1996-1997 Semester

Jewish Religion and Culture
In the American Diaspora, 1920-1970

Name
Area of Research
Gulie Arad
Tel-Aviv University
The Americanization of Judaic Tradition: Blessings and Afflictions of Modernity
Daniel Elazar (F)
Bar-Ilan University
A Comparison of the Political Culture of Jews in Israel and the U.S., 1870's - 1960's
Tresa Grauer
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Sacred Through Secular: The Authority of the Text in Modern Jewish American Literature
Jenna Joselit (S)
New York University
Jews and Fashion: Material Culture in American Jewish History
Deborah Dash Moore (F)
Vassar College
Jewish G.I.s and the "Judeo-Christian Tradition": The Shaping of New Possibilities for Ethnic Self-Expression
Anita Norich (S)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Jewish Culture in America During the Holocaust

Rakhmiel Peltz (S)
Columbia University

Children of Eastern European Immigrants Interpret Their Legacy, 1920-1955
Marc Raphael (S)
The College of William and Mary
The History of the Synagogue in America During the Twentieth Century
Jeffrey Shandler
Columbia University
American Jews and the Electronic Media: Film, Radio, and Television in American Jewish Self-Portraiture and Cultural Life, 1920-1970
Beth Wenger
University of Pennsylvania
American Visions of the Jewish Past: Jewish Historical Consciousness and Collective Memory in America