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Markus Krah
American Jewry
and the Re-Invention
of the East European
Jewish Past
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Contents
Illustrations VIII
Acknowledgments XI
Introduction 1
Obsessively Engaged: Postwar American Jewry and the East
European Past 3
A Community Coming of Age – by Trying on a Usable Past 5
Jews in Postwar America: a Not-So-Golden Era? 7
State of the Field 10
From Yiddish to English: a Multiplicity of Sources 12
Methodology and Discipline: Discourse Analysis and Cultural
History 14
Chapter Overview 16
Larger Patterns: Memory in American and Jewish Contexts 18
Bibliography 261
Index 285
Illustrations
This book has been inspired, guided, and shaped by many scholars, mentors,
and colleagues who have advised and helped me in different ways. It is a great
pleasure to express, however insufficiently, my gratitude and acknowledge their
contributions. All the help and advice I received notwithstanding, I bear the sole
responsibility for whatever faults and idiosyncrasies remained in this work.
The book is a revised version of the doctoral dissertation I wrote at the Grad
uate School of the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) in New York. It bears the
imprint of my advisor, Jack Wertheimer. His knowledge, sensitivity, curiosity,
and passion for the subject matter are on every page, as are his respect for my
approach to it and his patient support for my particular perspective. I could not
have asked for a better advisor.
I thank the other members of my committee who in different roles guided the
dissertation and helped me turn it into a book. David Fishman (JTS) introduced
me to East European Jewish history and kindled my fascination, which led me to
integrate it into my passion for the American Jewish experience. Ismar Schorsch,
former Chancellor of JTS, has been model of a mentor and scholar in his commit
ment to the discipline of history and its value, and a mentsh. This book would not
be what it has become without his advice. Alan Mittleman bears large responsi
bility for my coming to JTS, so it is fitting that he saw me out with a dissertation
that, while not in his field of Jewish Thought, reflects many ideas and perspec
tives he shared with me over the years.
Hasia Diner, of New York University, took an interest in my project early on
and supported me in many ways. Though I have never been an academic orphan,
I am grateful that she adopted me and invested so much time and energy into
advising me. David Roskies (JTS) has inspired me by his passionate engagement
with the scholarly subject of East European Jewish culture ever since I met him
before coming to JTS.
I received advice on my research from many outstanding scholars at my alma
mater, JTS: Aryeh Davidson, Arnold Eisen, Benjamin Gampel, Stephen Garfinkel,
Shira Kohn, Alan Mintz z”l, Bruce Nielsen, and Shuly Rubin Schwartz. Other
scholars from various institutions shared their insights with me in individual
meetings, at conferences and workshops, and in other ways. I thank each of
them and ask for understanding that I merely list them in alphabetical order and
without their academic affiliations: Jonathan Brent, Gennady Estraikh, Jeffrey
Gurock, Samuel Heilman, Edward Kaplan, Eli Lederhendler, Julian Levinson,
Michael Meyer, Thomas Meyer, Tony Michels, Deborah Dash Moore, Jonathan
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XII Acknowledgments
Sarna, Mel Scult, Eugene Sheppard, Nancy Sinkoff, Daniel Soyer, Beth Wenger,
Stephen Whitfield, and Steven Zipperstein.
Several fellow doctoral students commented on my work at various conferen
ces, workshops, or in other ways, greatly expanding my horizon and providing
peer encouragement. Among them are Allan Amanik, Rachel Deblinger, Josh
Furman, Rachel Rothstein, Jason Schulman, and Brian Smollett. Two fellow JTS
students in particular accompanied me in many ways through graduate school
and beyond: Zach Mann provided intellectual companionship, advice, and
friendship from start to end. Sonia Isard, close companion and friend from day
one at JTS, read and edited every sentence of the dissertation, out of which this
book grew.
My understanding of the New York intellectual scene in the 1940s to ‘60s was
greatly improved by conversations with Neal Kozodoy and Norman Podhoretz,
both former editors of Commentary. On the other end of the ideological spectrum,
David Twersky z”l, then Washington correspondent of the Jewish Daily Forward
was the first to introduce me to the fascinating world of American Jewry.
Researching this study was made smooth and pleasurable by a number of
professionals in libraries and archives who generously gave of their time and
expertise in support of my project. Among them are Sarah Diamant, Hector
Guzman, and Jerry Schwarzbard at JTS; Fruma Mohrer and Leo Greenbaum at
the YIVO Archives; Zachary Loeb of the American Jewish Historical Society; Dana
Herman, Kevin Proffitt, and Gary P. Zola of the American Jewish Archives in Cin
cinnati. I am grateful to several archives and their (photo) archivist for providing
the images that illustrate this book: Sharon Liberman Mintz of the Library of The
Jewish Theological Seminary; Chloe MorseHarding of the Robert D. Farber Uni
versity Archives & Special Collections at Brandeis University; Joe Weber of the
American Jewish Archives; and Vital Zajka of the Archives and Library of YIVO.
Special thanks to Congregation Beth Sholom in Elkins Park, PA, for a historical
image of their synagogue. I am particularly thankful to the United States Holo
caust Memorial Museum for allowing me to use a photo from its collection for the
book cover and several other ones to illustrate the text.
My graduate work and this dissertation were funded by several institu
tions, which generously awarded me fellowships and grants, or invited me to
workshops and conferences. JTS awarded me a Revson Fellowship and other
forms of funding throughout my graduate work. YIVO named me their Rose and
Isidore Drench and Dora and Mayer Tandler Fellow in American Jewish History. I
received an International Dissertation Fellowship from the Memorial Foundation
for Jewish Culture. The Herbert R. Bloch Jr. Memorial Fellowship allowed me to do
research in the American Jewish Archives. Additional support came from Targum
Shlishi and the American Academy for Jewish Research. I also benefited from the
Acknowledgments XIII
invitation by Martin Treml to spend time as a fellow at the Center for Literary and
Cultural Research in Berlin.
The Potsdam School of Jewish Theology, where I have been teaching since its
founding in 2013, generously supported the publication of this book by defray
ing costs for the use of images; I am very grateful for this and the other ways
in which it has supported my scholarship. I also thank the Potsdam Graduate
School (PoGS) for its support.
I thank my colleagues at the School of Jewish Theology at Potsdam University
for having my back in the final stages of the writing process. And I am grateful for
the continuing mentorship and friendship of Berndt Ostendorf, my M.A. advisor
and emeritus in American Studies at LudwigMaximiliansUniversity Munich
where I first pursued my interest in American Jewish history. I thank Cornelia
Wilhelm for accepting my book into her series at de Gruyter, and to Julia Brauch,
my editor there, and the entire team for smoothly turning my original text into
this book. My indefatigable copy editor, Anne Popiel, improved the text of this
book in innumerable ways.
Closer to home, more people kept me company during various important
stages of my life prior to, during, and since my time in New York. My parents,
Gisela and Willi Krah, stayed remarkably calm, when they learned that their son
would give up a permanent job as a journalist to go to graduate school to get a
Ph.D. in Modern Jewish Studies, and they supported me throughout in every way
they could. Only Ulrike Fleischer herself knows how much she contributed to this
project and the present book resulting from it. I am indebted to her beyond words.
My former boss in journalism, Andreas Krieger, learned more about American
Jewry over countless dinners than he ever would and kept me sane and straight
in many ways.
Mirjam Thulin has come to play an ever greater role in this book project and,
more importantly, my life beyond it. I dedicate this book to her.
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