The Jew in the American World: A Source Book

by Marcus, Jacob R.

• ISBN13: 9780814325483
• ISBN10: 0814325483
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-05-01
• Publisher: WAYNE STATE UNIV PR (S)

Table of Contents

Preface	23	(4)
PART I The North American Colonial Jew, 1585-1775
The Coming of the Jews to British and Dutch North America, 1585-1655	27	(7)
Joachim Gaunse Denies the Divinity of Jesus, September 12-16, 1589	28	(1)
Peter Stuyvesant, Manhattan, to the Amsterdam Chamber of Directors, September 22, 1654	29	(1)
Amsterdam Jewry's Successful Intercession for the Manhattan Immigrants, January 1655	30	(2)
Rev. Johannes Megapolensis, New Amsterdam, to the Classis, the Governing Board of the Dutch Reformed Church, Amsterdam, Holland, March 18, 1655	32	(1)
The West India Company to Peter Stuyvesant, April 26, 1655	32	(1)
Peter Stuyvesant, New Amsterdam, to the Board of the West India Company, Amsterdam [October 30, 1655]	33	(1)
Political Rights and Disabilities under the English, 1669-1762	34	(6)
The Fundamental Constitution of Carolina, 1669	35	(2)
Frame of Government of Pennsylvania, 1682	37	(1)
The Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1691	37	(1)
The British Naturalization Act, 1740	37	(1)
Why the Court Refused to Naturalize Aaron Lopez, Superior Court Rhode Island, Newport, SS. March Term, 1762	38	(2)
Living as a Jew in a Christian Community, 1658-1760	40	(5)
Jacob Lumbrozo Denies the Divinity of Jesus, February 23, 1658	41	(1)
The Dread of Intermarriage, June 7, 1743	42	(1)
Manuel Josephson Befriends a New England Poet, October 15, 1760	43	(2)
Culture and Acculturation, 1722-1770	45	(5)
Harvard Honors and Appoints Its First Jewish Member of the Faculty, May 22, 1722	46	(1)
The Jews of New York City, November 2, 1748	47	(1)
Rhode Island College Welcomes Jewish Students, April 17, 1770	48	(2)
How They Made a Living, 1754-1763	50	(7)
Rival Boston Tobacconists, a Jew and a Gentile, Trade Verbal Blows, October 21, 29; November 5, 1754	51	(1)
Isaac Moses Becomes an Indentured Servant, May 19, 1758	52	(1)
Barnard Gratz Writes to Brother Michael Who Was about to Come to America, November 20, 1758	53	(1)
Isaac Delyon of Savannah Ships Barnard Gratz of Philadelphia Rice and Hides in Exchange for Groceries, September 24, 1760	54	(1)
Isaac Elizer and Samuel Moses of Newport Dispatch a Ship to Africa for a Cargo of Slaves, October 29, 1762	55	(1)
Abraham Chapman [Chapman Abraham] Escapes Being Burnt at the Stake in Pontiac's Rebellion, 1763	56	(1)
The Colonial Jewish Community, 1728 to Ca. 1770	57	(10)
The Oldest Extant Constitution of a North American Jewish Community, September 15, 1728	58	(3)
Religious Laxity in the Backcountry, September 14, 1757	61	(1)
Hired Officiants in New York City, Slaughterer, Beadle, Minister, 1765-1768	62	(3)
Philadelphia Sets Out to Establish a Synagog, ca. 1770	65	(2)
Jewish Education, 1755-1762	67	(3)
The First All-Day School [December 7, 1755]	68	(1)
The Search for a School Teacher, December 16, 1760	68	(1)
Mr. Abrahams Must Teach the Three R's [April 25, 1762]	69	(1)
Jewish Culture in British North America, 1766	70	(3)
Isaac Pinto's Translations of Various Sephardic Hebrew Prayers, 1766	71	(2)
Charity, Social Welfare, Compassion, 1755-1773	73	(6)
Obras Pias: Pious Works	73	(6)
Jewish Social Life in the North American English Colonies, 1761-1773	79	(5)
Newport's Jewish Club, November 25 to December 16, 1761	80	(1)
