Louis Marshall and the rise of Jewish ethnicity in America : a biography / M. M. Silver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silver, M. M. (Matthew Mark), 1961- author.

Series:

Modern Jewish history.

Modern Jewish History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States--Biography.

Jews.

Jews--United States--Identity.

Marshall, Louis, 1856-1929.

Marshall, Louis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (666 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A milestone in modern Jewish history and American ethnic history, the sweeping influence of Louis Marshall's career through the 1920s is unprecedented. A tireless advocate for and leader of an array of notable American Jewish organizations and institutions, Marshall also spearheaded civil rights campaigns for other ethnic groups, blazing the trail for the NAACP, Native American groups, and environmental protection causes in the early twentieth century. No comprehensive biography has been published that does justice to Marshall's richly diverse life as an impassioned defender of Jewish communal interests and as a prominent attorney who reportedly argued more cases before the Supreme Court than any other attorney of his era. Silver eloquently fills that gap, tracing Marshall's career in detail to reveal how Jewish subgroups of Eastern European immigrants and established Central European elites interacted in New York City and elsewhere to fuse distinctive communal perspectives on specific Jewish issues and broad American affairs. Through the chronicle of Marshall's life, Silver sheds light on immigration policies, Jewish organizational and social history, environmental activism, and minority politics during World War I, and he bears witness to the rise of American Jewish ethnicity in pre-Holocaust America.

Contents:

Part One : From upstate to uptown

Syracuse

Manhattan and moral reform

Part Two : A national organization for the Jews

The origins of organized activism

Abrogation

Avoiding the guillotine of immigration restriction

Part Three : War and peace

World War I

Paris and Haiti

Part Four : Marshall law

Ford

Jews and birds

Ethnic affairs in the 1920s

Crimea and Eretz Israel

Epilogue : Massena, Zurich, Emanu-el.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780815651987

0815651988

OCLC:

845032751