American Jewish Studies: A Periodic Report of the Status of the Field

Recent Dissertations in American Jewish Studies
(Continued from American Jewish History, Vol. 86, No. 4)

1999

1     Alexander, Michael. Jazz-age Jews: Arnold Rothstein, Felix Frankfurter, Al Jolson and the Jewish imagination, Yale U

2     Culver, Leigh. Performing identities in the art of John Singer Sargent [Jewish patrons], U of Pennsylvania

3     Drewinko, Andrea Patricia. Culturally situated education: parental perspectives on the Jewish day school, Indiana U

4     Garrett, Leah Vladeck. Modernity in motion: images of travel in modern Yiddish literature, JTS

5     Gill, Jonathan Peter. The law of the modernist letter: antisemitism and the technology of representation in the poetry of Ezra Pound, Columbia U

6     Gelardin, Sally. Life transitions and lifework success: the influence of mother-daughter relationships among women of Eastern European Jewish descent, USF

7     Hagedorn, Leah Elizabeth. Jews and the American South, 1858-1905, UNC at Chapel Hill

8     Harris-Ewing, Sharon M. Religion, religious diversity and public education: preservice teachers' attitudes, knowledge and preparation, SUNY at Buffalo

9     Hilsenrath, Baruch Mordechai. Factors in parental choice: Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jewish day schools, Yeshiva U

10     Hodin, Louise Klein. The impact of Jewish education on the moral reasoning of Jewish high school students: an exploratory study, American U

11     Hubbard, David Aaron. Religion in the public schools: crossng the line and the effects on [five Jewish] children, The Fielding Institute

12     Kandiyoti, Dalia. The local and the mobile: spaces of belonging and displacement in American narratives [Abraham Cahan], NYU

13     Kelly, Michael Patrick. Jacob K. Javits: the education of an urban liberal, 1904- 1957, SUNY at Stony Brook

14     Kiron, Arthur. Golden ages, promised lands: the Victorian rabbinic humanism of Sabato Morais, Columbia U

15     Knutson, Lin. "A politics of location": women, race, and space in the United States, 1970-1995 [Adrienne Rich], U of Iowa

16     Lance, Rita. Attitudes toward women as Jewish day school administrators, Yeshiva U

17     Levy, Cynthia Betty. You can't imagine this life: diaries and letters of a southern-Jewish grande dame, Josephine Joel Heyman, 1901-1993, LSU

18     Liu, Jui-Chli (Rachel). Carnival culture and the engendering of Florine Stettheimer, Bryn Mawr C

19     Lugowski, David Michael. Queering the (New) Deal: lesbian, gay and queer representation in United States cinema of the Great Depression, 1929-1941, NYU

20     Naftaly, Phillip R. Jewish chicken farmers in the egg basket of the world: the creation of cultural identity in Petaluma, California, 1904-1954, New School

21     Plotkin, Wendy. Deeds of mistrust: race, housing, and restrictive covenants in Chicago, 1900-1953, U of Illinois at Chicago

22     Ralph, Stacy Marie Patricia. Private schools: do they discriminate in student admissions?, Pepperdine U