Miriam Gratz, Philadelphia, to Barnard Gratz, London, Her Brother-in-Law, August 26, 1769	81	(1)
Teenager Esther Hart of Charles Town, South Carolina, Writes to Aaron Lopez, the Newport Merchant, September 3, 1773	82	(2)
The Concept of Kelal Yisrael in Colonial America, 1759-1774	84	(9)
Newport Jews Ask New York's Jews to Help Them Build a Synagog, March 21, 1759	85	(1)
Henry Isreall of Jamaica Wants Aaron Lopez of Newport to Send Him Kosher Meat, July 8, 1770	86	(1)
After a Devastating Hurricane in the West Indies, the Congregation in St. Eustatius Turns to New York Jewry for Help, September 7, 1772	87	(1)
Congregation Gate of Heaven, London, Asks American Jews to Aid the Oppressed Jews of Hebron in Palestine, May 5, 1773	87	(1)
An Apostle from the Holy Land, April 17, 1774	88	(5)
PART II The Early National Period, 1776-1840
Political Rights of American Jews, 1776-1809	93	(12)
The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America, In Congress, July 4, 1776	94	(1)
Moses M. Hays Refuses to Sign a Discriminatory Test Oath, July 11, 1776	95	(1)
The Maryland Constitution Permits Christians Only to Hold Office, November 11, 1776	95	(1)
New York State Is the First State to Emancipate Jews, April 20, 1777	96	(1)
Philadelphia Jewry Asks for Political Equality, December 23, 1783	97	(2)
The Northwest Ordinance Implicitly Emancipates Jews in All New States, July 13, 1787	99	(1)
Jonas Phillips Asks the Constitutional Convention to Emancipate Pennsylvania's Jews, September 7, 1787	99	(1)
Constitution of the United States, 1778-1791	100	(1)
Sunday Legislation in New York State, February 12, 1788	101	(1)
Jacob Henry Pleads for Political Equality, December 6, 1809	102	(3)
Jews in the General Community, 1780-1816	105	(10)
Francis Sheftall Writes to Her Husband, July 20, 1780	105	(2)
The Gentiles of Philadelphia Help the Synagog, April 30, 1788	107	(1)
Newport Jews Exchange Letters with President George Washington, 1790	108	(2)
Mordecai M. Noah's Dismissal from Office because of His Jewish Religion, April 25, 1816	110	(5)
The Cultural Level of American Jewry, 1810-1839	115	(8)
Grace Seixas Nathan, Poet, 1810 and on	116	(1)
Penina Moise, Poet, 1820 and on	117	(1)
Rachel Mordecai Lazarus, an Intellectual, 1827-1838	118	(3)
Isaac Gomez, Jr., Anthologist, 1829	121	(1)
A Poem by Joseph Lyons, May 23, 1834	122	(1)
Octavia Harby Moses, Poet, 1839	122	(1)
Making A Living in the United States, 1782-1840	123	(8)
Haym Salomon, Broker to the Office of Finance, November 16, 1782	124	(1)
Abraham Seixas Advertises His Wares, 1794	125	(1)
Lt. Col. Aaron Levy, Land Promoter, July 4, 1821	126	(1)
Aunt Sally, Businesswoman, May 19, 1825	127	(1)
Lewis Polock, Pantaloon Prince of the Peninsula, 1840	128	(3)
American Jewish Communities, 1810-1812	131	(8)
Constitution and Charter of Rodeph Shalom, Philadelphia, 1810-1812	132	(4)
Hannah Adams Surveys American Jewry, 1812	136	(3)
Religious Life in the United States, 1787-1826	139	(8)
Dr. Benjamin Rush Describes a Jewish Wedding, June 27, 1787	140	(2)
Orthodox Rachel Lazarus Seeks a More Jewish Community, 1792(?)	142	(2)
Jacob Mordecai Dedicates Beth Shalome, Richmond's Synagog, September 15, 1822	144	(1)
Goals of America's First Reform Synagog, 1826	145	(2)
Educating Young Jews, 1821-1850s	147	(10)
Moses Elias Levy's New Style Community, May 9, 1821	148	(2)
Isaac Leeser's Proposed School, March 8, 1835	150	(2)
