Posts Tagged: Harold Brackman
Remembering Our Friend and Scholar, Harold Brackman
The below article is an adaptation of a eulogy delivered last week on behalf of historian and frequent Algemeiner contributor Harold Brackman. In the Jewish...
Remembering a Great Scholar and Defender of Jews: Harold Brackman
I was shocked to open my inbox on Sunday, and receive a message that Harold Brackman had passed away. Harold was a brilliant, prolific, and...
Early Jewish Novelist Abraham Cahan, and His Alter Ego — David Levinsky
The conventional reading of "The Rise of David Levinsky (1917)" -- encouraged even by author Abraham Cahan -- is that it’s an ironic “rags to...
The Story of America’s Non-Jewish, First ‘Jewish Novelist’
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but today’s unforgiving ideologies define it as a form of appropriation or theft -- especially if it...
America and the ‘GI Jews’
Prior to the 1960s, many Americans shared the belief that military conscription benefited young men and uplifted certain groups. World War II cemented this optimistic...
Remembering an Early Jewish Feminist and Abolitionist
Before the Civil War, upstate New York was called “the burned over district,” because it was ablaze with religious enthusiasm. School reform, prison reform, various...
A Tale of Two Jewish Prophets
A leader is abreast of his or her times. A prophet is in advance of theirs -- sometimes, by too much. And we now have...
Adolf Hitler and the ‘Real’ Nietzsche
“No Hitler, no Holocaust.” Is it also true: “No Nietzsche, no Hitler”? Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 -- the same year that German philosopher Friedrich...
Waldo Frank and Jewish Friendship With Minorities
Waldo Frank grew up on New York’s affluent Upper West Side before moving to pre-World War I Europe, and then returning to New York in...
Religion as Indispensable to the Social Order
Notable “New York Jewish intellectuals” such as Irving Kristol (father of Bill Kristol), Norman Podhoretz (father of John Podhoretz), Sidney Hook, Philip Rahv, and Daniel...
Remembering a Jewish Anthropologist — and a Spy
Franz Boas was the archetypal anthropologist as truth teller. Boas’ antithesis -- the anthropologist as a spy without a conscience -- was Mark Zborowski. His two...
Remembering a Jewish Hero and Advocate for Black Americans
As biographer Naomi Cohen showed, Jacob H. Schiff was the prime example during the era of mass immigration of a new “Americanized” style of Jewish...
Reform Jews and Early American Zionism
The story of Zionism and Reform Judaism in America began in the 1820s, when Charleston Jews left the traditional Congregation Beth Elohim to found their...
The Connection Between Pan-Africanism and Zionism
Israel’s enemies today often ignore that Zionism and Pan-Africanism have intersecting histories. But they share one great commonality -- both are international movements committed to...
