Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America:

Name: Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America:
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ISBN: 9780815610007

ISBN-10: 0815610009

ISBN-13: 9780815610007

Edition: 2012

Authors: Matthew Silver

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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…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 616
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.882
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction



From Upstate to Uptown



Syracuse



Manhattan and Moral Reform



A National Organization for the Jews



The Origins of Organized Activism



Abrogation



Avoiding the Guillotine of Immigration Restriction



War and Peace



World War I



Paris and Haiti



Marshall Law



Ford



Jews arid Birds



Ethnic Affairs in the 1920s



Crimea and Eretz Israel



Epilogue: Massena, Zurich, Emanu-El


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index