Rosa Mordecai's Recollection of the First Hebrew Sunday School, 1850s	152	(5)
Jewish Culture, 1820-1840	157	(7)
Israel Vindicated: The Historicity of Jesus, 1820	158	(2)
Isaac Leeser's Views on the Education of Jewish Girls, 1835	160	(2)
Isaac Leeser Pleads for Equality of Rights for Jews, December 8, 1840	162	(2)
Social Welfare Activity, 1819-1837	164	(7)
The Female Hebrew Benevolent Society of Philadelphia, 1819-1837	165	(3)
United Hebrew Beneficent Society of Philadelphia, 1822-1837	168	(3)
A Jewish Family in the Old South, 1812-1837	171	(6)
Childhood in South Carolina, By Raphael Jacob Moses, 1812-1825	171	(4)
The Ethical Will of Deborah Moses, 1837	175	(2)
The Kinship of All Jews, 1818-1840	177	(13)
Mordecai M. Noah, Proto-Zionist, April 17, 1818	179	(1630)
Noah's Proclamation to World Jewry, September 15, 1825	1809
Noah Launches the Colony of Ararat at Buffalo, September 15, 1825	182	(1)
Cincinnati Jewry Asks Charleston Jewry for Aid in Building a Synagog, July 3, 1825	183	(2)
John Forsyth, Secretary of State, Instructs the American Consul at Alexandria to Intercede for the Oppressed Jews in Damascus, August 14, 1840	185	(1)
Philadelphia Jewry Protests against Persecution of Jews in Damascus, August 27, 1840	185	(5)
PART III The German Period, 1841-1924
The Coming of the Germans, 1853-1880	190	(6)
Isaac Jalonick of Texas Writes a Letter, May 28, 1853	191	(1)
A California Immigrant, January 13, 1854	192	(1)
America: A Land of Milk and Honey, 1860	193	(1)
Heinrich Bachman Leaves for America, September 30, 1880	194	(2)
Jew-Hatred and General Grant, 1862-1870	196	(7)
General Grant's Orders Discriminating against Jews, November 9, 1862 to September 14, 1868	198	(4)
President Grant Pleads on Behalf of the Persecuted Rumanian Jews, December 8, 1870	202	(1)
The Jew as Citizen, 1862-1888	203	(7)
Matron Pember Makes Her Rounds in the 7000-Bed Confederate Army Hospital, 1862	204	(2)
``First Americans and Then Israelites'': An Editorial in The American Israelite, August 23, 1872	206	(1)
Keep the Jews Out of America [By Telemachus T. Timayenis], 1888	207	(3)
The Secular Culture of the American Jew, 1855-1896	210	(9)
On the Religious Proscription of Catholics, By Philip Phillips, July 4, 1855	211	(2)
Before Women Were Human Beings: Adventures of an American [Female] Fellow in German Universities of the 1890s, By Ida H. Hyde, 1893-1896	213	(6)
The Jew and the Economy, 1861-1895	219	(9)
From Peddler to Regimental Commander, By Louis Gratz, 1861-1862	220	(4)
The Strauses Expand Their Department Store Holdings, By Isidor Straus, January 1893	224	(2)
Successful Businesswomen, 1895	226	(2)
The Attempts to Create a National American Jewish Community, 1841-1906	228	(10)
The First Formal Attempt to Organize All of American Jewry, July 12, 1841	229	(4)
The First National Census of American Jewry, 1878	233	(2)
Organizing the American Jewish Committee, By Louis Marshall, January 12, 1906	235	(3)
Judaism Under the Germans, 1873-1902	238	(11)
The Constitution of the First Permanent National Jewish Association of Synagogs, July 9, 1873	240	(1)
The Terefah---Unkosher---Banquet, July 11, 1883	240	(1)
The Pittsburgh Liberal Religious Platform, November 16-18, 1885	241	(2)
The Preamble and Constitution of the Jewish Theological Seminary, May 9, 1886	243	(1)
The New Charter of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, February 20, 1902	244	(1)
