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Unveiling the gravestones of the JDC emissaries Professor Israel Friedlaender and Rabbi Bernard Cantor. July 5, 1923. Credit: AJJDC Archives, New York
VOLUME LV NUMBER 1 ISSN 002-905X
Published by The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Gary P. Zola, Ph.D., Editor
Frederic Krome, Ph.D., Managing Editor
Jacob Rader Marcus, Ph.D., Founding Editor (1896-1995)
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To our readers Gary P. Zola, Editor
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"Israel! What a Wonderful People!": Elliot Cohen's Critique of Modern American Jewry 1924-1927 ~ Daniel Greene
Although primarily remembered as the founding editor of Commentary Magazine, Elliot E. Cohen first emerged as a critic of American Jewish life during his tenure as the managing editor of The Menorah Journal in the 1920s. Daniel Greene examines Cohen’s recurring column,“Notes for a Modern History of the Jews,”which juxtaposed quotations from a variety of sources to highlight the contradictions and ambiguities of American Jewish life. Greene’s analysis provides insight into the development of cultural criticism during the interwar years.
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A Significant Journal of Jewish Opinion?: The Jewishness of Commentary Magazine ~ Nathan Abrams
Founded by Elliot E. Cohen, Commentary Magazine was the first opinion journal in the United States to be wholly funded by a Jewish organization. Under Cohen’s leadership, Commentary provided a venue for many young Jewish intellectuals to analyse American Jewish life after World War II. Abrams identifies a cadre of American Jewish writers who would subsequently form the core of the group labelled the “New York Jewish Intellectuals,”whose oeuvre helped define contemporary Jewish intellectual life.
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New Light on the Murder of Professor Israel Friedlaender and Rabbi Bernard Cantor: The Truth Rediscovered ~ Michael Beizer
In July 1920, Professor Israel Friedlaender and Rabbi Bernard Cantor, who were serving as emissaries of the Joint Distribution Committee were killed in the Ukraine. The event galvanized segments of the American Jewish community who were pro-Bolshevik to defend the Russian revolutionaries, while anti-Bolsheviks used their murder as proof of the regime’s barbarism. Several years ago Michael Beizer, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, located their graves. Here he presents previously unknown documents relating to their case.
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Racism in the United States ~ James Westheider
George M. Fredrickson, Racism: A Short History
Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century
The Paper Chase ~ The Paper Chase
Tom Wells,Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
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• Phil Brown, editor, In the Catskills: A Century of the Jewish
Experience in “The Mountains,” reviewed by David Stradling
• Leonard Rogoff, Homelands: Southern Jewish Identity in Durham and
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, reviewed by Aleisa Fishman
• Bat-Ami Zucker, In Search of Refuge: Jews and U.S. Consuls in Nazi
Germany 1933–1941, reviewed by Joseph W. Bendersky
• Paul Charles Merkley, Christian Attitudes Towards the State of Israel,
reviewed by Adam Howard
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• “Communities in a Changing Nation: The Promise of 19th Century America: Jewish Immigrants: The Promise of a New Life,” reviewed by Roger Daniels
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FANNIE ZELCER (1923–2003) ~ Kevin Proffitt
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