Browsing Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies: Doctoral Dissertations by Author "Gurock, Jeffrey S."
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First And Foremost, An American Congressman: The Holocaust-Era Activities of Rep. Sol Bloom
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 2022-05)As chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives, Sol Bloom (1870-1949) was arguably the most powerful Jew in Congress during the Holocaust. To the extent that historians discuss him at all, ... -
When an American Jew produced: Judah David Eisenstein and the first Hebrew Encyclopedia
(2020-08)Between 1907 and 1913, Judah David Eisenstein (1854–1956), an amateur scholar and entrepreneurial immigrant to New York City, produced the first modern Hebrew encyclopedia, Ozar Yisrael. The Ozar was in part a traditionalist ...
