Author: American Jewish CommitteePublisher:
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Languages : en
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Program and Policy of the American Jewish Committee, Founded 1906
Author: American Jewish CommitteePublisher:
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Languages : en
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Not Free to Desist
Author: Naomi Wiener CohenPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Highlights of Forty Years
Author: Facts- about the American Jewish Committee
Author: American Jewish CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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Inventory of Records of the American Jewish Committee, 1906-80
Author: American Jewish CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Antisemitism
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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American Jewish Committee 1906-1981
Author: American Jewish CommitteePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Program and Policy of the American Jewish Committee
Author: American Jewish CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Minorities
Languages : en
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The Public Advocacy of the American Jewish Committee, 1906-1929
Author: Joshua PerellPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The American Jewish Committee (AJC) was founded in 1906 by a group of elite Jewish communal leaders. In the historiography on the organization, the Committee's earliest activities are described as limited to quiet diplomacy, involving the discreet lobbying of public officials. This dissertation challenges this account of the AJC's early activism, arguing that, from its founding, the Committee was involved in more overt forms of public advocacy and was building the infrastructure to carry out the public advocacy work of modern special interest groups. While the AJC's leaders continued to practice quiet diplomacy, they also released public statements, sponsored research, subsidized the publication of books, became involved in public interest litigation, and widely distributed pamphlets in an effort to influence public opinion. Using documents from the AJC's archives, this dissertation presents a series of case studies of the organization's earliest public advocacy work and describes its leaders' deliberations about how to expand the Committee's research and advocacy infrastructure and avert an intensification of anti-Semitism in the United States. The advocacy tactics the AJC employed were adaptations of techniques used by older European Jewish leadership organizations. The Committee's leaders tailored these approaches according to their understanding of the threats the American Jewish community faced during the early-twentieth century. The activities of the Committee's founders and early leaders shaped the AJC's later, more conspicuous public advocacy on behalf of American Jewry and other minority communities in the United States.
The Politics of Ethnic Pressure
Author: Judith GoldsteinPublisher:
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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The Politics of Ethnic Pressure
Author: Judith S. GoldsteinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000097234
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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Originally published in 1990, The Politics of Ethnic Pressure examines and evaluates the lobbying activities of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) between 1906 and 1917. The AJC worked to confront two specific problems: the outbreak of a series of programs against the Jews in Russia, and the campaign of the restrictionists in the United States who sought to impede the entry of the new immigrants from eastern and southern Europe. This book focuses on the lobbying activities of the AJC with respect to these issues, and puts forward key questions as to why they cared about the Russian problem, how they viewed their place within American society, and how they lobbied on behalf of their Jewish interests.