Jewish Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook
This handbook addresses how the Jewish American community emerged from obscurity to play a role in behind-the-scenes power politics and finally appeared center stage.

Jewish Americans and Political Participation explores the rise of the Jewish people from hardscrabble immigrants to the highest echelons of political power. The book provides an overview of American Jewish life, including the impact of immigration, domestic antisemitism, the Holocaust, and U.S–Israel relations. A chapter is devoted to protest politics, covering such events as President Grant's Order #11 (expulsion edict), tenants and shirtwaist-makers strikes, the 1943 rabbis march on Washington, and Jewish responses to the Rosenberg case.

The book also covers participation in social movements such as abolition, Jewish defense organizations, and the New Left. A chapter is devoted to Jewish participation in electoral politics, from Jewish interest in early socialism to Jewish advisers and the emergence of Jewish conservatism. There are also biographies of Jewish American officials and political officeholders.

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Jewish Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook
This handbook addresses how the Jewish American community emerged from obscurity to play a role in behind-the-scenes power politics and finally appeared center stage.

Jewish Americans and Political Participation explores the rise of the Jewish people from hardscrabble immigrants to the highest echelons of political power. The book provides an overview of American Jewish life, including the impact of immigration, domestic antisemitism, the Holocaust, and U.S–Israel relations. A chapter is devoted to protest politics, covering such events as President Grant's Order #11 (expulsion edict), tenants and shirtwaist-makers strikes, the 1943 rabbis march on Washington, and Jewish responses to the Rosenberg case.

The book also covers participation in social movements such as abolition, Jewish defense organizations, and the New Left. A chapter is devoted to Jewish participation in electoral politics, from Jewish interest in early socialism to Jewish advisers and the emergence of Jewish conservatism. There are also biographies of Jewish American officials and political officeholders.

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Jewish Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook

Jewish Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook

by Rafael Medoff
Jewish Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook

Jewish Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook

by Rafael Medoff

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Overview

This handbook addresses how the Jewish American community emerged from obscurity to play a role in behind-the-scenes power politics and finally appeared center stage.

Jewish Americans and Political Participation explores the rise of the Jewish people from hardscrabble immigrants to the highest echelons of political power. The book provides an overview of American Jewish life, including the impact of immigration, domestic antisemitism, the Holocaust, and U.S–Israel relations. A chapter is devoted to protest politics, covering such events as President Grant's Order #11 (expulsion edict), tenants and shirtwaist-makers strikes, the 1943 rabbis march on Washington, and Jewish responses to the Rosenberg case.

The book also covers participation in social movements such as abolition, Jewish defense organizations, and the New Left. A chapter is devoted to Jewish participation in electoral politics, from Jewish interest in early socialism to Jewish advisers and the emergence of Jewish conservatism. There are also biographies of Jewish American officials and political officeholders.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781576073148
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 08/29/2002
Series: Political Participation in America
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 460
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Rafael Medoff, PhD, is visiting scholar in Jewish studies at Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY and associate editor of American Jewish History.

Table of Contents

Forewordxi
Series Forewordxv
1Overview1
A Demographic Portrait of American Jewry1
The Rise and Evolution of the American Jewish Community2
The German Jewish Immigration5
Antebellum American Jewry8
Early Eruptions of Anti-Semitism9
Reforming Judaism11
Judaism as Philanthropy12
The Russian Immigration16
Ideology and the Immigrants23
Leadership in a Voluntary Community24
American Zionism29
Interwar American Jewry35
Interwar Anti-Semitism38
The Impact of the Great Depression44
Responses to Nazism and the Holocaust46
Postwar American Jewry48
Postwar Anti-Semitism60
Jewish Continuity68
References71
2Protest Politics73
Domestic Issues73
Labor Unions as Vehicles of Political Protest78
The Role of the Rabbinate81
Foreign Issues102
The Struggle for Soviet Jewry157
References173
3The Jewish Vote181
References208
4The Jewish Lobby211
The Postwar Fight to Liberalize Immigration232
The Zionist Lobby's New Mission237
U.S. Military Aid for Israel241
A Strategy of Avoiding Clashes246
The Oslo Accords and the Pro-Israel Lobby249
The Case for Israel252
The Jackson Amendment253
The Jewish Lobby's Other Interests260
References263
5Jews in Office267
The Impact of East European Immigration on Jewish Political Office-Holding270
Jews on the Supreme Court275
Anti-Semitism in Congress277
Jewish Members of Congress and the Immigration Question279
Jewish Members of Congress Face the Holocaust288
Jewish Members of Congress in the Postwar Era293
Postwar Patterns in Jewish Political Office-Holding298
The Persistence of Anti-Semitism304
Jewish Members of Congress on Soviet Jewry, Israel, and Vietnam305
Jewish Women in Congress311
Recent Trends and Developments313
References317
Documents319
George Washington: "To Bigotry No Sanction"319
Grant's Expulsion Order320
The Maryland "Jew Bill" of 1826321
Pittsburgh Platform (1885)322
The Johnson Immigration Act323
Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau's "Report to the President" (1944)324
The 1944 Democratic and Republican Party Platforms Embrace Zionism326
The Jackson Amendment326
Key People, Laws, and Terms329
Resources337
Chronology341
Annotated Bibliography345
Index355
About the Author371
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