Abraham (Biblical)
Abram, Morris
Abrams, Elliott
Abzug, Bella
academic quotas. See also higher education acculturation; as accommodation; versus assimilation. See also AmericanizationM
Ackelsberg, Martha
Ackerman, Walter
Adler, Cyrus
Adler, Jacob
Adler, Rachel: Engendering Judaism; on Jewish law and gender equality; “The Jew Who Wasn’t There”
adult education. See also education
Adventure in Freedom (Handlin)
affluence: Jewish attainment of; mercantile and professional skills gained by Jews; social life and; stereotypes of; upward mobility. See also poverty
African Americans, racism towards. See also Black-Jewish relations; civil rights movement
Afro-American (journal)
aggadah (Jewish lore)
Agudat Harabanim. See Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America
Agudath Israel of America
Aguilar, Grace, The Spirit of Judaism
Ahavath Achim
Aish HaTorah
“AJCommittee”. See American Jewish Committee
“AJCongress”. See American Jewish Congress
Alfange, Dean
Allen, Frederick Lewis, Only Yesterday
Allen, Woody; “No Kaddish for Weinstein”
Alliance Israélite Universelle
Allied powers. See also World War II
Alpert, Richard
Alter, Judah Loeb
Alter, Robert
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
American Civil Liberties Union
American Council on Education
American culture, Jewish people and
American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs
American Hebrew
American Israelite,
American Israelites, Board of Delegates of (BDAI)
accommodation
Americanization; as acculturation; acculturation versus assimilation; American-ness; as assimilation; costs and benefits of; “deculturation”; and education; encouragement of; resisted or tensions over; shift away from European identifications
Americanization Day
American Jew, The, Marcus, Jacob Rader
American Jewess
American Jewish Committee; role in American response to Nazism. See also Commentary
American Jewish Conference
American Jewish Congress; Commission on Law and Social Action; role in American response to Nazism; support for civil rights; Women’s Division of
American Jewish culture. See culture, Jewish American
American Jewish Historical Society,
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
American Jewish Year Book
American Judaism (Sarna)
American Pastoral (Roth)
American Revolution
American Zionist Emergency Council
America (U.S.): democracy in; discovery of; economy of. See also United States government
Amidah prayer
Amin, Idi
Amsterdam Jewish community
am yisrael (the Jewish people)
anarchists
Angell, Marc
Anshi S’fard synagogues
anticommunism
Anti-Defamation League
Antin, Eleanor
Antin, Mary
anti-Orthodoxy
antiracist activism
antisemitism: analogies drawn with racism; attacks on synagogues; Christian anti-Judaism; existence and character of; fears of; housing discrimination; Jewish identity and; as minimal or lesser in America; nativism and; period(s) of more intense; persistence of; political exclusion of Jews in early period; in relations between Jews and African Americans; residential discrimination outlawed; sharp decline in; in social life and sports; stereotypes; waning or eclipse of; within academic institutions
anti-Zionism. See also Zionism
Appelfeld, Aharon
Aptekar, Ken
Arbeiter Ring (workman’s circle)
Arendt, Hannah; Eichmann in Jerusalem
Ariel, David
Arizona
art collecting
arts and artists
Ash, Abraham J.
Ashkenazim; early congregations; Eastern Europe origins and influence; ethnic tensions with Sephardim; intermarriage with Sephardim
Ashton, Dianne
Asmonean
assimilation; versus acculturation. See also Americanization
associational life. See also charitable organizations
Association for Jewish Studies
Atlanta
Atlanta Orthodox congregation
Atlanta race riot of 1906
Auerbach, Erich
Auschwitz. See also Holocaust
autobiography
Bal, Mieke
Baltimore
banking Barbados, Jewish settlers in
bar mitzvah; as a rite of passage; cases where eliminated; parties around
Baron, Lawrence
Barshefsky, Charlene
Baskin, Judith, Jewish Women in Historical Perspective
bat mitzvah; as a rite of passage
Bauman, Mark K.
BDAI. See American Israelites
Beck, Evelyn Torten, A Lesbian Anthology
Belkin, Samuel
Bell, Daniel
Bellah, Robert N
Bellow, Saul
Bellows, Henry
Benderly, Samson
benevolent societies; women’s. See also charitable organizations
Ben-Gurion, David
Benjamin, Judah
Benjamin, Judah P.
Bergson, Peter
Bergson group
Berkeley, University of California at
Berkeley Hillel
Berkovits, Eliezer
Berkowitz, Henry
Berlin, Adele
Berlin, Irving, “White Christmas,”
Berliner, Alan
Berman, Paul
Berman, Saul
Bermuda conference. See also World War II
Bermuda refugee conference
Bernstein, Arnold
Beth Ahabah Congregation
Beth Elohim K.K. Congregation
Beth Hamedrash Hagadol Congregation
Beth Israel congregation
Beth Medrash Govoha
Bettelheim, Bruno
Bettleheim, Bruno, The Informed Heart
Beverly Hills
Bevis Marks Congregation, London
Bible. See Hebrew Bible; New Testament
Bible scholarship, modern
biblical heroines
Bikur Cholim Congregation
Bill of Rights
Bing, Abraham
Bingham, Theodore
birth control
Black-Jewish relations; alliances and communication; analogies drawn between Nazism and racis; “Black antisemitism”; “Jewish racism”; in the South. See also African Americans; civil rights movement
Black Power movement
Blatt, Solomon
Blaustein, Jacob
Bleckner, Ross
Bloch, Charles
blood libel
Bloom, Sol
B’nai B’rith; local publications; national museum
B’nai B’rith Messenger
B’nai Yeshurun Congregation
Board of Delegates of American Israelites
Boas, Franz
Bodnar, John, The Transplanted
Body of Faith, The (Wyschogrod)
Bogin, Boris
Book of Exodus
Book of Genesis
Book of Jeremiah
Book of Job
Boorstin, Daniel J.
Booth, Marlene
Bordowitz, Gregg
Borough Park
Borowitz, Eugene; Liberal Judaism,
Boston
Boston Hebrew College
Boxer, Barbara
Boyer, Louis
Brandeis Institute
Braunstein, Solomon
Brazil, early Jewish settlement in
Bread Givers, The (Yezierska)
Brettler, Marc
Breyer, Stephen
Brickner, Barnett
bris ceremonies
brit ahuvim (“lovers’ covenant”)
British government
British Mandatory Palestine
brit milah (rite of circumcision)
Broad, Eli
Brooklyn; Orthodox community in
Brooks, Julius
Bryan, Charles Page
Buber, Martin
Bublick, Gedalia
Buchanan, Pat
Buckley, William F.