What a Jewish Girl Would Not Do if She Were a Rabbi, By Ray Frank, May 23, 1890	244	(3)
Principles Adopted by the [Orthodox] Jewish Congregational Union of America, June 8, 1898	247	(2)
Jewish Education and Culture in the German Period, 1855-1915	249	(12)
A New York City Jewish Day School, April to May, 1855	251	(2)
The Education of Jewish Women in America, By I. J. Benjamin, 1859-1862	253	(2)
Louis Marshall Questions the Place of Hebrew in Public Education, May 12, 1908	255	(3)
Louis D. Brandeis Addresses the Educated Jew, January 1915	258	(3)
American Jewish Philanthropy in the German Period, 1871-1923	261	(17)
Constitution of Chebra [Society] Achim Rachmonim, December 24, 1871	262	(4)
Organizing the National Council of Jewish Women, September 7, 1893	266	(4)
Louis Marshall and the American Jewish Committee Organize a Relief Organization during World War I, September 1, 1914	270	(1)
Joint Distribution Committee Statement Showing Funds Appropriated for the Relief of Jewish War Sufferers, November 1914 to June 30, 1921	271	(1)
Jacob Schiff and Julius Rosenwald's Plan to Restore Devastated Europe after the Armistice of World War I, By Jacob Schiff, November 21, 1918	272	(1)
Federating Charities and the Creation of an Overall Jewish Community, By Solomon Lowenstein, May 13-16, 1923	273	(5)
Home and Sociality, 1858-1897	278	(8)
The Criteria for a Governess, By Mordecai Benjamin, November 28, 1858	279	(1)
Sophie Heller Goldsmith's Courtship and Marriage, By Sophia Heller Goldsmith, 1861-1865	280	(2)
Isaac Mayer Wise Announces His Second Marriage, April/May, 1876	282	(1)
Constitution of the Phoenix Club, Cincinnati, 1897	282	(4)
Kinship: Every Jew Is Responsible for His Fellow Jew, 1859-1906	286	(10)
San Francisco Jewry Appeals to the United States Senate to Denounce the Abduction of Edgar Mortara, January 15, 1859	288	(2)
Jacob H. Schiff Intercedes for the Jews of Morocco, November 21, 1905	290	(4)
Origin of the Galveston Movement, By Jacob H. Schiff, October 25, 1906	294	(2)
PART IV The East European Period, 1852-1924
Jews and Their Variant Views in Matters Political, 1906-1911	296	(7)
The Condition of Working Women, from the Working Woman's Viewpoint, By Rose H. Phelps Stokes, New York City, 1906	297	(2)
Schiff, the Banker, Chides Taft, the President: American Jewish Citizens Experience Political Disabilities, By Jacob Schiff, February 20, 1911	299	(4)
The East European Jew as Citizen, 1918-1924	303	(12)
Heroes Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor during World War I, September to October 1918	304	(1)
Abraham Krotoshinsky, a Polish Immigrant, Rescues the ``Lost'' Battalion, By Abraham Krotoshinsky, October 7-8, 1918	305	(4)
Independence Day in the Ghetto, July 4, 1924	309	(6)
The New Immigrants---The East Europeans---Acquire Secular Culture, 1902-1947	315	(6)
Cultured Russian Women Emigres, By Hutchins Hapgood, October 1902	316	(1)
The Impact of Morris R. Cohen, a Cultured East European Immigrant, By Milton R. Konvitz, 1947	317	(4)
The East Europeans Struggle to Survive, 1889-1924	321	(11)
New York's East European Working Women, By Julia Richman, 1893	323	(2)
A North Dakota Farmer, By Bennie Greenberg, April 22, 1897	325	(1)
The Protocol of Peace in the Cloak, Suit, and Skirt Trade, September 2, 1910	326	(3)
A Small Town Emigre Merchant, By Jacob R. Marcus, 1889-1924	329	(3)
The Kehillah of New York City and the American Jewish Congress, 1914-1918	332	(8)
