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

Recent Dissertations in American Jewish Studies
(Continued from American Jewish History, Vol. 87, No. 4)

1999

23    Brown, Stephen Alan. When middle-class ambition met south- ern honor: a cultural history of the Leo Frank case. U of Illinois, Chicago

24    Fisher, Rachel Eskin. A place in history: genealogy, Jewish identity, modernity. U of California at Santa Barbara

25    Margulis, Jennifer L. Swarthy pirates and white slaves: Barbary captivity in the American literary imagination [slavery, Jews and women] Emory U

26    Rosenberg, Faye Lisa. Jewish women praying for divorce: the plight of agunot in contemporary Judaism. York U (Canada)

27 Treat, Rita Kereszlesi. Strangers at home: ethnic modernism between the world wars [Anzia Yezierska, and Henry Roth]. University of California at Santa Cruz

2000

1    Berger, Leigh Paula. Messianic Judaism: searching the spirit. U of South Florida.

2    Chung, Younsook Na. Bellow's women: the limitations of a major American writer. U of Nevada at Reno

3    Cohen, Adam Brian. Religion and the morality of mentality [Jews and Judaism]. U of Pennsylvania

4    Connor, J. D. The language of men: identity and existentialism in the American postwar [Saul Bellow, Alfred Kazin, etc.]. Johns Hopkins U

5    Dromi, Dalia. Configurations of Christ in Jewish and Hebrew literature [Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud]. University of California at Los Angeles

6    Dueck, Gordon Bernhard. The salamander and the chameleon: religion, race, and evolutionism in the Anglo-Jewish press, Montreal, 1897-1914. Queen's U at Kingston (Canada)

7    Eldex, Rivkah Magnus. The effect of the Ba'al Teshuva phenom- enon on non-Orthodox Jewish families of origin. U of Hartford

8    Fader, Ayala. Gender, morality, and language: socialization practices in a Hasidic community. NYU

9    Franco, Dean Joseph. Reading the multicultural moment: a theory of American literature [Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth and Tony Kushner]. U of Southern California

10    Fridman, Maina. Alienation and immigration experiences: So- viet Jews in the United States. Yeshiva U

11    Furnish, Benjamin Alan. If you stop remembering, you forget: nostalgia in Jewish-American theatre and film, 1979-1999. U of Kansas

12    Goldschmidt, Henry Joseph. Peoples apart: race, religion, and other Jewish differences in Crown Heights. U of California at Santa Cruz

13    Goldstein, Eric Louis. Race and the construction of Jewish identity in America, 1875-1945. U of Michigan

14    Goldstein, Samantha Hope. "Don't mind me, I'll just sit here in the dark": illuminating the role of women in Catskills performative culture (New York). U of California at San Diego

15    Grant, Lisa Dale. Paradoxical pilgrimage: American Jewish adults on a congregational Israel trip. JTS

16    Greenebaum, Jessia B. "Conversions" of conviction: a study of the process of becoming a Reform Jew. Syracuse U

17    Haefeli, Evan. The creation of American religion pluralism: churches, colonialism, and conquest in the mid-Atlantic, 1628- 1688 [New Amsterdam]. Princeton U

18    Katz, Frank Henry. Screaming laughing: the functions and varieties of humor in American holocaust literature (S Bellow, C Ozick, L Epstein, etc.). Arizona State U

19    Kellman, Ellen Deborah. The newspaper novel in the "Jewish Daily Forward" (1900-1940): fiction as entertainment and serious literature. Columbia U

20    Kenny, John. Mobilizing diasporas in national conflicts. U of Chicago

21    King, Karen Ann Russell. Surviving modernity: Jewishness, fieldwork, and the roots of American anthropology in the twentieth century. U of Texas at Austin

22    Korelitz, Seth. Divided kingdom: American Jewish ethnicity and religion in the nineteenth century. Brandeis U

23    Langdon-Teclaw, Jennifer Elizabeth. Caught in the crossfire: anti-fascism, anti-communism, and the politics of Americanism in the Hollywood career of Adrian Scott [Crossfire and American Jews]. SUNY at Binghamton

24    Levine, Stephanie Wellen. Mystics, mavericks, and merrymakers: the inner worlds and daily lives of Hasidic adolescent girls. Harvard U

25    Light, Caroline Elizabeth. Uplifting "the unfortunate of our race": southern Jewish benevolence and the struggle towards whiteness. U of Kentucky

26    McCune, Mary...