Description: Explores the roles of the two oldest American Jewish fraternal organizations in the process of American Jewish identity formation.
Brief description: Cornelia Wilhelm is currently DAAD Professor at the Departments of History and Jewish Studies at Emory University. She also teaches as Professor in the Department of History at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. She is author of Movement or Association? Nazi Volkstumspolitik among German Americans 1933-1945, German Jews in the United States: A Guide to Archival Collections, and German Jews in America: Bourgeois Civil Self-Awareness and Jewish Identity in the Orders B'nai B'rith and True Sisters.
Review Quotes:
This is an exceptionally well-researched book, often drawing on previously unknown sources in English and German. . . Wilhelm has made an important contribution to the history of the modernization and Americanization of Jewish culture and religion.
--Daniel Soyer "Journal of American History"