Buddhism
Budick, Emily
Buhle, Paul
burial
Bush George W.
businessmen
Cahan, Abraham; The Rise of David Levinsky; Yekl
Cahan, Y. L.
California. See also San Francisco; Western regionalism
California Jews (Kahn and Dollinger)
Camp Achvah
Camp Massad
cantors
Caplan, Kimmy
Capper, Arthur
Cardin, Shoshana
Carolina Israelite
Catholics
Cato, Gavin
Cedar-Sinai Hospital
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
celebrations, American patriotic. See patriotic celebrations
cemeteries
Census of Religious Bodies, U.S.
Central Conference of American Rabbis
Central Conference of American Rabbis, Pittsburg
central European Jewish immigrants. See also immigration of Jews from Europe
Chabad Orthodox center(s)
Chaim Berlin, New York
Chanuka. See Hanukkah
charitable organizations. See also benevolent societies
charitable work; social clubs inhibiting; tzedakah (communal charity)
Charleston; Orthodox congregations in; reformers in
Chattanooga Times
Chesler, Phyllis
Chicago; social life
Chicago Hebrew Institute
Chicago World’s Fairs and Exhibitions,
Children of the Ghetto (Zangwill)
child welfare
Christianity; New Testament
Christian-Jewish relations; anti-Jewish views; Gentile parents of Jews; in responding to Nazism
Christian scholarship on Judaism
Christian Science
chuppah canopy
Churchill, Winston
Cincinnati
circumcision rite
citizenship
Citron, Michelle
city management
City of Paris store
civil rights movement: activism and support for among Jews; criticized as distracting from Jews’ own struggle. See also African Americans
Civil War
class, social
Cleveland
Clinton, William J. (Bill)
Coffee, Rudolph
Cohen, David Solis
Cohen, Mary M.
Cohen, Solomon Myers
Cohn, Harry
cold war
Cole, Louis H.
College of Charleston
colonial era. See also settlers
Columbia University
Columbus, Christopher
Columbus Platform
Commentary. See also American Jewish Committee
Commission on the Status of Women U.S.
Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born
Communist Party, American
community newspapers
Concordia Club
Confederacy
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
congregational loyalties
congregations; formation of; hopes to unify. See also Orthodox congregations; Reform congregations
Congress of Jewish Women. See also National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW)
Congress Weekly
Conservative congregations
Conservative Judaism; as the conservative movement; Rabbinical Assembly of; women calling for change in. See also Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS); United Synagogue of America
Conservative Judaism ( journal)
conservative politics
Conservative Sinai Temple
Constitution, U.S.
contemporary Jewish thought; holism; the problem of theodicy; spiritual Judaism. See also intellectual history; secular Jewish thought; theology of Judaism
Cornell University
Cosmopolitan
Cott, Nancy
Coughlin, Father
Council of Jewish Women
Countertraditions in the Bible (Pardes)
covenantal birth ceremonies
Covenant Club
Cowen, Philip
Creation and the Persistence of Evil (Levenson)
Crisis (NAACP periodical)
Crossfire (film)
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
cuisine
cultural influence. See art; film production; intellectual influence; political influence; publishing
cultural property
cultural uncertainty
culture
culture, Jewish American; as a “civil religion”; arts and artists; ascendance of; cuisine; during the interwar period; impact of World War II on; the “in-culture”; Old World culture and folkways; postwar discourse on; rites of public culture; World War II and; Yiddish culture; Yiddish theater; of the younger generation
Curasao
Currier and Ives map
“Dabru Emet” (“Speak Truth”)
Da Costa, Isaac
Dalin, David G.
Damascus incident
Dartmouth College
daughter-welcoming services (shalom bat)
Dawidowicz, Lucy
Day (Der Tog) magazine
Day of Atonement
Day of Compassion
Days of Awe
Declaration of Independence
“deculturation”. See also acculturation
Delaware
Democratic party
demographic factors; American-born and youthful generation(s); gender-related; income and occupational structure.; in the Pacific West.; Pacific west Jewish population; of religious worship; shift and ascendance of Jews to high levels of endeavor
Depression era
Dershowitz, Alan
Detroit
Diamant, Anita, The Red Tent
Diaspora. See also world Jewry
Die Deborah magazine
Dik, Ayzik Meyer
Dinah (Biblical)
Diner, Hasia R.; The Jews of the United States
Donat, Alexander
Drachman, Bernard
drama. See theater, Yiddish
DuBowski, Sandi
Duker, Abraham G.
“dumbbell tenement”
Dutch West Indies Company
Dworkin, Andrea
Eastern European Jewish immigrants; the Great Wave; secular movements originating in. See also immigration of Jews from Europe
Eckstein, Nathan
ecumenical events
Eden cycle. See also Book of Genesis
education and Jewish schools; “Catholic model” versus “Protestant model”; day schools; embracing the public school system; gender issues; Hebrew language immersion; Hebrew Sunday Schools; higher education (see also by institution); kindergartens; summer camps; Talmud Torah schools
Eichmann in Jerusalem (Arendt)
Eilberg, Amy
Einhorn, David
Eisen, Arnold
Eisenberg Sasso, Sandy
Eisenstein, Judith Kaplan period
Elchanan, Isaac. See Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS)
Eldridge Street Synagogue
Ellenson, David
Emanu-El Reform Temple
Emergency Conference to Save the Jewish People of Europe
encyclopedias, Jewish
English language hymnal
entertainment industry. See also film production
Epstein, Harry H.
Equal Pay Act
Esberg, Milton
Esther, book of
ethical dilemmas
ethnic networking
ethnic tensions, among Jewish settlers
Etting, Reuben
Etz Chayim Yeshiva
Eureka Benevolent Society
European Jews; early economic activities; fundraising for. See also immigration of Jews from Europe
European Reform
Europe an Torah scholarship
evangelical movement
Eve (Biblical)
exclusionary practices: of Jews from politics; of women within Jewish life. See also antisemitism; quotas
existentialism
exodus from Egypt
Exploring Exodus (Sarna)
extended family. See also family
Eyes Remade for Wonder (Kushner)
Ezekiel, Moses
Ezrat Nashim
Faber, Eli
Fackenheim, Emil
Fairfield, Francis Gerry
Falk, Marcia
Falwell, Jerry
family; family purity (halakhot); in literature; marriage and; nuclear family; post-war changes in
Farrakhan, Louis
Faulkner, William
federation movement
Federation of Jewish Philanthropies
Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations
Fein, Leonard
Feingold, Henry L., Zion in America
Feinstein, Dianne
Feldman, Emanuel
Female Hebrew Benevolent Society (FHBS)
Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan)
feminism; Jewish women in the first wave; Jewish women in the second wave; Jewish patriarchy criticized. See also feminist Judaism; women, Jewish American feminist innovations in Jewish ritual; addition of orange to seder plate; Passover Haggadot; women’s seder
feminist Judaism: as a creative force debate and gains within Reform Judaism; elements of; gender equality and halakha (Jewish law); ordination of women rabbis; redefining Jewish memory; status improvements within Orthodox Judaism; theology of; women’s participation in religious observances
Fenster, Bernard
fertility. See procreation and fertility issues
festivals. See holy days and observances
Feynman, Richard
FHBS
fiction See literature
film festivals
film production; contemporary films; studio system
financiers
Firestone, Shulamith
First Amendment
First Congregational Church
Fischel, Harry
Fishbane, Michael
Fishman, Joshua
Five Books of Moses. See Torah
Flatbush Yeshivah
Florida
food. See also kosher meat
Forbes magazine
Ford, Henry
Fortas, Abe
Forverts
foster homes
foundation myths
Fox, J. P.
