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Tag: Americanization

0 Politics Israel

Israeli Exceptionalism?

Tel Aviv Review · 16 Sep

Dr. Yoav Fromer explores the evolution of Israeli conservatism and its American influences, centering on themes of political populism and judicial reforms.

0 Literature Language

Archaeologists uncover floor of destroyed Great Synagogue of Vilna

פֿאָרווערטס־רעדאַקציע in Forward · 6 Aug

Archaeologists have uncovered the floor of the destroyed Great Synagogue of Vilna, which was demolished during World War II.

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Fitting In on the Fourth of July

Jenna Weissman Joselit in Tablet · 30 Jun 2023

The article discusses the challenges faced by American Jews during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in fitting into the American celebration of the Fourth of July.

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When Jews Got Green Thumbs

Jenna Weissman Joselit in Tablet · 28 Apr 2023

The article explores how postwar American Jews embraced suburbia and its associated values, including the importance of gardens and spaciousness.

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How the Forverts historically related to its women readers

RSchaechter in Forward · 10 Jun 2022

The article explores the historical relationship between the Forverts newspaper and its women readers.

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The ideological journey of the Forverts in the first half of the 20th century

Forward · 28 Jan 2022

The book "Transatlantic Russian Jewishness: Ideological Voyages of the Yiddish Daily Forverts in the First Half of the Twentieth Century" by Gennady Estraikh explores the history of the Forverts, a Yiddish newspaper, and its editor Abraham Cahan.

0 Education Communities

A History of Jewish Day Schools

Jenna Weissman Joselit in Tablet · 29 Aug 2018

Jewish day schools were once frowned upon by American Jews, who favored the public school system as a means of integration into American society.

0 Culture History

In the Melting Pot

Allan Arkush in Jewish Review of Books · 16 Jun 2018

Israel Zangwill's play "The Melting Pot" presented America as a melting pot where immigrants of various backgrounds come together and assimilate, celebrated even by President Theodore Roosevelt, who rejected hyphenated American identities.

0 History Communities

The Industrial Removal Office

Robert Rockaway in Tablet · 16 May 2018

The Industrial Removal Office (IRO) was established in 1901 by German American Jewish leaders to relocate unemployed eastern European Jewish immigrants from New York City to smaller American cities with Jewish communities and job opportunities, aiming to alleviate problems in NYC and prevent radical movements.

0 Communities History

When the Bronx Was Burning

Alter Yisrael Shimon Feuerman in Tablet · 18 May 2016

The text reflects on the decline of the Jewish Bronx in the 1970s through the lens of the author's father, a rabbi who officiated at funerals in the area.