Contents TO OUR READERS Gary P. Zola, Editor pp. 7-9 ARTICLES: American Jews and the Effort to Reform Motion Pictures, 1933-1935 Felicia Herman pp. 11-44 upon film content, is one attacks upon ) examine the actual influence the movement to“! Golden Age of how American Jewn Hoover, Palestine, and the American Jewish Community Sonja Wentling pp. 45-64 American Jewry has received Sonja Wentling’s ie Ammeerriiccaaln “The Significance of a Jewish University”: A Sermon on the Founding of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Kimmy Caplan pp. 65-82 We know a great deal about the social, political, and even economic issues surrounding the founding of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1925. Less well nown are the religious responses, especially those among the American Jewish nmunity. Kimmy Caplan uses rmon abbi Israel H. Levinthal in New York 1 vehicle for examining how American Judaism regarded the founding of the first wish Universit The Transformation of Jewish Social Services in Atlanta, 1928-1948 Mark Bauman pp. 83-111 undergone of the ewish community Jewish Women and Vocational Education in New York City, 1885-1925 Melissa Klapper pp. 113-146 ( n ne Creating Hebraism, Confronting Hellenism: The Menorah Journal and its Struggle for the Jewish Imagination Lewis Fried pp. 147-174 The significance of Hebrew and Hebraic culture was part of an extended dialogpuls among American Jewish intellectuals during the first part of the twentieth century Lewis Fried provides a detailed analysis of how this debate played out among members of the Intercollegiate Menorah Association and through the Menorah Journal, reached a wide audi » of American Jewish students. Fundamentally, the debates over a distinctive Hebraic culture helped fuel the growth of an American Jewish historical conscio BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH AND DOCUMENT: Jacob De La Motta, M.D.: An Early American Jewish Medical Pioneer Theodore Cohen pp. 175-86 REVIEW ESSAY: Jewish Wars, American Style e Samuel G. Freedman US. jeEW The Struggle for the Soul Of American Jewry Benny Kraut pp. 187-98 BOOK REVIEWS: , = D... a oe | oS tee —_ , ; Lawrence N. Powell, Troubled Memory Anne Levy, the Holocaust ind David Duk ouisiana reviewed by Sonia Spear pp. 199-201 Hollace Ava Weiner, Jewish Stars in Texas: Rabbis and Their Work reviewed by April Blackburn pp. 203-05 Rose Laub Coser, Laura S. Anker, and Andrew J. Perrin, Women of Courage: Jewish and Italian Immigrant Women in New York reviewed by Jane Rothstein pp. 211-12 Louise London, Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948: British Immigration Policy and the Holocaust reviewed by Roger Daniels pp. 213-16 SHORT BOOK REVIEWS: pp. 217-23 NEWS FROM THE JACOB RADER MARCUS CENTER OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES The World Jewish Congress Collection Kevin Proffitt and Ina Remus pp. 217-23 Recent Acquisitions Kevin Proffitt pp. 223-28