Fox Studios
Frank, Leo, case of
Frank, Ray
Frankel, Ellen
Frankel, Zecharias
Frankl, Viktor
Franks, Abigail Levy
Franks, Jacob
Freedom Train
Freemasons, Jewish
Friedan, Betty, The Feminine Mystique
Friederman, Zalman J.
Friedlander, Israel
Friedman, Debbie
Friedman, Norman
fundamentalist Protestantism
Funk, Isaac
Gaian paradigm
Gainesville Times
Galveston movement
Gass, Frieda
gay and lesbian issues
Geffen, Tobias
Gehry, Frank
Geiger, Abraham
gender; equality of the sexes. See also feminism genealogy
Gentleman’s Agreement (film)
Gentry, Marshall Bruce
Georgia, Savannah settlers
German immigrants and refugees. See also immigration of Jews from Europe
“Germans” and “Russians”
ghetto, Jewish
GI Bill
Gilman, Neil
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
Ginzberg, Louis
Glassman, Bernard
Glazer, B. Benedict
Glazer, Nathan
God-Torah-Israel
Goebbels, Josef
Gold, Mike, Jews Without Money
Golden, Harry
Goldin, Nan
Gold Rush
Goldsmith, May
Goldstein, Benjamin
Goldstein, Eric L.
Goldstein, Israel
Golinkin, Noah; with Jerome Lipnick and Moshe “Buddy” Sachs, “Retribution Is Not Enough”
Goodbye, Columbus (Roth)
Gordin, Jacob, Jewish King Lear
Gordis, Robert
Gordon, Sam
Goren, Arthur
Gornick, Vivian
Goshen-Gottstein, Moshe
government, U.S. See United States government
Graetz, Heinrich, History of the Jews
Gratz, Rebecca
Gratz College
Great Depression See Depression era
Great Wave
Greeley, Andrew M.
Green, Arthur:; “New Directions in Jewish Theology”
Greenberg, Blu
Greenberg, Clement
Greenberg, Isaac (Yitz)
Greenberg, Moshe
Greenberg, Simon
Greenblatt, Aliza
Greenspan, Alan
Greenstein, Micah
Gross, Rita
Gurock, Jeffrey S.
Guterman, Gerald
Guthrie, Woody
Gutstein, Morris
Guttheim, James K.
Ha’Am, Ahad
Hadassah; as a Zionist organization; humanitarian efforts; lay leadership of; secular and political activism of
Hadassah Magazine
Haggadah
Haggadot
halakha (Jewish law); gender equality and; matrimonial law
Halutzim
Hamburger, Abraham B.
Handlin, Oscar; Adventure in Freedom; The Uprooted
Hanukkah
Hapgood, Hutchins; The Spirit of the Ghetto
Harby, Isaac
Haredim (“ultra”-Orthodoxy)
Harkavy, Alexander
Harlem YMHA. See also Young Men’s Hebrew Association (YMHA)
Harmonie Club
Harrison, Leon
Har Sinai Verein Congregation
Hartman, David
Hartmann, Susan
Hartog, Marian Moss
Harvard Divinity School
Harvard Law School
Harvard University
Hasidic Jews
Hasidic school
Havurah,
hazan (cantor)
head covering
Hebrew ( journal)
Hebrew Benevolent Society
Hebrew Bible; modern Bible scholarship; as the Old Testament. See also Torah; and by Book
Hebrew Free School
Hebrew Goddess
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
Hebrew Institute of Long Island
Hebrew Ladies Benevolent Society
Hebrew Ladies Hospital Aid
Hebrew language; education in; liturgical. See also Yiddish
Hebrew name and naming ceremonies
Hebrew School, San Francisco
Hebrew Standard
Hebrew Sunday Schools
Hebrew Sunday School Society
Hebrew teachers’ colleges
Hebrew Theological Seminary, Chicago
Hebrew Union College
Hecht, Ben
Heinze, Andrew
Helfand, Judith
Heller, Max
Hellman, I. W.
