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Constituting American Jewish childhood: Parameters of acceptable difference.
No full textAt the beginning of the twenty-first century a growing concern about assimilation provoked calls for reform of Jewish education. These calls for reform of Jewish education mimic similar calls for reform of public education within the United States. The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the uptake of general social and educational discourses within the field of Jewish education and to examine (re)configurations of American Jewish childhood that have emerged as rules and standards of reasoning have shifted. In this "history of the present" I examine the mobilization of mainstream educational and social knowledge within the field of Jewish education and argue that shifting reasoning about childhood, Americanness, and Jewishness have effects of (re)constituting American Jewish childhood as the same as, but also as acceptably different from, normal American childhood. This dissertation is divided into three parts: Section One discusses the theoretical framework as well as an a priori , but shifting, relation of difference through which Jewishness constitutes itself and is constituted by others. Section Two examines Jewish educational literature of the mid-nineteenth century and the turn of the twentieth century. Section Three explores American Jewish educational literature in the decades after the Second World War, and in the present. The analysis focuses upon the uptake of shifting social and educational discourses by Jewish educational reformers such that the American Jewish child has been (re)constituted as a normal American child, whose Jewishness is within parameters of acceptable religious difference. Examination of the discursive formations of childhood, Americanness, and Jewishness, and the interactions between the discursive trajectories, within Jewish educational literature makes visible the ranking and ordering of populations inscribed within educational discourse and re-inscribed into notions of American Jewish childhood. Thus, the constitution of a same, but acceptably different American Jewish child has also had effects of constituting Jewish childhoods that are neither the same, nor acceptably different.Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2008.School code: 0262
AHC interview with Mary Silverman.
No full textApril 7, 2008Mary Silverman née Goldmann was born 1925 in Vienna, Austria, where her father owned a substantial art collection. The family emigrated right after 'Anschluss' to Czechoslovakia, from there to England and from England to the United States. The art collection was stolen by the Nazi authorities and distributed to a variety of museums.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Das Memorbuch zu Frankfurt am Main : Erschliessung und Commentierung ausgewählter Themenkreise / [electronic resource]
No full textThesis (Ph. D.)--Universitaet Duisberg-Essen, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. 900-933) and indexes
AHC interview with Dan Israel Porat.
No full textJanuary 17, 2008Dan Israel Porat (Pfefferbaum) was born in Stanisławów, Poland (today Stanislav, Ukraine). His father’s small parcel-shipping business was heavily hit by the stock market crash of 1929. The family moved to Vienna’s second district, where they lived under rather poor conditions. After the Anschluss, Dan was beaten on the street by Hitler Youths. He emigrated with a Youth Aliyah group to Palestine, where he joined the Kibbutz Na’an. He enlisted with the British Army’s Royal Engineers. After WW II he studied in Israel and in England before immigrating to the United States and eventually settling in San Francisco, CA.Austrian Heritage CollectionThe interview was made possible through a grant of the National Fund of the Republic of Austri
AHC interview with Alfred Leitner.
No full textAlfred Leitner was born in Vienna, Austria, where he lived in the First District (Weihburgergasse). His family was orthodox Jewish, but Alfred turned his back to religion when still being a high school student. March 1938 and the „Anschluss“ forced him to attend school, with only one more year to go. In December 1938, he escaped to the USA, where an uncle took care of him. The majority of his family escaped to Palestine, but many Hungarian relatives were murdered in the Holocaust. Alfred Leitner worked as a physics professor and eventually settled in Naples, Florida.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Anny Landsberger
No full textAugust 7, 2008Anny Landsberger, née Terkel, was born on 1923 in Vienna, Austria. She and her mother immigrated via the Netherlands to the United States in 1939. Her father was not able to leave, as he was born in Romania and the US quota-system made it impossible for him to immigrate. They settled in New Jersey, where Anny Landsberger finished her education in several colleges and met her husband, Kurt (AHC 1992). She and her husband used their life-savings to start a successful business manufacturing laboratory supplies and equipments for the elderly. They funded the Landsberger Holocaust Collections at the Verona and Pequannock Public Libraries in New Jersey.Austrian Heritage Collectio
‘Good Germans’ and the Holocaust : speech given to the Puget Sound Association of Phi Beta Kappa, Nov. 12, 2008.
No full textdigitizedRobert P. Ericksen is the Kurt Mayer Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, W
Hans Epstein : Eine biographische Annaeherung an einen deutsch-juedischen Fluechtling in New York.
No full textThe life of German Jewish refugees, Hans and Rosy Epstein, illustrating how the prevailing political developments and environment under the NS-Dictatorship affected one individualdigitizedThesisEnglish translation of the introduction (4 p.)PhotographsThe thesis is in large parts based on the LBI’s Hans Epstein Collection, AR 6362Bibliography : p. 111-116Master’s thesis (Lizentiatsarbeit) at the Historical Institute at the University of Basel (Switzerland
Waronker 82
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, and Ethiopia
American Soviet Jewry Movement Oral Histories Collection, 2008-2011, 2013
No full textThe collection contains audio and video interviews with activists of the American Soviet Jewry Movement, former Refuseniks and Prisoners of Conscience.The collection consists of one folder.The collection contains oral histories with the following persons:Cohen, Pamela. Prominent activist of the American Soviet Jewry Movement, Pamela B. Cohen began her activity through the independent grassroots council, the Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry (CASJ). In 1978, she served with Marillyn Tallman as co-chair until 1986, when she became the national president of the Washington-based Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (UCSJ). She served in that capacity for 10 years.Gradinger, Sanford A. Rochester, NY businessman and human rights activist, who in 1978 co-founded the Andrei Sakharov International Committee to focus international attention on the prominent human rights activist Andrei Sakharov (repressed by the Soviet government), reunite separated Soviet Jewish families, and demand the release of Soviet Jewish Refuseniks like Rimma Bravve and Ida Nudel.Hill, David, Rabbi. A pioneer of the Soviet Jewry movement, New York City Rabbi and businessman Rabbi Hill served as the national president of the National Council of Young Israel, was a member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and an officer of National Conference on Soviet Jewry. Starting in 1971, he ran Operation Lifeline, an independently funded outreach program created by the NCSJ Commission on Education and Culture to support Jewish life in the USSR and Former Soviet Union.Jacobson, Charlotte. A National President of Hadassah from 1964 to 1968, Charlotte Jacobson occupied a number of key positions in the American and world Zionist leadership and traveled to the Soviet Union to defend the rights of Soviet Jews.Lieberman, Leah. Co-founder of the Brooklyn Coalition for Soviet Jewry.Pesky, Alan. An activist in the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry later renamed the Coalition to Free Soviet Jews.Sandberg, Joel and Adele. Co-founders of the South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry.Schapira, Morey. A prominent activist of the American Soviet Jewry movement, Mr. Schapira held leadership positions in several organizations including: Action for Soviet Jewry, the Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry, the New England Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, and the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews.Spiegel, Philip. Soviet Jewry movement activist and an author of the book Triumph Over Tyranny: The Heroic Campaigns that Saved 2,000,000 Soviet Jews.Taratuta, Aba and Ida. Former Refuseniks and Soviet Jewish activists from Leningrad, presently residing in Israel.Vershubsky, Nosson. Former Soviet Jewish Refusenik and Prisoner of Conscience (POC), former Chief Rabbi of Voronezh.Published citations should take the following form: Identification of item, date (if known); American Soviet Jewry Movement Oral Histories Collection; *I-548 ; box number; folder number; American Jewish Historical Society, Boston, MA and New York, NY.American Jewish Historical Society,Finding Aid available in Reading Room and on Internet.far031