Review: The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World: Jewish Heritage in Europe and the United States, by Daniel J. Walkowitz

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Book Review| February 01 2022 Review: The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World: Jewish Heritage in Europe and the United States, by Daniel J. Walkowitz The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World: Jewish Heritage in Europe and the United States by Daniel J. Walkowitz. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020. 304 pp.; 26 b&w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index; clothbound, $120.00; paperback, $34.95; eBook, $34.95. Olwen Purdue Olwen Purdue Queen’s University Belfast Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2022) 44 (1): 112–113. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2022.44.1.112 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Olwen Purdue; Review: The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World: Jewish Heritage in Europe and the United States, by Daniel J. Walkowitz. The Public Historian 1 February 2022; 44 (1): 112–113. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2022.44.1.112 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search Danial Walkowitz is no stranger to scholars of public history, urban history, and the history of labor. Professor Emeritus of US social and cultural history at New York University, where he co-founded the public history program back in the 1980s, and author of numerous important works on memory, class, and identity, Walkowitz has done much to shape the development of public history, particularly that of the urban working classes. This volume, while drawing on themes he has developed elsewhere, sees Walkowitz turn a new, more personal, lens on public history as he traces the development of Jewish heritage through the movement of his own family from Eastern Europe to the United States during the early decades of the twentieth century. In his quest to trace his family’s journeys, Walkowitz explores their history through the present: visiting villages, towns, and cities with which they were associated, searching out traces of the... You do not currently have access to this content.