“Helpers, The”
Henry, Jacob
Herberg, Will
Herberg’s model
Herskovits, Melville
Hertz, Emanuel
Hertzberg, Arthur, The Jews in America
Hertzberg, Arthur
Herzl, Theodor
Heschel, Abraham Joshua
Heschel, Susannah; On Being a Jewish Feminist
Hess, Moses
heterosexuality
Heydenfeldt, Solomon
higher education; discrimination against Jews in; Jewish institutions of. See also by institution
High Holy Days. See Rosh Hashanah;
Yom Kippur
Highland Park
high-rise buildings
Hillel House Foundation
Himmelfarb, Milton
Hinduism
Hirsch, Samson Raphael
history of world Jewry; Diaspora; exodus from Egypt; historical narratives; intellectual history; premodern. See also European Jews; Israel; Palestine
History of the Jews (Graetz)
History of the Jews in America, A (Sachar)
History of the Jews in America (Wiernik)
History of the Jews in the United States, A (Levinger)
Hitler, Adolph. See also Holocaust
Hoberman, J., and J. Shandler
Hofstadter, Richard
holidays. See holy days and observances
Hollinger, David
Hollywood; media moguls as a new elite in; studio system
Hollywood Jewish Center
Holocaust; Allies’ reaction to; Christian-Jewish communication during; narrative of (European) Jews’ passivity during; news of Nazi atrocities; problem of theodicy and; Roosevelt administration response to. See also Holocaust consciousness; Third Reich; World War II
Holocaust consciousness; analogies drawn between Nazism and racism; anti-war activism; decline in; film and literary representations; Jewish communal survival and identity focus; Jewish support for civil rights; post-Holocaust theology; remembrance as Jewish heritage; response to news of
Holocaust denial
Holocaust Museum, Los Angeles
Holocaust response: of Jewish-American leaders; role of the American Jewish Committee; role of the American Jewish Congress; role of the Bergson group; student activism at Jewish seminary (JTS),. See also United States government; Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Holocaust survivors; refugees; “second-generation survivors”
Holtzman, Elizabeth
holy days and observances; Passover; Rosh Hashanah; Succot festival; women’s participation in; Yom Kippur. See also rituals; Sabbath
Holy Land support
homosexuality. See gay and lesbian issues
Hook, Sidney
Hoover, Herbert
Horowitz, Moshe
housing discrimination
Howe, Irving; and Eliezer Greenberg, A Treasury of Yiddish Stories; World of Our Fathers
Hugo Seelig (fictional character). See also The Bread Givers (Yezierska)
Human Stain, The (Roth)
Hungarian Jews
Hyams, Henry
Hyman, Paula
Hyneman, Rebekah
identity, Jewish; antisemitism and; consciousness of the Holocaust affecting; culture and; as hybrid or marginal; in literature; pride; religious identity; ritual(s) and; self-hatred; self-reflexivity. See also culture, Jewish American; regional identity
Illinois. See also Chicago
Illowy, Bernard
I. Magnin and Company
immigrant acculturation. See also Americanization
immigrant aid organizations. See also by name
immigrants, Mexican
immigration of Jews from Europe; antisemitism and; efforts to establish community; poverty of immigrants; pre and post-1880 periods; restrictions placed on; tensions between central and eastern waves; urban conditions. See also central European Jewish immigrants; eastern European Jewish immigrants; “Germans” and “Russians”; settlers
immigration policy, U.S.; quotas; War Refugee Board
Immigration Removal Office
Informed Heart, The (Bettleheim)
Inquisition(s)
Institute for Jewish and Community Research
intellectual history. See also contemporary Jewish thought
intellectual influence; of Jews in academia and professions; of Jewish women in the feminist second wave; of liberal and “free-thinking Jews”; of neoconservative intellectuals. See also contemporary Jewish thought; publishing; scholarship
interracial marriage
Inter-Collegiate Menorah Society
intermarriage: of Ashkenazic and Sephardim; concerns over; multi-culturalism and; with non-Jews
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
International Psychoanalytic Association
international ties; transatlantic commerce
interwar period; American Jewish culture during
Iraq War
Irgun
Irving, David
Isaac (Biblical)
Isaac Luria of Safed
Isaac Mayer
Israel; loyalty of Jewish Americans to; Orthodox position on; rabbis opposing statehood; Six-Day War; statehood established. See also anti-Zionism; Palestine; Zionism
Israel Bond committees
Israelite. See American Israelite
Ivry, David
Jabotinsky, Vladimir Ze’ev
Jackson, Jesse
Jacobson, Matthew Frye
James, Henry
Janowsky, Oscar
Jastrow, Marcus
Jen, Gish, Mona in the Promised Land
Jesus
Jewish Advance
Jewish Americans; tensions between traditional and secular
Jewish American women See women, Jewish American
Jewish Buddhists
Jewish-Christian relations. See Christian-Jewish relations
Jewish Chronicle
Jewish Committee of Personal Service,
Jewish Community Center(s)
Jewish culture. See culture, Jewish American
Jewish Daily Forward
Jewish Daily News (Yiddishes Tageblatt)
Jewish education See education and Jewish schools
Jewish Education Society
Jewish Frontier
Jewish identity. See identity, Jewish
Jewish Institute of Religion
Jewish King Lear (Gordin)
Jewish Labor Committee
Jewish Ladies Relief Societies
Jewish law. See halakha (Jewish law)
Jewish men See men, Jewish American
Jewish Messenger
Jewish Museum, The
Jewish Observer
Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA)
Jewish Post and Opinion
Jewish press. See Yiddish press; and by name of journal
Jewish Press
Jewish Progressive Club, Atlanta
Jewish Publication Society (JPS)
Jewish religion See Judaism
Jewish scholarship. See scholarship
Jewish schools. See education and Jewish schools
Jewish settlers. See settlers
“Jewish spaces”
Jewish studies
Jewish Theological Seminary Association (JTSA)
Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS); student activism
Jewish thought. See contemporary Jewish thought
“Jewish Women Call for Change” position paper
Jewish Women in Historical Perspective (Baskin)
Jews and Judaism in New York(Weinberger)
Jews in America, The (Learsi)
Jews of the United States, The (Diner)
Jews Without Money (Gold)
John Birch Society
Johnson, Irving Bibo, and Lou Klein, Lincoln song by
Johnson, Lyndon Baines
John Wanamaker store
“Joint.” See American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Joint Emergency Committee on European Jewish Affairs
Jones, Frederick S.
Joselit, Jenna Weissman
Joseph, Jacob
JTS. See Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS)
Judaic philosophy. See contemporary
Jewish thought Judaism; continuing revival and flexibility of; diversity within; institutions of (see congregations; rabbi (teacher); synagogue; and organizations by name); periods of decline in; practice of (see holy days and observances; prayers; rituals; spirituality); religious demography of; sectors and movements of (see also Conservative Judaism; Orthodox Judaism; Reconstructionism; Reform Judaism; and by congregation, organization, or movement); similar traditions noted among sectors; thematic issues of; traditional versus reform or modern; viewed in aspects of as a “civil religion” (See also culture, Jewish American). See also feminist Judaism; theology of Judaism
Judaism and the New Woman (Priesand)
Judaism as a Civilization (Kaplan)
Judaism
Jung, Leo
jurigenesis (engendered praxis)
Kabbalah. See also mysticism
kaddish
Kahane, Meir
Kahn, Ava and Marc Dollinger California Jews,
Kahn, Florence
Kahn, Julius
Kahn, Louis
Kallen, Horace
Kamenetz, Rodger
Kaminetsky, Joseph
Kaplan, Mordecai M.; Judaism as a Civilization; Sabbath Prayer Book; sociological theology of
Karp, Abraham J., Haven and Home
Karpf, S.
Kass, Deborah
Kass, Leon
Kasson, John
Katz, Shlomo
Kayserling, Meyer
Kehilla
Kempner, Isaac
Kempner family
Kennedy, John F.
Kensky, Tikvah Frymer
Kessler, David
kiddush hashem
Kiefer, Anselm
King, Martin Luther
King, Rodney, riots over treatment of
Kingsolver, Joy
kipot (head covering)
Kishinev pogroms
Kissinger, Henry A.
K.K. Beth Elohim. See Beth Elohim K.K. Congregation
Klapper, Melissa
klezmer music; recordings of; revival of
Klutznick National Museum
Knesseth Israel Synagogue
Kobrin, Kobrin
Koch, Samuel
Kohler, Kaufmann
Kohs, Samuel C., Kook, Abraham Isaac
Kook, Hillel. See Bergson, Peter
Korn, Bertram W.
korobka tax
kosher boycott
kosher designation(s)
kosher meat: rabbinic supervision of; slaughter and butcher of
kosher restaurants
Kotler, Aaron
Krauskopf, Joseph
Kufeld, Max
Kursheedt, Gershom
Kushner, Lawrence, Eyes Remade for Wonder
labor activism
labor onset (women’s)
Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Societies
Laemmle, E. D.
