Equal Share of Freedom

Mark A. Raider is professor of modern Jewish history in the Department of History at the University of Cincinnati. He is coeditor, with Gary Phillip Zola, of New Perspectives in American Jewish History: A Documentary Tribute to Jonathan D. Sarna and author of The Essential Hayim Greenberg: Essays and Addresses on Jewish Culture, Socialism, and Zionism. Zohar Segev holds the Reuben Hecht Chair in Zionism and History at the University of Haifa. He is the author of From Ethnic Politicians to National Leaders: American Zionist Leadership, the Holocaust, and the Establishment of Israel and The World Jewish Congress during the Holocaust: Between Activism and Restraint. Gary Phillip Zola is the executive director of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives and the Edward M. Ackerman Family Distinguished Professor of the American Jewish Experience and Reform Jewish History at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

• - 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

Select Guide Rating