh.2022.0047","url":null,"abstract":"I’ll Have What She’s Having: The Jewish Deli. Curated by Cate Thurston, Laura Mart, and Lara Rabinovitch. Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California (April 14–September 4, 2022). https://www.skirball. org/exhibitions/ill-have-what-shes-having-jewish-deli. Additional venues: New York Historical Society (November 11, 2022 –April 2, 2023), Holocaust Museum, Houston, Texas (May 4–August 13, 2023), and Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, Skokie, IL (October 22, 2023–April 14, 2024).","PeriodicalId":43104,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY","volume":"106 1","pages":"331 - 333"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43722242","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}