Charter of the Kehillah (Jewish Community) of New York City, April 5, 1914	334	(1)
Rabbi Judah L. Magnes, Chairman of the Jewish Community of New York City, Presents His Annual Report, November 8, 1914	335	(2)
Resolutions of the American Jewish Congress, Philadelphia, December 15-18, 1918	337	(3)
The Religious Life of the East European Immigrants, ca. 1890-1916	340	(9)
Holy Moses, A Peddler, Brings the Jewish Gospel to the Gentiles, By Beryl B. Gordon, ca. 1890	341	(1)
A Camden, New Jersey Combination Synagog and Burial Society, 1894	342	(4)
A Socialist Parodies the Ten Commandments, By Morris Winchevsky, 1895	346	(1)
A New Supplication for a Woman Whose Husband Has Deserted Her, 1916	347	(2)
Jewish Education and Culture in the World of the East European Newcomers, 1893-1918	349	(14)
Growing Up in New Albany, Indiana, By Ruth Sapinsky, 1893-1906	351	(2)
A Russian Jew Recalls the Day He Left Home, By Joseph Bovshover, ca. 1896-1897	353	(2)
The Menorah Movement: A Synthesis of American, Hebraic, and Judaic Culture, 1906-1918	355	(1)
East European Type Hebrew Schools, By Alexander Dushkin, 1918	356	(5)
New York City's Yiddish Press, By Samuel Margoshes, 1918	361	(2)
The East European Newcomers Help Themselves, 1892-1924	363	(12)
Constitution and By-Laws of the Brotherly Benevolent Association Linas Hazedek [Hospice] of Hudson County, New Jersey, February 5, 1892-1975	364	(3)
Instructing an Immigrant Jewish Woman How to Keep House, 1903	367	(2)
New York City Free Loan Societies, By Samuel Seinfel, 1917	369	(2)
The Jewish Migration Problem---How It Has Been Met, By Albert Rosenblatt, Vice President, Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), 1924	371	(4)
The Social Life of the East European Jewish Immigrant, 1905	375	(6)
Life on New York's Lower East Side, By A. H. Fromenson, 1905	376	(5)
Anti-Zionism, Zionism, Aid to Jews in Distress: The Oneness of Jewry, 1897-1921	381	(15)
Rabbi Isaac M. Wise Rejects Zionism, July 6, 1897	382	(2)
The Basel Program, August 30, 1897	384	(1)
The Balfour Declaration, November 2, 1917	384	(1)
Louis D. Brandeis Appeals to America's Educated Jews to Espouse Zionism, January 1915	385	(1)
Henrietta Szold Helps Rebuild Palestine, October 7, 1921	386	(3)
American Orthodox Newcomers Pioneer in Helping Their East European Fellow Jews, By M. E. Ravage, August to October 4, 1914	389	(1)
The Natives and the ``Germans'' Establish the American Jewish Relief Committee, By M. E. Ravage, October 25, 1914	390	(1)
The East European Proletarians Organize the People's Relief Committee, By M. E. Ravage, August 1915	391	(5)
PART V Emerging American Period, 1925-1960
Acceptance and Rejection, 1932-1952	396	(10)
Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, By Felix S. Cohen, 1932	398	(3)
The New York Law against Discrimination, March 12, 1945	401	(2)
President Truman's Veto of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, June 25, 1952	403	(3)
Jews and Gentiles, 1928-1958	406	(8)
The Righteous Gentile, By Abby G. A. Rockefeller, January 1928	407	(1)
The Gentile Declaration of Independence from the Jew Dictatorship, Jew Mongers, Jew Monopolists, and the Jew ``Secret Controls'' in the United States, Gentile Protocols, 1941	408	(2)
A Young Jewish Idealist, By Sidney Rabbinowitz, April 26, 1943	410	(1)
Jewish Unemployment Problems, Chicago, Report of Activities, October 1954	411	(2)
