Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America (Modern Jewish History)
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (614 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0815610009 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 616 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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A full view of a important figure in Jewish American history There are not nearly enough books about a man who did so much to shape modern Jewish American life. A huge figure for so many movements and parts of history; this book covers them all and gives view to all that Louis Marshall really was. A fascinating and important read for anyone interested in the Jewish American story.
--Mark A. Raider, author of Nahum Goldmann: Statesman Without a State . Based on exhaustive research, this richly textured and insightful study is lively, engaging, and generative. It is a significant contribution to American Jewish history and promises to be the cornerstone of scholarship on Marshall for years to come. Louis Marshall, who by any standards has to rank as one of the most important figures in the Jewish community in the first part of the 20th century, has for too long been without a good biog
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.. 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. 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. 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 or
. Matthew Silver is a Middle East history scholar at Max Stern College of Emek Yezreel in Israel. He is the author of several books and articles, including Our Exodus: Leon Uris and the Americanization of Israel’s Founding Story