The picture at Menorah Journal: making "Jewish art". (Essay).(Editorial)

From: American Jewish History | Date: September 1, 2002| Author: Pappas, Andrea | Copyright information

Speaking for myself I can say that the Journal, by its presentation of information of Jewish life widely scattered in both time and place, serves to maintain my Jewish self-consciousness as no other publication can.... I am sure that without a Journal my Jewishness would fall off at many points. (1)

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As the above excerpt from a letter to the editor in the late 1920s declares, and as scholars have recently demonstrated, Menorah Journal was a signific...

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