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

Recent Dissertations in American Jewish Studies

(Continued from American Jewish History, Vol. 84, No. 2)

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1995

30. Bridwell, Richard A. Spiritual awakening in Saul Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift. U of Dallas

31. Feher, Shoshanah. Passing over Easter: constructing the boundaries of Messianic Judaism. U of California, Santa Barbara

32. Kleinman, Craig I. Jews in space: on an American road to know where [Abigail Franks and Mordecai Manuel Noah]. U of Rhode Island

33. Lehavi, Dorene. A survey of evolving attitudes regarding charitable giving to federated organizations in a Jewish community. U of Southern California

34. Mahoney, Margaret E. Flannery O’Connor and Saul Bellow: two American moralists. U of Delaware

35. Moran, Joseph P. The American author as celebrity: J. D. Salinger, Norman Mailer, John Updike, and Philip Roth. U of Sussex (U.K.)

36. Rothberg, Michael P. Documenting barbarism: memory, culture, and modernity after the ÒFinal Solution.Ó CUNY

37. Young, Harmon G. III. The sacred choral music of Dave Brubeck: a historical, analytical and critical examination. U of Florida

1996

1. Caplan, Kimmy. ÒIs this not an upside down world?Ó: the lives, sermons, and continuity and change in the sermons of American Orthodox rabbis who immigrated from Eastern Europe to America during the mass immigration period (1881Đ1924). Hebrew U

2. Charytan, Margaret. The impact of religious day school education on Modern Orthodox Judaism: a study of changes in seven Modern Orthodox day schools and the impact on religious transmission to students and their families. CUNY

3. Eulenberg, Julia N. Jewish enterprise in the American West: Washington, 1853Đ1909. U of Washington

4. Hoffman, Betty N. Jewish hearts: a study of dynamic ethnicity in the United States and the Soviet Union. U of Connecticut

5. Igra, Anna R. Other men’s wives and children: anti-desertion reform in New York, 1900Đ1935. Rutgers U

6. Lachler, Rebecca L. Distant cousins: the relationship between Jews from the former Soviet Union and American Jewish voluntary associations in Los Angeles. U of Southern California

7. Levin, Shana L. A social psychological approach to understanding intergroup attitudes in the United States and Israel. U of California, Los Angeles

Lichtenberg, Naomi A. Hadassah’s founders and Palestine, 1912Đ1925: a quest for meaning and the creation of women’s Zionism. Indiana U

9. Loschen, Christopher T. ÒA competent keyless citizenÓ: complex agency in James Joyce’s Ulysses, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, and Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock. Brandeis U

10. Raider, Mark A. From the margins to the mainstream: Labor Zionism and American Jews, 1919Đ1945. Brandeis U

11. Rosenberg, Michael W. Ethnicity, community and the state: the organization, structures, practices and strategies of the Montreal Jewish community’s day school system and its relations with the Quebec state. Carleton U (Canada)

12. Todd, Jesse T. Imagining the future of American religion at the New York World’s Fair, 1939Đ1940 [Temple of Religion]. Columbia U