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Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America
A Biography
M. M. Silver
Cloth $49.95
| 978-0-8156-1000-7
| 2013
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"Louis Marshall, who by any standards has to rank as one of the most important figures in the Jewish community in the first part of the 20th century, has for too long been without a good biography. Silver has now remedied that deficiency, and with much evidence based on solid and extensive research, finally gives Marshall the historical recognition he has long deserved."—Mel Urofsky, author of Louis D. Brandeis: A Life
"The first scholarly treatment of Marshall on a grand scale. Based on exhaustive research, this richly textured and insightful study is lively, engaging, and generative. It is a significant contribution to American Jewish history and promises to be the cornerstone of scholarship on Marshall for years to come."—Mark A. Raider, author of Nahum Goldmann: Statesman Without a State
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M. M. Silver is a modern Jewish history scholar at Max Stern College of Emek
Yezreel in Israel. He is the author of several books and articles, including Our
Exodus: Leon Uris and the Americanization of Israel’s Founding Story.
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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
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.
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7 x 10, 616 pages, 15 black-and-white illustrations,
notes, bibliography, index
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