Author: Matthew Silver
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815610009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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A milestone in modern Jewish history and American ethnic history, the sweeping influence of Louis Marshall’s career through the 1920s is unprecedented. A tireless advocate for and leader of an array of notable American Jewish organizations and institutions, Marshall also spearheaded civil rights campaigns for other ethnic groups, blazing the trail for the NAACP, Native American groups, and environmental protection causes in the early twentieth century. No comprehensive biography has been published that does justice to Marshall’s richly diverse life as an impassioned defender of Jewish communal interests and as a prominent attorney who reportedly argued more cases before the Supreme Court than any other attorney of his era. Silver eloquently fills that gap, tracing Marshall’s career in detail to reveal how Jewish subgroups of Eastern European immigrants and established Central European elites interacted in New York City and elsewhere to fuse distinctive communal perspectives on specific Jewish issues and broad American affairs. Through the chronicle of Marshall’s life, Silver sheds light on immigration policies, Jewish organizational and social history, environmental activism, and minority politics during World War I, and he bears witness to the rise of American Jewish ethnicity in pre-Holocaust America.
Author: Morton Rosenstock
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Category : Antisemitism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Focuses on the struggle of Marshall (1856-1929) against antisemitism in the USA and worldwide, both before 1913 and afterward in his capacity as president of the American Jewish Committee. Marshall was sensitive to antisemitism from his early years. Realizing that antisemitism in the USA was not comparable to that of the Old World in its intensity and organizational base, he opposed declaring its danger publicly and advocated moderate forms of fighting it. Describes Marshall's campaign for the dismissal of Melvil Dewey from New York state service in 1904 and his struggle against federal immigration restrictions that were covertly anti-Jewish, as well as the antisemitic atmosphere surrounding the Leo Frank case and Marshall's protests against it, and his disdain for the activities of the Ku Klux Klan. Discusses his struggle against the myth of Jewish Bolshevism and "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, " and against Henry Ford's anti-Jewish propaganda campaign and the latter's newspaper, "The Dearborn Independent." Marshall vehemently fought discrimination against Jews in the social, economic, and religious spheres.
Author: Louis Marshall
Publisher: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Author: Cyrus Adler
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Author: Cyrus Adler
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781258195106
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Reprinted With Minor Changes From The American Jewish Year Book, V32, And From The Twenty-Third Annual Report Of The American Jewish Committee.
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Languages : en
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Author: Jerome C. Rosenthal
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Languages : en
Pages : 263
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Author: Sol M. Stroock
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Author: Abraham J. Karp
Publisher: Schocken
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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