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A Survey of Jewish History: An Early Representation of Orthodox Historiography on American Soil

As the era of mass immigration came to a close during the early twentieth century, a cadre of English-speaking American Orthodox rabbis emerged. Mostly younger than their East European immigrant Orthodox colleagues, these rabbis shared the understanding that in order to secure the future and relevance of Orthodoxy in the “New World” it was essential to provide Orthodox religious and cultural content that could be consumed in English, rather than continue the dominant Yiddishbased immigrant religious culture. This manifested in synagogue life and ritual, for example, in sermons delivered in English, in the cultural and educational agenda adopted by Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary after its reorganization in 1915, and in the founding of the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago in 1921.2 Another manifestation of this development was the publication of the Orthodox-oriented “Jewish Library” series. The first set of booklets in this series appeared toward the mid-1920s,3 and in 1928, the Macmillan