Zionism

Query: Early 20th Century American Zionist Poets

Hopefully someone in the H-Net world can help me with a resource I have come across:

While parsing through issues of the Memphis Jewish newspaper the Hebrew Watchman from the 1920s and 1930s, I noticed that each week they published a poem by one of a handful of Zionist authors, some of whom seem local and some who are national and global names. About 75 percent of those published were by Abe Cohn and Max Boshwitz, and they routinely sold anthologies of each man's work in the newspaper. I am uncertain if these were local figures or people with prominence beyond West Tennessee.

Author:

Paul Mendes-Flohr

Reviewer:

Robert Erlewine

Erlewine on Mendes-Flohr, 'Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent'

Paul Mendes-Flohr. Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 440 pp. $26.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-15304-0.

Reviewed by Robert Erlewine (Illinois Wesleyan University) Published on H-Judaic (May, 2019) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53910

Author:

Adam M. Howard

Reviewer:

Hadas Fischer

Fischer on Howard, 'Sewing the Fabric of Statehood: Garment Unions, American Labor, and the Establishment of the State of Israel'

Adam M. Howard. Sewing the Fabric of Statehood: Garment Unions, American Labor, and the Establishment of the State of Israel. Working Class in American History Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017. 176 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-04146-4; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08301-3.

Reviewed by Hadas Fischer (Tel Aviv University) Published on H-Judaic (June, 2019) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow (University of South Carolina)

Author:

Amir Engel

Reviewer:

Jay Howard Geller

Geller on Engel, 'Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography'

Amir Engel. Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. xiv + 226 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-42863-5; ISBN 978-0-226-42877-2.

Reviewed by Jay Howard Geller (Case Western Reserve University) Published on H-Judaic (January, 2019) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Author:

Adam M. Howard

Reviewer:

Kenny Kolander

Kolander on Howard, 'Sewing the Fabric of Statehood: Garment Unions, American Labor, and the Establishment of the State of Israel'

Reviewed by Kenny Kolander (West Virginia University) Published on H-Diplo (April, 2018) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Lawrence J. Epstein

Reviewer:

Brian Horowitz

Horowitz on Epstein, 'The Dream of Zion: The Story of the First Zionist Congress'

Lawrence J. Epstein. The Dream of Zion: The Story of the First Zionist Congress. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. 172 pp. $36.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4422-5466-4.

Reviewed by Brian Horowitz (Tulane University) Published on H-Judaic (January, 2017) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow

A Perspective from Our Day on Theodor Herzl’s Dream Conference

Author:

Ofer Nordheimer Nur

Reviewer:

Jay Michaelson

Michaelson on Baader and Gillerman and Lerner and eds., 'Jewish Masculinities: German Jews, Gender, and History' and Nur, 'Eros and Tragedy: Jewish Male Fantasies and the Masculine Revolution of Zionism'

Benjamin Maria Baader, Sharon Gillerman, Paul Lerner, eds. Jewish Masculinities: German Jews, Gender, and History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. viii + 242 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-00213-6; $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-00206-8; $23.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-253-00221-1.Ofer Nordheimer Nur. Eros and Tragedy: Jewish Male Fantasies and the Masculine Revolution of Zionism. Israel: Society, Culture, and History Series. Brighton: Academic Studies Press, 2014. xxiv + 220 pp.

Author:

Theodore Sasson

Reviewer:

Noam Pianko

Pianko on Sasson, 'The New American Zionism'

Theodore Sasson. The New American Zionism. New York: New York University Press, 2015. x + 218 pp. $39.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8147-6086-4; $24.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4798-0611-9.

Reviewed by Noam Pianko (University of Washington) Published on H-Judaic (February, 2015) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus

American Jews Remain Connected to Israel

Author:

Moshe Behar, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, eds.

Reviewer:

Orit Bashkin

Bashkin on Behar and Ben-Dor Benite, 'Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893-1958'

Moshe Behar, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, eds. Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893-1958. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2013. xxxix + 257 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-58465-884-9; $26.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-58465-885-6.

Reviewed by Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago) Published on H-Judaic (May, 2014) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus

Author:

Gil Troy

Reviewer:

Sonja Wentling

Wentling on Troy, 'Moynihan's Moment: America's Fight against Zionism as Racism'

Gil Troy. Moynihan's Moment: America's Fight against Zionism as Racism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Illustrations. x + 357 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-992030-3.

Reviewed by Sonja Wentling (Concordia College) Published on H-Diplo (June, 2013) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach

Moynihan’s Crusade against UN Resolution 3379: Just a Moment in Time or the Revival of American Exceptionalism?

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