Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America: A Biography

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Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America Modern Jewish History Henry Feingold, Series Editor other titles in moder n jew ish history The “Bergson Boys” and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy Judith Tydor Baumel Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland Jack Jacobs Contemporary Sephardic Identity in the America: An Interdisciplinary Approach Margalit Bejarano and Edna Aizenberg, eds. Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin Deborah Hertz Judah L. Magnes: An American Jewish Nonconformist Daniel P. Kotzin New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950–1970 Eli Lederhendler “Silent No More”: Saving the Jews of Russia, the American Jewish Effort, 1967–1989 Henry L. Feingold An Uneasy Relationship: American Jewish Leadership and Israel, 1948–1957 Zvi Ganin We Are Many: Reflections on American Jewish History and Identity Edward S. Shapiro Will to Freedom: A Perilous Journey Through Fascism and Communism Egon Balas M. M. Silver Louis MARSHALL and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America A Biography Syracuse University Press Copyright © 2013 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5290 All Rights Reserved First Edition 2013 13 14 15 16 17 18 6 5 4 3 2 1 A portion of Chapter 6 is taken from “Louis Marshall and the Democratization of Jewish Identity,” American Jewish History Volume 94, Numbers 1–2, March–June 2008, reprinted here with permission. ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit our website at SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu. ISBN: 978-0-8156-1000-7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Available upon request from publisher. Manufactured in the United States of America For David Silver M. M. Silver teaches modern Jewish history at the Max Stern College of Emek Yezreel. A graduate of Cornell University, he earned his doctorate in Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His English and Hebrew publications include Our Exodus: Leon Uris and the Americanization of Israel’s Founding Story. He has worked as a visiting scholar in several US universities and lives in the Galilee. ...