Lakewood
Lamm, Norman
language. See Hebrew language; Yiddish
Lansky, Aaron
Las Vegas
Latteiner, Joseph
law. See halakha (Jewish law)
Leah (Biblical)
Learsi, Rufus, The Jews in America
Lebow, Alisa and Cynthia Madansky
Leeser, Isaac
Lehman family
Lehrer, Irving
Lehrer, Tom
Leibowitz, Cary
leisure and recreation. See also social clubs
Lemon v. Kurtzman
Lerner, Anne Lapidus
Lesbian Anthology, A, (Beck)
lesbianism. See also gay and lesbian issues
lesbian rabbis
Levenson, Alan T.
Levenson, Jon D.; Creation and the Persistence of Evil; Sinai and Zion; “Why Jews Are Not Interested in Biblical Theology”
Levetus, Celia Moss
Levi, Leo Napoleon
Levin, Louis
Levin, Richard C.
Levine, Jacqueline K.
Levine, Michael G.
Levinger, Lee J., A History of the Jews in the United States
Levinthal, Bernard
Levinthal, Israel Herbert
Levy, Asser
Levy, Moses Elias
Lewis, David Levering
liberalism; moderate reform ideology
Liberal Judaism (Borowitz)
Libeskind, Daniel
Lidsky, Jacob
Lieberman, Elias, “I Am an American”
Lieberman, Joseph
Lieberman, Rhonda
Liebman, Charles
life passages
Lilienthal, Max
Lilienthal family
Lincoln, Abraham
Lindberg, Charles
Lindo, Moses
Lipsitch, Irving
Lipstadt, Deborah
Liptzen, Keni
Lissauer, Herman
literature: ethnicity and assimilation issues in; the family; gender issues; Holocaust consciousness in; Jewish; Jewish feminist; race presentations in; significance of place; significance of space. See also publishing
Lithuanian-oriented yeshivas
liturgy; call for new liturgies. See also prayers Loewenberg, Ida
Long, Breckinridge
Long Island, New York
Lookstein, Joseph H.
Lopez, Aaron
Los Angeles; Hollywood; shopping district
Loth, Moritz
Louis Harris poll
Louisiana
Lou Levov (fictional character). See also American Pastoral (Roth)
Loving v. Virginia
Lower East Side
loyalty oaths and reviews
Lubarsky, Sandra, Tolerance and Transformation
Lubavitch rebbe
Lucena, Jacob de
Maccabees
Macy’s department store
Magda (fictional character). See also Shawl, The (Ozick)
Magnes, Judah L.
Magnin, Edgar
Mahathir Mohamad
Maimonides
Maimonides College
Maimonides School
male worshippers
mameloshen (mother tongue)
Manhattan
manufacture
Marcus, Jacob Rader; The American Jew
“marginal man, the”
Marjorie Morningstar (Wouk)
Marr, Wilhelm
Marranos
marriage; wedding ceremonies. See also family
Marx, Alexander
Marx, David
Marzinski, Marian
Masonic Lodge(s)
matriarchs
matzo, Passover. See also Passover seder
Ma’yan: The Jewish Women’s Project
May Company store(s)
Mayer, Louis B.
McCarthyism
McCloy, John
mechitzah (women’s gallery)
medical institutions
medical services
Medoff, Rafael
megillah
Meier, Richard
men, Jewish American; male Jewish social clubs (see also by name); male worshippers
Mencken, H. L. The Bell Curve
Mendelssohn, Moses
Mendes, Henry Pereira
Mendlowitz, Shraga F.
menopause ceremonies
Menorah Monthly
menstrual purity; mikveh (ritual bath)
Menuhin, Moses
Menuhin, Yehudi
Mercantile Club, Philadelphia
merchants and mercantile interests. See also transatlantic commerce
Merry Levov (fictional character). See also American Pastoral (Roth)
Merzbacher, Leo
Mesifta Torah Vodaath Congregation
messianic Judaism
Meyer, Sylvan
Miami
Michaelovsky, Israel
midrashim
Midstream
Mikveh Israel Congregation
mikveh (ritual bath)
Miller, Gershon
Minkovsky, Pinchas
minyanim, women’s
Miriam (Biblical)
miryam (Miriam’s cup)
modern Bible scholarship
Moise, Penina
Mona in the Promised Land, (Jen)
Montefiore, Moses, Sir
Moore, Deborah Dash
Morais, Sabato, Moral Majority
Morawska, Ewa
Morgan, Robin
Morgenstern, Julian
Morgenthau, Henry, Jr.
Morgn zhurnal (Jewish Morning Journal)
Mortara, Edgardo
Mortara affair
Moses (Biblical)
Mosholu Jewish Center
movie industry
movie theaters
Ms. magazine
Muhlenberg College
multithematic approach
Museum of Jewish Heritage
Musher, Deborah
Myerhoff, Barbara, Number Our Days
mysticism; Kabbalah study; translations of mystical writings
NAACP
Nadell, Pamela S.
Naidus, Beverly
Nathan Zuckerman (fictional character). See also American Pastoral (Roth)
Nation
National Association of Hebrew Day School PTAs
National Conference of Jewish Charities
National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW); as an educational venue; humanitarian efforts; liberal and reform activism; origin of
national cuisines
National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods
National Foundation for Jewish Culture
National Jewish Population Study
National Jewish Women’s Conference
National Opinion Research Center
National Organization for Women
National Service Industries
National Society for Hebrew Day Schools. See Torah Umesorah
National Society for Hebrew Day Schools
National Woman’s Rights Convention
National Yiddish Book Center (NYBC)
Nation of Islam
nativism
Nazism. See Hitler, Adolph; Holocaust; World War II
NCJW. See National Council of Jewish Women (NCJFW)
Neches, S. M.
