The Congressional Minyan

Author : Kurt F. Stone
Publisher : Ktav Publishing House
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Jewish legislators
ISBN : UOM:39015049535522

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The Congressional Minyan by Kurt F. Stone Pdf

"The members of this "Congressional Minyan" have little in common save their ancestry. They have hailed from the West Indies, Germany, Russia-Poland and Palestine, from New York, Kansas, Alabama and Iowa. Among them are: Harvard-trained doctors and Oxford Dons; farmers and shopkeepers; and children of poverty and scions of unimaginable wealth.".

Author : Kurt F. Stone
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780810877382

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The Jews of Capitol Hill by Kurt F. Stone Pdf

This volume includes entries on every Jewish member of Congress. Each entry identifies the member's political party and the years of service, provides a biographical sketch, often numbering several pages, and includes references for further study. This is the most comprehensive and extensive resource on the legacy of Jewish representation and influence in the United States Congress.

Author : Michael Dorf,George Van Dusen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252051289

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Clear It with Sid! by Michael Dorf,George Van Dusen Pdf

The son of a Lithuanian blacksmith, Sidney R. Yates rose to the pinnacle of Washington power and influence. As chair of a House Appropriations Subcommittee, Yates was a preeminent national figure involved in issues that ranged from the environment and Native American rights to Israel and support for the arts. Speaker Tip O'Neill relied on the savvy Chicagoan in the trenches and advised anyone with controversial legislation to first "clear it with Sid!" Michael C. Dorf and George Van Dusen draw on scores of interviews and unprecedented access to private papers to illuminate the life of an Illinois political icon. Wise, energetic, charismatic, petty, stubborn--Sid Yates presented a complicated character to constituents and colleagues alike. Yet his get-it-done approach to legislation allowed him to bridge partisan divides in the often-polarized House of Representatives. Following Yates from the campaign trail to the negotiating table to the House floor, Dorf and Van Dusen offer a rich portrait of a dealmaker extraordinaire and tireless patriot on a fifty-year journey through postwar American politics.

Author : Rafael Medoff
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781576072936

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Jewish Americans and Political Participation by Rafael Medoff Pdf

This handbook addresses how the Jewish American community emerged from obscurity to play a role in behind-the-scenes power politics and finally appeared center stage. Jewish Americans and Political Participation explores the rise of the Jewish people from hardscrabble immigrants to the highest echelons of political power. The book provides an overview of American Jewish life, including the impact of immigration, domestic antisemitism, the Holocaust, and U.S–Israel relations. A chapter is devoted to protest politics, covering such events as President Grant's Order #11 (expulsion edict), tenants and shirtwaist-makers strikes, the 1943 rabbis march on Washington, and Jewish responses to the Rosenberg case. The book also covers participation in social movements such as abolition, Jewish defense organizations, and the New Left. A chapter is devoted to Jewish participation in electoral politics, from Jewish interest in early socialism to Jewish advisers and the emergence of Jewish conservatism. There are also biographies of Jewish American officials and political officeholders.

Author : Josh Lambert
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479876433

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Unclean Lips by Josh Lambert Pdf

Winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award presented by the Association for Jewish Studies Jews have played an integral role in the history of obscenity in America. For most of the 20th century, Jewish entrepreneurs and editors led the charge against obscenity laws. Jewish lawyers battled literary censorship even when their non-Jewish counterparts refused to do so, and they won court decisions in favor of texts including Ulysses, A Howl, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and Tropic of Cancer. Jewish literary critics have provided some of the most influential courtroom testimony on behalf of freedom of expression. The anti-Semitic stereotype of the lascivious Jew has made many historians hesitant to draw a direct link between Jewishness and obscenity. In Unclean Lips, Josh Lambert addresses the Jewishness of participants in obscenity controversies in the U.S. directly, exploring the transformative roles played by a host of neglected figures in the development of modern and postmodern American culture. The diversity of American Jewry means that there is no single explanation for Jews' interventions in this field. Rejecting generalizations, this book offers case studies that pair cultural histories with close readings of both contested texts and trial transcripts to reveal the ways in which specific engagements with obscenity mattered to particular American Jews at discrete historical moments. Reading American culture from Theodore Dreiser and Henry Miller to Curb Your Enthusiasm and FCC v. Fox, Unclean Lips analyzes the variable historical and cultural factors that account for the central role Jews have played in the struggles over obscenity and censorship in the modern United States.

Author : Charles Cutter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313053337

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Judaica Reference Sources by Charles Cutter Pdf

A recipient of the Outstanding Reference Award from the Association of Jewish Librarians in its earlier edition, this updated edition of Judaica Reference Sources maintains its editorial excellence while revising and expanding coverage for the new century. Virtually every aspect of Jewish life, knowledge, history, culture, religion, and contemporary issues is covered in this annotated, bibliographic guide. A critical collection development tool for college, university, public school, and synagogue libraries, Judaica Reference Sources provides entries for over 1,000 reference works, as well as a selective list of related Web sites, in English, French, German, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Works published since 1970 are emphasized. Unique in providing expert guidance to Judaica material for the librarian, the layperson, the student, and the researcher, this reference guide is a versatile tool that will fulfill your every need for Judaica material.

