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Author: Dr. Sarah Schmidt

Dr. Sarah Schmidt teaches courses related to modern Jewish history at the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with an emphasis both on Israeli and American Jewish history.
Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America, A Biography, by M. M. Silver

Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America, A Biography, by M. M. Silver

December 30, 2013 | Dr. Sarah Schmidt
M. M. Silver, an American-Israeli historian who teaches at the Max Stern College of Emek Yezreel in Israel, has produced an extensively researched and heavily documented study of Louis Marshall, the early twentieth-century American-Jewish leader.
The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism: The Menorah Association and American Diversity, by Daniel Greene

The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism: The Menorah Association and American Diversity, by Daniel Greene

December 30, 2013 | Dr. Sarah Schmidt
The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism: The Menorah Association and American Diversity, by Daniel Greene, Indiana University Press, 2011. 185 pp. Reviewed by Sarah Schmidt Daniel Greene, Director of the Scholl Center for American History and Culture at the Newberry Library in Chicago, has written a well-researched monograph on the Intercollegiate Menorah Association, a group […]
Sarah Schmidt on Our Exodus: Leon Uris and the Americanization of Israel’s Founding Story by M.M. Silver

Sarah Schmidt on Our Exodus: Leon Uris and the Americanization of Israel’s Founding Story by M.M. Silver

April 11, 2011 | Dr. Sarah Schmidt
By showing how the representation of historical events in Exodus reflected Uris's need to define for himself a stronger identity as a Jew, one that would also bolster the morale of American Jews in post-Holocaust America, Silver frames his central argument: though  in Exodus Uris simplified some facts and distorted others, he provided a vast amount of information about Jewish history and popularized the Zionist narrative, providing examples of Jewish heroism that erased more conventional, "lachrymose" accounts of Jewish history.[1] ThusExodus played a vital role in the recovery of Jewish self-confidence after the devastation of the Holocaust and inspired American Jews to display openly their ethnic pride in a Jewish state.
Sarah Schmidt on American Jewry’s Comfort Level: Present and Future, by Manfred Gerstenfeld and Steven Bayme

Sarah Schmidt on American Jewry’s Comfort Level: Present and Future, by Manfred Gerstenfeld and Steven Bayme

November 1, 2010 | Dr. Sarah Schmidt
Sarah Schmidt on Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920: From Caste to Class

Sarah Schmidt on Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920: From Caste to Class

April 24, 2010 | Dr. Sarah Schmidt
Sarah Schmidt on Menachem Begin: The Absent Leader, by Ofer Grosbard

Sarah Schmidt on Menachem Begin: The Absent Leader, by Ofer Grosbard

December 24, 2008 | Dr. Sarah Schmidt
Sarah Schmidt on Bearing False Witness: Jimmy Carter’s Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, edited by CAMERA

Sarah Schmidt on Bearing False Witness: Jimmy Carter’s Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, edited by CAMERA

April 17, 2008 | Dr. Sarah Schmidt
Sarah Schmidt on Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America, by Andre S. Markovits

Sarah Schmidt on Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America, by Andre S. Markovits

April 12, 2008 | Dr. Sarah Schmidt
Sarah Schmidt on On the Road to Armageddon: How Evangelicals Became Israel’s Best Friend

Sarah Schmidt on On the Road to Armageddon: How Evangelicals Became Israel’s Best Friend

March 1, 2007 | Dr. Sarah Schmidt
Sarah Schmidt on Nations United: How the United Nations Is Undermining Israel and the West

Sarah Schmidt on Nations United: How the United Nations Is Undermining Israel and the West

March 1, 2007 | Dr. Sarah Schmidt
Sarah Schmidt on The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics: Israel versus the American Jewish Establishment

Sarah Schmidt on The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics: Israel versus the American Jewish Establishment

October 1, 2006 | Dr. Sarah Schmidt
Our Cousins “Down Under” Jews and Australian Politics edited by Geoffrey Brahm Levey and Philip Mendes

Our Cousins “Down Under” Jews and Australian Politics edited by Geoffrey Brahm Levey and Philip Mendes

March 30, 2006 | Dr. Sarah Schmidt
Sarah Schmidt on Jews and Australian Politics

Sarah Schmidt on Jews and Australian Politics

March 1, 2006 | Dr. Sarah Schmidt