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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• ROCK, HOWARD B.

Titel

The Early Years of "American Jewish History: Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society" and the Minute Books of Congregation Shearith Israel

Ist Teil von

• American Jewish history, 2015-04, Vol.99 (2), p.119-144

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• An article in the North American Review, stating that the Jews were a "parasitic race" that had contributed little to America, particularly during the civil war, gave further impetus to the movement. [...]the communal leaders formed the American Jewish Historical Society in order to record and describe the contributions of Jews in the United States. The executive board included Semitic-language scholar dr. Morris Jastrow of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia court of common Pleas Judge Mayer Sulzberger who ultimately gave his prized library in Judaica to the Jewish Theological Seminary; lawyer and historian N. Taylor Phillips; Simon wolf, annalist of American Jewish soldiers in the civil war, and immigration attorney and author/historian Max Kohler, who wrote on Haym Salomon, Rebecca Franks, and the dreyfuss Affair.4 The first issue of the AJHS's official journal, Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society (PAJHS), the precursor of American Jewish History, opened with Straus's inaugural address as president of the society.