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Essays illustrating the American Jewish experience during World War I.
An Equal Share of Freedom sheds new light on several important and interrelated dimensions of American, Jewish, and world history in the World War I era. Paying close attention to the Balfour Declaration as a hub around which to explore the period's unfolding and turbulent social, cultural, and political developments, this collection of essays covers a diverse range of topics including Jewish doughboys, Zionist women authors, and political elites such as Golda Meir and Woodrow Wilson. The volume demonstrates the complex nature of Jewish ethnonational consciousness in the American setting and the impact of Zionism on US wartime and postwar activity.
The essays in this volume overturn timeworn assumptions that have long shaped the fields of American history and modern Jewish history. Taken as a whole, they demonstrate the war's profound impact on American Jewish life and the transformation of American Jewry's relationship with wider American society. These essays also illustrate the centrality of Zionism to the American Jewish experience and the extent to which American Jewry's national consciousness and the future direction of the Zionist project were forged in the crucible of the Great War. An Equal Share of Freedom is the first volume in the Jacob Rader Marcus Series on the American Jewish Experience. In this series, Raider, Segev, and Zola highlight the myriad possibilities for expanding and deepening scholarly understanding of American Jews and the shared history of American society and the Jewish people in the twentieth century, starting with a look at World War I.
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Editor's Note
- Foreword - Jewish Welfare Board Hut, US Army & Navy, Iowa State Fair, c. 1918-1919 - Jehuda Einharz
- Introduction - Over There, Over Here: American Jews and the Crisis of WWI - Mark A. Raider
- Chapter 1 - Woodrow Wilson, Progressivism, and the Great War: Conflicted Leadership in the New Century - Daniel Tichenor
- Chapter 2 - Wartime Mobilization and the Political Consciousness: the Case of East European Jewish Immigrants in New York - Christopher Sterba
- Chapter 3 - The Jewish Welfare Board and the Challenges of Zionism in Wartime America - Jessica Cooperman
- Chapter 4 - The Big Tent's Collapse: The Balfour Declaration and Emergent Cleavages in American Hebraism - Philip Hollander
- Chapter 5 - "President Wilson Speaks for America": The Brandeis Group, the American Jewish Congress, and the Balfour Declaration - Mark A. Raider
- Chapter 6 - "It's a Great Life if You Don't Weaken": Jacob Raider Marcus's Reflections on Being a Jewish Doughboy - Gary Phillip Zola
- Chapter 7 - Jessie Sampter's Pacifism and the Curious Invisibility of Women Zionist Thinkers - Sarah Imhoff
- Chapter 8 - Golda Meir and the Balfour Declaration - Pnina Lahav
- Chapter 9 - Beyond Philanthropy and State-Building: The Transitional Impact of American Zionism on Postwar Jewish Reconstruction - Zohar Segev
- Afterword - The Balfour Declaration in Historical and Political Perspective - Susannah Heschel
- Timeline - Timeline of American Jewish History in Global Context