Neighborhood House, Seattle
Neil Klugman (fictional character). See also Goodbye, Columbus (Roth)
Ner Israel, Baltimore
Neumark, Martha
Neusner, Jacob
Nevek Tzedek Synagogue
New Amsterdam
Newburger, Morris
New Christians, New Deal
Newfield, Morris, New Jersey
Newman, Louis I., Newman, Randy
Newmark, Harris
New Orleans; Jewish Widows and Orphans Home in
Newport: patriotic celebration in; settlers in
New Republic
New Testament
New York City, t.; Brooklyn; ecumenical programs in; Jewish settlers in; Lower East Side; Manhattan; Orthodox community in Brooklyn; social life in; Yiddish-language culture of
New York Kehilla
New York State; constitution of
New York Times
Nieto, Jacob
Nixon, Richard
Noah, Mordecai Manuel
non-Jewish organizations
non-Jewish people; intermarriage with
non-Orthodox congregations. See also Reform Judaism
non-Western religions. See also Buddhism
North Carolina
North Carolina Association of Jewish Women
Novick, Peter
nuclear family
Nussbaum, Max
Oakland, California
Occident
occult practices
Ochs family
Oglethorpe, James
Old World culture and folkways
Omer-Man, Jonathan
On Being a Jewish Feminist (Heschel)
Only Yesterday (Allen)
Oppenheim, James
oral histories
ordination, criteria and issues for
Oregon
organizations. See benevolent societies; social clubs; women’s organizations; and by name
Oring, Elliott
orphanages
Orthodox congregations. See also Union of Orthodox Congregations of America
Orthodox Judaism; adjustments to modern life; anti-Orthodox views; community in Brooklyn; decline or predicted decline in; during the colonial era; during the mass immigration period; “heresy” and excommunication; immigration rabbis and; liberalization or accommodation; and Reform Judaism; religious culture of; resurgence in diverse groups of; as “Torah true”; “ultra” or “right wing” (haredi); women’s status and feminism within. See also Ashkenazim; Sephardim
Orthodox Union See Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America
Osterman, Rosanna Dyer
overseas networks
“Oy-vey League”. See also intellectual influence
Oz, Amos
Ozick, Cynthia; The Puttermesser Papers; The Shawl
Pacific West; Eastern European immigrants to; small business orientation along. See also California; Oregon; Washington state; Western regionalism
Palestine; George Washington Forest in; Palestine homeland resolution; partition of; post-World War II issues surrounding. See also Israel; Zionism
Paramount Studios
Pardes, Ilana, Countertraditions in the Bible
Parrish, Timothy
Passover
Passover eve
Passover seder; addition of orange to seder plate; women’s seder
Patimkin family (fictional characters); Roth, Philip
Patinkin, Mandy
patriarchy
patriotism
patriotic celebrations; Independence Day; Presidential holidays; Thanksgiving Day
peddlers
Peden, William
Pehle, John
Peixotto, Benjamin Franklin
Peixotto, Jessica
Peixotto, Simha
Pember, Phoebe Yates Levy
Pennsylvania constitution. See also Philadelphia
Pentateuch. See Torah
periodicals and journals
Perlman, Itzhak
Pesach
Peter, Paul and Mary
Pfeffer, Leo
Phi Beta Kappa elections
Philadelphia; Jewish settlers in
Philadelphia Centennial Exposition
philanthropy. See also benevolent societies; immigrant aid organizations; and by organization
Phillips family (fictional characters)
Phoenix, Arizona
Pilgrims
piskei halakhah (legal corrections to Jewish law)
Pittsburgh
Plaskow, Judith: on redefining Jewish memory; Standing Again at Sinai; “The Right Question Is Theological”
Plot Against America, The (Roth)
Podhoretz, Norman
Pogrebin, Lotty Cotton
Polier, Justine Wise
Polier, Shad
Polish immigrants
Polish immigrants and refugees. See also immigration of Jews from Europe
political equality, See also feminism
political influence
political involvement: civil rights activism and support; governmental; “Jewish seats”; struggle of Jew’s for equal participation
political liberalism; “free-thinking Jews”
polls, public opinion
poll tax
Polonies Talmud Torah
Polzin, Robert
Pool, David de Sola
popular consciousness
popular culture
population, Jewish-American See demographic factors; procreation and fertility issues
Portland; social life in
Portnoys Complaint (Roth)
Portuguese Inquisition
post-bar mitzvah dropout from religion
post-Holocaust theology. See also Holocaust consciousness; theology of Judaism
post-World War I period. See interwar period
post-World War II period; discourse on Jewish American culture during; Jewish institutions enhanced during; realignment and optimism of Jews during
potash
poverty. See also affluence
Powell, Colin
Poznanski, Gustavus
prayers; prayer-and-mourning rallies; prayer book(s). See also liturgy
Prell, Riv-Ellen
premodern Jewish history
Presidents’ Day
press, Yiddish
Priesand, Sally; Judaism and the New Woman
Prinz, Joachim
procreation and fertility issues
Progressive Clubs
progress, paradigm of
Protestantism
Prottas, Sam
provincial Jewish communities. See regional identity
Psalm
Psalter
public schools, American. See also education and Jewish schools
publishing; literary publishing
Purim balls
Puritans
Puttermesser Papers, The (Ozick)
Pyke, Rachel Peixotto
queer issues. See gay and lesbian issues
quotas: academic; immigration
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS). See also Conservative Judaism
Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative movement
rabbinic literature
rabbi (teacher): gay and lesbian ordination issues; haham (Sephardic term); immigrant rabbis; ordinance of women to rank of; role of; training
Rachel (Biblical)
racial tensions,, See also Black-Jewish relations
racism; analogies drawn between racism and antisemitism
radicalism
Radical Zionist Alliance
Radinsky, David J.
Ramaz School
Ram Dass
Raphael, Linda S.
Raphael, Marc Lee
Raphael Weil and Company
Rebekah (Biblical)
Reconstructionist
Reconstructionist movement; congregations; positions
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Red Tent, The (Diamant)
Reform congregations. See also Union of Reform Judaism
Reformed Society of Israelites
Reform Judaism; Classical Reform and moderation of; criticisms of; European Reform movement and; feminism and gender debate within; program of; rituals observed in; theology of. See also Hebrew Union College; Temples, Reform
Reform Judaism, and Orthodox Judaism
Reform rabbis, ecumenical and civic activities
Reform Society of Israelites
refugees, WW-II. See also World War II; by group or nation
regional identity; Western regionalism. See also New York City; Pacific West; Southern Jews
Reichek, Elaine
Reichmann family
religion; religious identity; the “triple melting pot”. See also Judaism
religious freedom; the First Amendment; observance of the Sabbath
representations of Jewish life
Republican party
resistance
Revel, Bernard
Rhode Island. See Newport
Rhode Island
Rice, Abraham J.
