American Jewish Studies: A Periodic Report of the Status of the Field Marc Lee Raphael Recent Dissertations in American Jewish Studies (Continued from American Jewish History, Vol. 85, No. 2) Related Articles: Continued 1996 31. Kadden, Daniel. American Jewish advocacy: the dynamics of organizational structure and resources. Brown U 32. Stier, Oren B. The propriety of Holocaust memory: cultural representations and commemorative responses. U of California, Santa Barbara 1997 1. Barany, Deborah K. Is it wrong to go to school on Yom Kippur? Jewish children’s understanding of Jewish experience. Stanford U 2. Benjamin, Alan F. Ethnic identities and classifying practices among Jews of Curacao. U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 3. Bialystok, Franklin. Delayed impact: the Holocaust and the Canadian Jewish community, 1945–1985. York U (Canada) 4. Blecher, Mari S. Sacred and secular texts: interpretive communities and the teaching of literature. Stanford U 5. Block, Dobra S. Virtue out of necessity: a study of Jewish philanthropy in the United States, 1890–1918. U of Penn 6. Chmiel, Mark J. If the world remains silent: a political reading of Elie Wiesel as a public intellectual in the United States. Graduate Theological Union 7. Creighton, Jane M. The bordering nation: problems of American identity in selected novels . . . [Henry Roth, Anzia Yezierska]. Rice [End Page 107] 8. Davis-Kram, Harriet. No more a stranger and alone. Trade union, socialist and feminist activism: a route to becoming American (Rose Schneiderman, Pauline Newman). CUNY 9. Domina, Lynn M. Ain’t I an American: women’s autobiographical narratives and the construction of national identity [Rachel Calof, Mary Antin, etc.]. SUNY at Stony Brook 10. Eidelman, Jay M. “In the wilds of America”: the early republican origins of American Judaism, 1790–1830. Yale U 11. Fine, Joyce L. Negotiating the move: how American Jews decide to make aliya, a narrative analysis. Adelphi U 12. Foulkes, Julia L. Dancing America: modern dance and cultural nationalism, 1925–1950 [Jewish women]. U of Mass 13. Goffman, Ethan E. Imag(in)ing each other: black and Jewish literary representations. Indiana U 14. Greenberg, Mark I. Creating ethnic, class and southern identity in nineteenth century America: the Jews of Savannah, Georgia, 1830–1880. U of Florida 15. Holcomb, J. David. The nexus of freedom of religion and separation of church and state in the thought of Leo Pfeffer. Baylor U 16. Horn, Tamara. To grandmother’s house we go: modern grandmother archetypes in works by . . . [Tillie] Olsen. U of Alabama 17. Kolker, Carol A. Migrants and memories: family, work, and community among blacks, eastern European Jews, and native-born whites in an early twentieth century neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The George Washington U 18. Linden, Diana L. The New Deal murals of Ben Shahn: the intersection of Jewish identity, social reform, and government patronage. CUNY 19. Lowry, Paul T. The Truman administration policy in Palestine, November 1947-December 1952. U of Minn 20. Pappas, Andrea. Mark Rothko and the politics of Jewish identity, 1939–1945. U of Southern California [End Page 108] 21. Pritchett, Wendell E. From one ghetto to another: blacks, Jews and public housing in Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1945–1970. U of Penn 22. Samuels, Laura G. Affirming community identity: educational change as a rite of passage. U of Cincinnati 23. Schultz, Bella E. Strategies for religio-ethnic survival: a history of Jewish education in Kansas City, 1870–1996. U of Missouri-Kansas City 24. Segal, Josylyn C. Shades of community and conflict: biracial adults of African-American and Jewish-American heritages. The Wright Institute 25. Sentilles, Renee M. Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken’s American odyssey. The College of William and Mary 26. Solomon, Susan G. Secular and spiritual humanism: Louis I. Kahn’s work for the Jewish community in the 1950s and 1960s. U of Penn 27. Smith, Robin L. Professional and faith development in women religious leaders. The Claremont Graduate U 28. Storey, Ann E. The identical synthronos trinity: representation, ritual and power in the Spanish Americas. U of Washington 29. Tallen, Louise E. A return and a beginning: baalot teshuvah within Lubavitch Chasidism. U of California, Los Angeles Copyright © 1998 American Jewish Historical Society