The Jewish Braille Institute of America, Inc., November 13, 1958	413	(1)
Jews and the World of the Secular Sciences, 1944-1955	414	(8)
Selman Abraham Waksman and His Miracle Mold, By Al Bohling, 1944	415	(2)
Albert Einstein and His Jewishness, By David M. Szonyi, 1979	417	(5)
The Economic World of the American Jew, 1922-1966	422	(7)
Tillie Lewis, Industrialist, By Caroline Bird, 1934-1966	423	(3)
Samuel Goldwyn: Cinema Perfectionist, By Albin Krebs, 1922-1959	426	(3)
The Overall Structured Community, Locally and Nationally, 1945-1949	429	(6)
Jewish Community Council of Essex County, N.J., 1945	430	(1)
Allied Jewish Community Council of Denver, 1949	431	(1)
Plan for a Permanent Overall Organization of American Jews, 1947	432	(3)
The Jewish Religion and Its Adherents, 1937-1960	435	(12)
The Zionist Paragraphs in the Columbus Platform, May 27, 1937	437	(1)
Religious Trends in Reform Jewry, 1953	437	(2)
The Conservative Movement in Judaism, By Simon Greenberg, 1955	439	(2)
In Orthodoxy the Woman Is Not Inferior, By Menachem Schneerson, May 27, 1957	441	(2)
Sabbath Eve in an American Hassidic Home, 1959	443	(2)
Some Premises of Reconstructionism, By Mordecai M. Kaplan, April 1960	445	(2)
Jewish Education and Culture, 1940s(?)-1966	447	(11)
The Mezuza, By Karl Shapiro, 1940s(?)	450	(1)
All I Could Think of Was a Hot Pastrami Sandwich, By Jacob Philip Rudin, March 1943	451	(2)
Brandeis University Is One Year Old, By Maurice L. Zigmond, 1949	453	(2)
The American Jewish Woman of Tomorrow, By Mrs. Allen I. Edles, 1958	455	(1)
The Value of a Jewish Day School Education, By Alvin Irwin Schiff, 1966	456	(2)
Philanthropy and Philanthropists, 1925-1986	458	(14)
Dr. Joseph A. Rosen Reports on Jewish Colonization Work in Russia, September 12-13, 1925	460	(1)
Hadassah President's Report, By Rose G. Jacobs, 1937	461	(3)
Address of Governor Herbert H. Lehman at Emergency Conference of the United Jewish Appeal at the Harmonie Club, New York City, April 2, 1939	464	(3)
Once and For All, Cary Grant Is Not Jewish! By Leo Gallin, 1986	467	(2)
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1925-1956	469	(3)
The Jewish Social Background, 1950s-1960	472	(8)
Coming-of-Age in the South: The Southern Jewish American Princess in the Fabulous Fifties, By Arlene G. Peck, 1950s	473	(3)
``Treat Your Sister Like a Little Lady,'' By Irving Leibowitz, May 2, 1958	476	(1)
The Jewish Community Center, By Herbert Millman, 1960	477	(3)
The Holocaust, Israel, and American Jewry, 1945-1950	480	(17)
Chaplain Abraham J. Klausner and Germany's Displaced Jews, By Abraham J. Klausner, 1945	481	(5)
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, May 14, 1948	486	(3)
David Ben Gurion and Jacob Blaustein Agree that American Jewry's Prime Loyalty Is to the United States, August 23, 1950	489	(8)
PART VI The Flowering of American Jewry, 1960s-2000
Equal Rights for Jews, 1964-1980s	497	(8)
The Civil Rights Law of 1964, July 2, 1964	498	(2)
Church-State Relations in America Today, By Jill L. Kahn, 1980s	500	(5)
The Jew as Citizen, 1970s-1990	505	(13)
The Campus: Conflict or Challenge? By Alfred Jospe, 1970s	507	(2)
Beware of the Jew, 1980s	509	(1)
Arthur J. Goldberg, 1908-1990, By Eric Pace	510	(5)
Jews in the Kansas City Country Club, December 1990	515	(3)
The Secular Culture of the American Jew, 1976-1978	518	(7)
I Said That I Was an American, a Jew, a Writer by Trade, By Saul Bellow, November 14, 1976	520	(2)
