The changing Jewish political profile

American Jewish History

Volumn 91, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 423-438

  Friedman, Murray ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33847012796     PISSN: 01640178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/ajh.2005.0008     Document Type: Review

References (56)

1. Jews and the New American Scene (Cambridge, MA, 1995), 171-72.
2. See also Dollinger, "The Other War: American Jews, Lyndon Johnson and The Great Society, " American Jewish History 89 (2001): 437-61.
3. See, for example, David G. Dalin, "Judaism's War on Poverty, " Policy Review, September-October, 1967, 29-32;
4. Jerald S. Auerbach, Rabbis and Lawyers: The Journey from Torah to Constitution (Bloomington, 1990);
5. Jonathan D. Sarna, "American Jewish Political Conservatism in Historical Perspective, " American Jewish History 87 (1999);
6. and Charles S. Leibman, The Ambivalent Jew: Politics, Religion and Family in American Jewish Life (Philadelphia, 1973), 140-42.
7. Ira N. Forman, "The Politics of Minority Consciousness, " in L. Sandy Maisel and Ira N. Forman, eds., Jews in American Politics (Lanham, MD, 2001), 153.
8. See also Murray Friedman, "Opening the Discussion of American Jewish Political Conservatism, " American Jewish History 87 (1999);
9. Lawrence II. Fuchs, "American Jews and the Presidential Vote, " in Lawrence II. Fuchs, ed., American Ethnic Politics (New York, 1968), 52;
10. Herbert L. Solomon, "The Republican Party and the Jews, " Judaism 37, no. 3 (1988): 277;
11. David G. Dalin, "Louis Marshall, The Jewish Vote and the Republican Party, " Jewish Political Studies 4 no. I (1992): 55-84.
12. Dollinger, "The Other War, " 437.
13. Michael E. Staub, Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America (New York, 2002), 76-82.
14. Murray Friedman, "The Jews, " in Peter Rose, Stanley Rothman, and William J. Wilson, eds., Through Different Eyes: Black and White Perspectives on American Race Relations (New York, 1973), 255.
15. Edward Shapiro, "Right Turn? Jews and the American Conservative Movement, " in Maisel and Forman, eds., Jews in American Politics, 201.
16. Friedman, "The Jews, " 149; Henry Cohen and Gary Sandrow, Philadelphia Chooses a Mayor, 1971 (Philadelphia, 1972);
17. Sandra Featherman and William L. Rosenberg, Jews, Blacks and Ethnics: The 1978 "Vote White" Charter Campaign in Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1979).
18. Jerald E. Podair, The Failure to "See": Jews, Blacks, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Controversy, 1968 (Philadelphia, 1992), 1.
19. See also Jerald E. Podair, The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean-Hill Brownsville Crisis (New Haven, 2002).
20. Murray Friedman, What Went Wrong?: The Creation and Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance (New York, 1995), 317-18.
21. Late in 2003, former Mayor Koch, a Democrat for most of his career, announced he was planning to vote for President Bush because, in his view, he was "best able to wage the war against international terrorism." Jewish World Review, December 24, 2003.
22. Featherman and Rosenberg, Jews, Blacks and Ethnics, vi;
23. Edward I. Koch, Mayor: An Autobiography (New York, 1984), 79-84.
24. Forman in Maisel and Forman, Jews in American Politics, 153;
25. Staub, Torn at the Roots, 38.
26. Commentary, January 1970, "Jewish Class Conflict?" 37-42;
27. Friedman, "Introduction, " in Sandra Featherman, Philadelphia Elects a Black Mayor (Philadelphia, 1984), iv.
28. Murray Friedman, "Foreword, " Sandra Featherman, Jews, Blacks and Urban Politics in the 1980s: The Case of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1988);
29. and Friedman, What Went Wrong?, 340-41.
30. Forward, April 18, 1997;
31. Raphael J. Sonenshein, Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles (Princeton, 1993), 283-311.
32. Sandra Featherman and John Featherman, Race and Politics at the Millennium: The 1999 Mayoral Race in Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 2000). In 2003, however, in a rerun of that race, Katz lost to Street by a more commanding margin, but the Jewish vote could not be singled out.
33. Jewish Telegraphic Agency, October 4, 2002.
34. Forward, November 8, 2002.
35. Wall Street Journal, October 28, 2002.
36. E. J. Dionne, Jr., "In New York, Republicans are Learning Key Lessons in Liberal Politics, " Philadelphia Inquirer, December 30, 2002.
37. Friedman, "Are American Jews Moving to the Right? Commentary, April 2000, 50. Katz was defeated when he ran against incumbent Mayor John Street four years later.
38. Matthew E. Berger, "Republican Leadership, " Jewish Telegraphic Agency, December 16, 2002.
39. New York Times, December 24, 2002;
40. E. J. Dionne, "Will Lieberman's Moderation Be Seen as Weakness or Welcome Departure?" Philadelphia Inquirer, January 15, 2003.
41. On continuing liberal Jewish views on civil liberties and church state relations, see Steven M. Cohen, The Dimensions of American Jewish Liberalism (1989), 45-46.
42. Publications Department of the American Jewish Committee, New York, "American Jewish Committee Survey Questionaire, December 16, 2002-January 3, 2003, " 5.
43. "Democrats Worry Party Critics of Israel Are Costing Support, " Washington Post, June 25, 2002.
44. Sharon Samber, "Black, Jewish Legislators Meet As Relationship Comes Under Strain, " Jewish Telegraphic Agency, June 21, 2002.
45. "Why Even Ed Koch Will Vote for Giuliani, "Forward, December 20, 1996.
46. As quoted in Murray Friedman, "Are American Jews Moving to the Right?" Moment, October 1997, 50.
47. Research Institute for New Americans, Russian Jewish Immigrants in New York City: Status, Identity, and Integration (New York, 2000), 29.
48. On the current celebrity status of these younger Jewish conservatives, see David Frum's Op-ed article in the New York Times, January 5, 2003.
49. Jewish News (Metrowest, New Jersey), November 9, 2000. 35.
50. Forward, January 31, 2003;
51. Alan M. Fisher, "Where the Jewish Vote Is Going, " Moment, March 1989, 41-43.
52. Jay P. Lefkowitz, "Jewish Voters & the Democrats, " Commentary, April 1993, 38-41.
53. New York Review of Books, February 2, 1995 and April 20, 1995.
54. See Edward I. Koch, "Bolting for Bush, " Forward, January 9, 2004;
55. Gary Rosenblatt, "My '04 Vote Will Hinge on Israel, " Republican Jewish Coalition Bulletin, November-December 2003.
56. Earl Raab, "Are American Jews Still Liberal?" Commentary, February 1996, 45.