Rice, Condoleezza
Richmond
Riegner, Gerhart
right wing: American political; within Judaism
Rischin, Moses
Rise of David Levinsky, The (Cahan)
rituals; bris ceremonies; of burial; call of the shofar; circumcision rite; daughter-welcoming services (shalom bat); home-based; identity and; innovations in (See also women’s seders); mikveh (ritual bath); organization al; Reform Judaism observance of; Sephardic versus Askenazic; symbolic redemption services (pidyon ha-bat); synagogue-based; traditional. See also Passover seder
Ro, Sol
Rodeph Shalom Congregation
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.; actions re: Nazi atrocities; electoral and personal support from Jews for
Roosevelt, Franklin D., See also World War II
Rosa (fictional character). See also Shawl, The (Ozick)
Rose, Ernestine
Rosenbaum, Yankel
Rosenberg, Ethel and Julius
Rosenberg, Harold
Rosenberg, Stuart
Rosenblatt, Yosele
Rosenzweig, Franz
Rosh Chodesh (new moon)
Rosh Hashanah
Roskies, David
Rosten, Leo
Roth, Phillip; American Pastoral; Goodbye, Columbus; Portnoys Complaint; the Roth family; The Human Stain; The Plot Against America
Rothschild, Jacob M.
Rothschild family
Routtenberg, Max Jonah
Rubenstein, Richard
Rubin, Robert
Ruff, Abe
Russian Emigrant Relief Fund
Russian immigrants. See also immigration of Jews from Europe
“Russians” and “Germans”
Ruth, Book of
Ryan, Mary
Sabbath: Evening Service; Orthodox observance; religious freedom and observance of; women’s minyanim
Sabbath Prayer Book (Kaplan)
Sabbath schools. See Hebrew Sunday Schools
Sachar, Howard M., A History of the Jews in America
Sachs, Joseph
Sachs, Tom
sacred space
Safdie, Moshe
Salomon, Haym
Salvador, Francis
Samuel, Maurice
San Diego
Sandler, Adam
San Francisco; Eastern European immigrants to; elevation map of; social life in
San Francisco earthquake
San Francisco Platform
Saphirstein, Jacob
Sara and Reb Smolinsky (fictional characters). See also Bread Givers, The (Yezierska)
Sarah (Biblical)
Sarna, Jonathan D.; American Judaism
Sarna, Nahum: Exploring Exodus; Understanding Genesis
Sasso, Sandy Eisenberg
Satmar Orthodox group
Satt, Hilda
Saturday Sabbath
Savannah settlers
SCA. See Synagogue Council of America (SCA)
Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman, Schapiro, Mayer
Schappes, Morris
Schechter, Solomon, Professor
Schiff, Jacob
Schneerson, Joseph I.
Schneiderman, Harry
scholarship; exegetical methods and interpretation of the Torah; modern Bible scholarship. See also higher education
Scholem, Gershom
Schwartz, George
Schwartz, Hannah
Schwartz, Maurice
Schwartz, Shuly Rubin
Schwarzschild, Steven S.
Scottsdale
Scribe
seaport communities
Seattle
Second International, socialist
Second Temple Judaism
“sectionalism”. See also regional identity
secular Jewish thought; as “civil religion”; positive historic Judaism; secular and religious boundaries; sociological theology
secular space, seder. See Passover seder
Sefira plan
Segalove, Ilene
Seid, Judith
Seligman family
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, U.S.
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, U.S, See also McCarthyism
Seneca Falls Declaration
Sephardim: demographics of; early settlement of; era of; ethnic tensions with Ashkenazim; intermarriage with Ashkenazim; Sephardic period
settlers: American democratic traditions and; earliest; political legacy; in Savannah; seaport communities attracting. See also immigration of Jews from Europe
sexual equality. See also feminism
sexually mixed seating
sexual mores
sexual orientation. See also gay and lesbian issues; heterosexuality
sexual revolution. See also feminism
sexual separation
Seymour Levov (fictional character). See also American Pastoral (Roth)
Shaarei Torah Synagogue
Shalom, Rodeph
Shalom Hartman Institute
Shandler, Jeffrey
Shapiro, Judah
Shapiro, Karl, “University”
Shavout
Shawl, The (Ozick)
Sherith Israel Congregation
Shechner, Mark
Sheftall, Levi
Shenberg, Hyman
Sherwin, Byron
Shoah. See Holocaust
shofar
Shulamith School for Girls
Silver, Abba Hillel
Silverman, Sol
Silverstone, Gedalya
Simchat Torah, women’s
Simon, Carrie
Simon, Joseph
Sinai and Zion (Levenson)
Sinai Congregation
Sinai Temple. See Conservative Sinai Temple; Temple Sinai
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Singer, Isidore
single-sex dorms
Sirota, Gershon
Sisterhoods of Personal Service
Six-Day War
Sklare, Marshall
Skotsl (folklore character)
Skverer rebbe
slavery
small towns
Smith, Gerald L. K.
social class
social clubs; all male; clubhouses; criticisms of; leisure and recreation promoted; “lunch and card clubs”; progressive values emerging in; urban social clubs
socialism; critique of U.S. government; labor activism and; Yiddish socialist press(es)
Socialist organizations
socialist Zionism
social welfare; social workers
sociological theology,
Solis-Cohen, Solomon
Sollors, Werner
Solomon, Hannah Greenbaum
Soloveitchik, Haym
Soloveitchik, Rav Joseph
Sonneschein, Rosa; American Jewess
Sorin, Gerald, Tradition Transformed
Soros, George
South Carolina
Southern Jewish Historical Society
Southern Jews; European immigrants; historiography of
Spanish-Portuguese Jews
Speiser, Ephraim
Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Spiegel, Marcus
Spielberg, Steven
Spinoza, Benedict (Baruch)
Spirit of the Ghetto, The (Hapgood)
Spirit of Judaism, The (Aguilar)
spirituality: feminist spiritual innovation; and Judaism; and Zionism. See also Judaism; mysticism; ritual; theology of Judaism
Spokane, Washington
Standard Club
Standing Again at Sinai (Plaskow)
Stanley, Sandra Kumamoto
Staub, Michael E.
Steinem, Gloria
Steinweis, Alan
Stengel, Casey
stereotypes
Stern, Elizabeth G.
Stern, Malcolm
Sternberg, Meir
Stern College for Women
Sterne, Dora
Stiles, Ezra
St. Louis
Stolz, Jacob
Stone, I. F.
