Recent Scholarship
Jewish
Beasley-McPherson, Hillarie, “Not Just Surviving but Thriving: Jewish Life and Legacy in the Texas Panhandle,” Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, 80 (2008), 3–22.
Goodwin, George M., “The Gateway to Newport’s Jewish Cemetery,” Rhode Island History, 67 (Summer–Fall 2009), 61–74. Heavily illustrated.
Johnson, Val Marie, “‘Look for the Moral and Sex Sides of the Problem’: Investigating Jewishness, Desire, and Discipline at Macy’s Department Store, New York City, 1913,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 18 (Sept. 2009), 457–85.
Kotlowski, Dean J., “Breaching the Paper Walls: Paul V. McNutt and Jewish Refugees to the Philippines, 1938–1939,” Diplomatic History, 33 (Nov. 2009), 865–96.
Leiter, Cary, “The Importance of the Yiddish Theatre in the Evolution of the Modern American Theatre” (Wayne State University, 2008). Order No. DA3338745.
Portnoy, Edward A., “The Creation of a Jewish Cartoon Space in the New York and Warsaw Yiddish Press, 1884–1939” (Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2008). Order No. DA3338438.
Sclar, Arieh, “‘A Sport at Which Jews Excel’: Jewish Basketball in American Society, 1900–1951” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2008). Order No. DA3338249.
Soomekh, Saba, “Between Religion and Culture: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women from the Shahs to Los Angeles” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008). Order No. DA3342051.
Dwyer-Ryan, Meaghan, Susan L. Porter, and Lisa Fagin Davis, Becoming American Jew: Temple Israel of Boston. (Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2009. xx, 259 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-58465-790-3.) Heavily illustrated.
Rimler, Walter, George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 204 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-252-03444-2.)
Rosenbaum, Fred, Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xviii, 439 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-520-25913-3.)
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