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Making Judaism Safe for America

World War I and the Origins of Religious Pluralism

By: Jessica Cooperman

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Making Judaism Safe for America

World War I and the Origins of Religious Pluralism

By: Jessica Cooperman

Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society A compelling story of how Judaism became integrated into mainstream American religion In 1956, the sociologist Will Herberg described the United States as a “triple-melting pot,” a country in which “three religious communities - Protestant, Catholic, Jewish – are America.” This description of an American society in which Judaism and Catholicism stood as equal partners to Protestantism begs explanation, as Protestantism had long been the dominant religious force in the U.S. How did Americans come to embrace Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism as “the three facets of American religion?”Historians have often turned to the experiences of World War II in order to explain this transformation. However, World War I’s impact on changing conceptions of American religion is too often overlooked. This book argues that World War I programs designed to protect the moral welfare of American servicemen brought new ideas about religious pluralism into structures of the military. Jessica Cooperman shines a light on how Jewish organizations were able to convince both military and civilian leaders that Jewish organizations, alongside Christian ones, played a necessary role in the moral and spiritual welfare of America’s fighting forces. This alone was significant, because acceptance within the military was useful in modeling acceptance in the larger society. The leaders of the newly formed Jewish Welfare Board, which became the military’s exclusive Jewish partner in the effort to maintain moral welfare among soldiers, used the opportunities created by war to negotiate a new place for Judaism in American society. Using the previously unexplored archival collections of the JWB, as well as soldiers’ letters, memoirs and War Department correspondence, Jessica Cooperman shows that the Board was able to exert strong control over expressions of Judaism within the military. By introducing young soldiers to what it saw as appropriately Americanized forms of Judaism and Jewish identity, the JWB hoped to prepare a generation of American Jewish men to assume positions of Jewish leadership while fitting comfortably into American society. This volume shows how, at this crucial turning point in world history, the JWB managed to use the policies and power of the U.S. government to advance its own agenda: to shape the future of American Judaism and to assert its place as a truly American religion.

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NYU Press

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1479895997

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9781479895991

The Ultimate Terrorists

By: Jessica Stern

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The Ultimate Terrorists

By: Jessica Stern

As bad as they are, why aren't terrorists worse? With biological, chemical and nuclear weapons at hand, they easily could be. Jessica Stern argues that the nuclear threat of the Cold War has been replaced by the more imminent threat of terrorist attacks with weapons of mass destruction.

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228

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Harvard University Press

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0674003942

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9780674003941

Murder, She Wrote: Murder in Season

By: Jessica Fletcher,Jon Land

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Murder, She Wrote: Murder in Season

By: Jessica Fletcher,Jon Land

“This appealing—if murder-prone—world is a splendid place to spend a bit of the holiday season.”--Publishers Weekly Christmas has come to Cabot Cove, but a peaceful holiday season is not in the cards after Jessica Fletcher is pulled into a centuries-old mystery in the latest entry in this USA Today bestselling series. With work on the reconstruction of her beloved home almost complete, Jessica Fletcher is in high holiday spirits, spearheading the annual Christmas parade and preparing for her nephew Grady and his family to come to town. The only thing dampening the holiday cheer is the discovery of two sets of bones on Jessica’s property: one set ancient, the other only about a year old. It’s concluded that they were both placed there during the reconstruction, and Jessica suspects that, despite the centuries between them, the remains might be connected. Soon tabloid reporter Tad Hollenbeck arrives in Cabot Cove to write a story about what he calls “the murder capital of the country.” But when Tad himself is murdered, Jessica speculates that his arrival, his death, and the discovery of the bones are all somehow linked. As Jessica digs deeper to find the connection between the bones and Tad’s murder, everything seems to come back to a mystery that has long plagued Cabot Cove. If she wants to solve the case, she’ll need to delve into her beloved town’s dark history, or else this holiday season may be her last....

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338

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Penguin

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1984804375

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9781984804372

The Hebrew Orient

Palestine in Jewish American Visual Culture, 1901-1938

By: Jessica L. Carr

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The Hebrew Orient

Palestine in Jewish American Visual Culture, 1901-1938

By: Jessica L. Carr

In the decades before the establishment of the State of Israel, striking images of Palestine circulated widely among Jewish Americans. These images visualized "the Orient" for American viewers, creating the possibility for Jewish Americans to understand themselves through imagining "Oriental" counterparts. In The Hebrew Orient, Jessica L. Carr shows how images of the Holy Land made Jewish Americans feel at home in the United States by imagining "the Orient" as heritage. Carr's analyses of periodicals from Hadassah and the Zionist Organization of America, art calendars from the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, the Jewish Encyclopedia, and the Jewish exhibit at the 1933 World's Fair are richly illustrated. What emerges is a new understanding of the place of Orientalism in American Zionism. Creating a narrative about their origins, Jewish Americans looked east to understand themselves as Westerners.