Stone, John
Stone Avenue Talmud Torah
Stonequist, Everett
storekeepers
Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC)
Students for a Democratic Society
Stuyvesant, Peter
subcontracting
suburbanization
success, cost of
Succot festival
Sulzberger, Mayer
Summers, Lawrence
Sun Belt region
Sunday Sabbath laws
Supreme Court, U.S.; appointments to
Svonkin, Stuart
Swede, the (fictional character). See also American Pastoral (Roth)
Swiss Treaty
synagogue; cemetery and; denominational labels; rituals (See also by name)
Synagogue Center programs
Synagogue Council of America (SCA)
syncretism, Jewish
Syrkin, Marie
Szold, Henrietta
tallitot (prayer shawls)
Talmud
Talmud Torah; Stone Avenue
Talmud Torah Congregation
Talmud Torah schools
Talmud Yeladim
Tanakh. See Hebrew Bible
Tanenbaum, Abner
Taper, Mark
tapuz devorah (Deborah’s orange on seder plates)
Tax, Meredith
Tax, Sol
teacher. See rabbi (teacher)
technological innovation
Teitelbaum, Yoel
Temple Center institutions
Temples, Reform; Emanu-El Reform Temple; Wilshire Boulevard Temple
Temple Sinai, Oakland
Tephilo, Mishkan
Texas Kallal of Rabbis
textile production
Thanksgiving Day
theater, Yiddish
theology of Judaism; exegetical methods and interpretation; feminist theology; post-Holocaust theology; Reform theology; secularism (see secular Jewish thought); sociological approach. See also feminist Judaism; Judaism; spirituality; and by theological seminary or college)
“The Right Question Is Theological” (Plaskow)
Third Reich; Hitler. See also Holocaust; World War II
Thomashefsky, Boris
thought, contemporary. See contemporary Jewish thought
Title VII, Civil Rights Act
Tobin, Gary
Tolerance and Transformation (Lubarsky)
Toll, William
Torah; authorship; and the Constitution; Eden cycle in; exclusion of women in; exegetical methods and interpretation of; Orthodox understanding of; as the Pentateuch,; reading and commentary by women; reading of; Reform understanding of; Torah scrolls. See also Hebrew Bible; theology of Judaism
Torah Commentary
Torah honors (aliyot)
Torah scholarship
Torah Umadda philosophy
Torah Umesorah
Torah Voda’at, New York
Torres, Luis de
Touro, Jacob
Touro Hospital, New Orleans, Touro Synagogue
traditional Judaism: reform or modern and; rituals; secularism and
Tradition Transformed (Sorin)
transatlantic commerce. See also merchants and mercantile interests
transdenominationalism
Transplanted, The (Bodnar)
Treasury of Yiddish Stories (Greenberg and Howe)
Treiger, Bert
Trembling Before G-d (film)
treyfe (unkosher) banquet
Trible, Phyllis
Trilling, Lionell
True Sisters, United Order of
Truman, Harry
Twentieth Century Fox
UAHC. See Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC)
Umansky, Ellen
Unabhangiger Orden Treuer Schwestern See True Sisters, United Order of
Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC); patriotic activities; support for civil rights. See also Union of Reform Judaism
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America
Union of Reform Judaism. See also Reform congregations
Union Prayer-Book
Unitarian Church
United Hebrew Benevolent Society
United Hebrew Relief Association
United Jewish Appeal
United Nations International Women’s Conferences
United Nations Special Committee on Palestine
United Order of True Sisters
United Palestine Appeal
United States government; American democracy and; Constitution of; Jewish critique of; responding to news of Nazi atrocities; War Refugee Board. See also immigration policy, U.S.
United Synagogue of America: congregations. See also Conservative Judaism
Unity Club
Universal Studios
University of Judaism
Uprooted, The (Handlin)
urban conditions
Urban League
urban neighborhoods
U.S. See United States government
Vaad ha-Hatzala
Venice, California
veterans
victimhood, rejection of
Vietnam War; anti-war activism
Vogell, A. E.
Voorsanger, Jacob
Wald, Lillian
Walker, Francis I.
Wanamaker’s store
War Department, U.S.
Warner, Jack
War Refugee Board
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Washington, George
Washington state; Seattle.
Waskow, Arthur
wealth. See affluence
wedding ceremonies
Weinberg, Larry
Weinberger, Moses; Jews and Judaism in New York
Weinreich, Max
Weiss, Paul
Weissbach, Lee Shai
Weissler, Chava
Weissman Joselit, Jenna
Weisstein, Naomi
Wenger, Beth S.
Western Jewish History Center
Western regionalism. See also Pacific West
“whig” paradigm of progress
“White Christmas” (Berlin)
Whitfield, Stephen J.
Widows’ homes
Wiernik, Peter; History of the Jews in America
Wiesenthal Center
Wiesner, Jerome
Wilder, Billy
William and Mary
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Wilshire Boulevard Temple
Winn, Albert
Winthrop, John
Wirth, Louis
Wirth-Nesher, Hana
Wisdom literature
Wise, Isaac Mayer; on American democracy; leading reforms
Wise, Jonah
Wise, Stephen Dr.; role in American response to the Holocaust
Wolpe, David
women, Jewish American; daughters; family and social role of; religious influence of; religious studies of; Sabbath school educators; women rabbis. See also feminism; women’s organizations
women rabbis
Women’s Club of the Arbeiter Ring
Women’s Division of the American Jewish Congress
women’s minyanim
women’s organizations; benevolent societies; Congress of Jewish Women; Council of Jewish Women; Ezrat Nashim; Havurah. See also Hadassah; National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW)
Women’s Rabbinic Network
Women’s Rights Project, ACLU
women’s seder
Women’s Torah Commentary, The
Woocher, Jonathan
working conditions
“working men’s minyan”
World Jewish Congress
world Jewry. See also Diaspora Jewry
World of Our Fathers (Howe)
World Parliament of Religion (1893)
World War II; Allied powers; British government and; Jewish American culture and; Jewish refugees; public opinion on U.S. entry; refugees from; U.S. War Refugee Board. See also post-World War II period; Roosevelt, Franklin D.
World Wars, period between See interwar period
Wouk, Herman, Marjorie Morningstar
Wurtzel, Sol
Wurzburger, Walter S.
Wyman, David S.
Wyschogrod, Michael, The Body of Faith
Yale University
Yarrow, Peter
Yehoshua, A. B.
Yekl (Cahan)
yeshivas
Yeshiva University
Yezierska, Anzia; The Bread Givers
Yiddish; defined; Yiddish-English dictionary. See also Hebrew language
Yiddish Book Center
Yiddish culture
Yiddish literature
Yiddish press
Yiddish radio
Yiddish theater; Yiddish Art Theater
Yidishes tageblat (Jewish Daily News)
YMHA. See Young Men’s Hebrew Association(s) (YMHA)
Yom Kippur
Young Men’s Hebrew Association (YMHA)
youth movements
youth-oriented institutions
Yulee, David Levy
Zale’s jewelry stores
Zamenhof, Ludwig Lazar
Zangwill, Israel, Children of the Ghetto
Zantovsky, Michael
Zhitlowsky, Chaim
Zion in America (Feingold)
Zionism; education and; Jewish political identity and; pageants; socialist Zionism; women’s organizations (See also Hadasah). See also anti-Zionism; Israel; Palestine
Zuckerman family (fictional characters). See also American Pastoral (Roth)
Zukin, Joseph