Rosalyn Yalow Refuses to Accept a Woman of the Year Award, By Rosalyn Yalow, June 12, 1978	522	(3)
Making a Living in America, 1973-1990	525	(13)
A German Jewish Refugee Entrepreneur Sells Canaries, Gerbils, and Guppies, By Roger Ricklefs, June 21, 1973	527	(3)
Economic Improvement Is Not the Only or the Main Purpose of Life, By Arthur F. Burns, May 4, 1976	530	(1)
A Letter to Pop, By Art Buchwald, July 4, 1976	531	(1)
William S. Paley and the Columbia Broadcasting System: A Review of Sally Bedell Smith's In All His Glory: The Life of William S. Paley, By Christopher Buckley, November 4, 1990	532	(6)
The American Jewish Community, 1964-1986	538	(8)
Services Provided by the Local Jewish Community, Locally, Nationally, Internationally, By S. P. Goldberg, 1964	540	(1)
The Greater Boston Area Jewish Ensemble, 1985	541	(2)
Data Highlights of Greater Kansas City Jewry, 1986	543	(3)
American Jewish Religion on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century, 1963-1990	546	(17)
The Faith of a Jewish Woman, By Jane B. Bloch, May 4, 1963	547	(2)
The Many Voices of Orthodoxy, By Michael Wyschogrod, December 19, 1966	549	(1)
The First American Woman Rabbi, By Sally Priesand, 1972-1975	550	(3)
Conservative Judaism, 1978-1988	553	(4)
The Central Conference of American Rabbis: Resolution on Abortion Rights, June 23-26, 1980	557	(1)
The Havurah Movement Comes of Age, By Jonathan Shenker, April 2, 1982	557	(2)
The American Council for Judaism Reaffirms Its Position, Summer 1983	559	(1)
Homosexuals and the Reform Rabbinate, June 25, 1990	560	(3)
Jewish Education and Culture, 1961-1968	563	(9)
A Scientist Remains within the Ambit of Judaism, By Enoch Gordis, April 1961	565	(2)
The Quest for Jewish Identity in America, By John Slawson, June 2, 1963	567	(2)
My Jewishness Has Always Been a Source of Pride, By David Dubinsky, January 16, 1968	569	(3)
Millionaires and Paupers, 1965-1984	572	(8)
The Shabby Millionaire, September 1, 1965	573	(3)
Interest-Free Loans to Immigrants, May 1, 1983	576	(1)
A Survivor of the Holocaust Has a Jar Brimming with Quarters, By Julian Mincer, December 9, 1984	577	(3)
Problems and Challenges, 1964-1989	580	(11)
The Roots of Negro Animosity towards Jews, By Steven Prystowsky, March 25, 1964	582	(3)
Men Talk about the 2nd Time Around, By Jane Biberman, January 29-30, 1987	585	(3)
The Impact of Feminism on American Jewish Life, By Sylvia Barack Fishman, 1989	588	(3)
The Oneness of World Jewry: Israel, Vatican II, The Holocaust, the Ethiopians, 1964-1991	591	(23)
Does Zionism Have a Future, By Eliezer Livneh, 1964	595	(3)
The Catholic Church Reproves Every Form of Persecution, Nostra Aetate Declaration, October 28, 1965	598	(2)
Report to the Honourable Jimmy Carter, President of the United States, By Elie Wiesel, Chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust, September 27, 1979	600	(3)
Elie Wiesel, Like a Prophet of Old, Chides President Reagan, April 19, 1985	603	(3)
The Revolution American Jewry Is Sleeping Through, By Sholom Stern, February 1, 1990	606	(3)
Operation Solomon: Flying Ethiopian Jews to Israel, Bribes and Precision Helped the Rescue, By Helen Davis, May 24-25, 1991	609	(3)
Helping Jews in the Old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, By Jacob R. Marcus, 1990s	612	(2)
The Onset of the Twenty-First Century: The Future of The American Jew	614	(5)
Acknowledgments	619	(4)
Source Notes	623	(16)
Index	639