Author : Scott Crass
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781503587625

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Statesmen and Mischief Makers: by Scott Crass Pdf

Historically, when sweeping policy changes or legislation of indelible consequence are signed into law, Presidents receive the credit. There is a good reason for that. Without the Chief Executive putting his pen to paper, these advancements would have nary a chance of becoming reality. In most cases, though, a President’s signature is simply the culmination of a long fight to make an idea or actual proposal a reality. In fact, quite often it is members of Congress who nurture proposals from inception to the President’s desk. Like a train leaving its first station, the legislative process often starts with a handful of people on board until slowly, a few more passengers hop on at each stop and before long, there is a full car with people standing in the aisles. Often times, a bill becoming a law is no different.

Author : Louis Sandy Maisel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0742501817

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Jews in American Politics by Louis Sandy Maisel Pdf

Brings together a complete picture of the past, present, and future of Jewish political participation.

Author : Sandy L. Maisel,Ira N. Forman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781461704621

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Jews in American Politics by Sandy L. Maisel,Ira N. Forman Pdf

Joseph Lieberman's Vice Presidential nomination and Presidential candidacy are neither the first nor last words on signal Jewish achievements in American politics. Jews have played an important role in American government since the early 1800s at least, and in view of the 2004 election, there is no political office outside the reach of Jewish American citizens. For the first time, Jews in American Politics: Essays brings together a complete picture of the past, present, and future of Jewish political participation. Perfect for students and scholars alike, this monumental work includes thoughtful and original chapters by leading journalists, scholars, and practitioners. Topics range from Jewish leadership and identity; to Jews in Congress, on the Supreme Court, and in presidential administrations; and on to Jewish influence in the media, the lobbies, and in other arenas in which American government operates powerfully, if informally. In addition to the thematically unified essays, Jews in American Politics: Essays concludes with an invaluable roster of Jews in key governmental positions from Ambassadorships and Cabinet posts to federal judges, state governors, and mayors of major cities. Both analytical and anecdotal, the essays in Jews in American Politics offer deep insight into serious questions about the dilemmas that Jews in public service face, as well as humorous sidelights and authoritative reference materials never before collected in one source. The story of the rich tradition of Jewish participation in American political life provides an indispensable resource for any serious follower of American politics, especially in election year 2004.

Author : Emily Machen
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815654520

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Women of Faith and Religious Identity in Fin-de-Siècle France by Emily Machen Pdf

In this unique study, Machen explores a moment of intense religious upheaval and transformation in France between 1880 and 1920. In these pre–World War I years, a powerful Catholic community was pitted against equally powerful anticlerical members of the French Third Republic. During this time, women became increasingly involved in faith-based organizations, engaging in social and political action both to expand women’s rights and to ensure that religion remained part of the public debate about France’s identity. By representing their faith communities as modern, progressive, and in some cases democratic, women positioned themselves to help guide a modernizing France. Women of Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish faiths also reshaped the narrative of female power within the French nation and within their own religious groups. Their activism provided them with social, religious, and political influence unattainable through any other French institutions, enabling them in turn to push France toward becoming a more democratic, equitable society. Machen’s timely examination of the critical role women played in shaping the nation’s religious identity helps to illuminate contemporary issues in France as Muslim communities respond to civic pressure to secularize and as the country debates the role of women in Islam.

Author : Kenneth D. Wald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108497893

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The Foundations of American Jewish Liberalism by Kenneth D. Wald Pdf

Shows how American Jews developed a liberal political culture that has influenced their political priorities from the founding to today.

Author : Jeanne E. Abrams
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814707197

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Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail by Jeanne E. Abrams Pdf

Western Jewish women's level of involvement at the vanguard of social welfare and progressive reform, commerce, politics, and higher education and the professions is striking given their relatively small numbers."--Jacket.

Author : David Koistinen
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813059754

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Confronting Decline by David Koistinen Pdf

"Koistinen puts the ‘political’ back in political economy in this fascinating account of New England’s twentieth-century industrial erosion. First-rate research and sound judgments make this study essential reading."--Philip Scranton, Rutgers University--Camden "Well-organized and clearly written, Confronting Decline looks at one community to understand a process that has become truly national."--David Stebenne, Ohio State University "Koistinen’s important book makes clear that many industrial cities and regions began to decline as early as the 1920s."--Alan Brinkley, Columbia University "Sheds new light on a complex system of enterprise that sometimes blurs, and occasionally overrides, the distinctions of private and public, as well as those of locality, state, region, and nation. In so doing, it extends and deepens the insights of previous scholars of the American political economy."--Robert M. Collins, University of Missouri The rise of the United States to a position of global leadership and power rested initially on the outcome of the Industrial Revolution. Yet as early as the 1920s, important American industries were in decline in the places where they had originally flourished. The decline of traditional manufacturing--deindustrialization--has been one of the most significant aspects of the restructuring of the American economy. In this volume, David Koistinen examines the demise of the textile industry in New England from the 1920s through the 1980s to better understand the impact of industrial decline. Focusing on policy responses to deindustrialization at the state, regional, and federal levels, he offers an in-depth look at the process of industrial decline over time and shows how this pattern repeats itself throughout the country and the world.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1218 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116494089

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PURD:32754071036556

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Protecting Religious Freedom After Boerne V. Flores by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution Pdf