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State University of New York Press

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1438480849

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9781438480848

Biliary Tract Surgery, An Issue of Surgical Clinics

By: Jessica A Wernberg

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Biliary Tract Surgery, An Issue of Surgical Clinics

By: Jessica A Wernberg

Editor Jessica Wernberg and authors review the current management and procedures in biliary tract surgery. Articles will cover: anatomy and embryology of the biliary tract, bile duct cysts, symptomatic cholelithiasis and functional disorders of the biliary tract, gallstone pancreatitis, technical aspects of bile duct evaluation and exploration, iatrogenic biliary injuries, proximal biliary malignancy, distal biliary malignancy, gallbladder cancer, bile duct metabolism and lithogenesis, unusual complications of gallstones, endoscopic management of biliary disorders, biliary issues in the bariatric population, technical aspects of cholecystectomy, cholecystitis, and more!

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323290175

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9780323290173

Murder, She Wrote: A Killer Christmas

By: Jessica Fletcher,Terrie Farley Moran

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Murder, She Wrote: A Killer Christmas

By: Jessica Fletcher,Terrie Farley Moran

It’s Christmastime in Cabot Cove, but there’s more homicide than ho-ho-ho in the newest entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series. Christmas is not an easy time to sell a house, but in Boston tycoon John Bragdon, Cabot Cove Realtor Eve Simpson has found a buyer for the old Jarvis homestead. Unfortunately, Eve gets a lump of coal in her stocking in the form of Kenny Jarvis, who has been missing for years and presumed dead but has now come back to stop his sister from selling their childhood home. Eve presses on, organizing a welcome dinner for Bragdon and his wife, Marlene, to meet the leading citizens of the town, including Jessica Fletcher. Dinner is interrupted by an uninvited guest—not Santa but Kenny, who threateningly promises Marlene she will never live in his house. When Marlene is found dead a few days later, Kenny is the natural suspect. But Jessica isn′t so sure he′s on the naughty list . . .

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Penguin

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0593640721

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9780593640722

Across Legal Lines

Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco

By: Jessica M. Marglin

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Across Legal Lines

Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco

By: Jessica M. Marglin

A previously untold story of Jewish-Muslim relations in modern Morocco, showing how law facilitated Jews’ integration into the broader Moroccan society in which they lived Morocco went through immense upheaval in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through the experiences of a single Jewish family, Jessica Marglin charts how the law helped Jews to integrate into Muslim society—until colonial reforms abruptly curtailed their legal mobility. Drawing on a broad range of archival documents, Marglin expands our understanding of contemporary relations between Jews and Muslims and changes the way we think about Jewish history, the Middle East, and the nature of legal pluralism.

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333

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Yale University Press

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0300225083

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9780300225082

Jewish Reading and Berks County

By: Laurie Grobman,Jessica Didow

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Jewish Reading and Berks County

By: Laurie Grobman,Jessica Didow

Reading and Berks County's first documented Jewish settlers, Lyon Nathan, Meyer Josephson, and Israel Jacobs, arrived in the 1750s. Another wave of Jewish immigrants, mostly from Eastern Europe and Russia, came in the late 1800s to escape the Russian army draft or persecution. Many of these early settlers' families still remain, and their established synagogues and organizations are a vital part of the community. Reform Congregation Oheb Sholom, the oldest surviving synagogue, was founded in 1864. On October 18, 1945, the Jewish Community Center of Reading was completed and dedicated. The Jewish community is committed to improving the lives of everyone in the area by sharing their time, talents, expertise, and financial resources with the larger region.

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Arcadia Publishing

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073857600X

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9780738576008

Making Judaism Safe for America

World War I and the Origins of Religious Pluralism

By: Jessica Cooperman

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World War I and the Origins of Religious Pluralism

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Making Judaism Safe for America

Making Judaism Safe for America

The Ultimate Terrorists

The Ultimate Terrorists

Murder, She Wrote: Murder in Season

Murder, She Wrote: Murder in Season

The Hebrew Orient

The Hebrew Orient

Biliary Tract Surgery, An Issue of Surgical Clinics

Biliary Tract Surgery, An Issue of Surgical Clinics

Murder, She Wrote: A Killer Christmas

Murder, She Wrote: A Killer Christmas

Across Legal Lines

Across Legal Lines

Jewish Reading and Berks County

Jewish Reading and Berks County

Making Judaism Safe for America

Making Judaism Safe for America

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