04448nam 2200625 450 991081556610332120230803201941.00-8165-9878-9(CKB)3710000000092362(EBL)3411880(SSID)ssj0001136199(PQKBManifestationID)11622004(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001136199(PQKBWorkID)11102414(PQKB)11023008(MiAaPQ)EBC3411880(OCoLC)874965704(MdBmJHUP)muse33168(Au-PeEL)EBL3411880(CaPaEBR)ebr10843925(CaONFJC)MIL585270(OCoLC)923439453(EXLCZ)99371000000009236220140315h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA passion for the true and just Felix and Lucy Kramer Cohen and the Indian New Deal /Alice Beck KehoeTucson, Arizona :University Of Arizona Press,2014.©20141 online resource (246 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8165-3093-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Indian New Deal -- 2. The Indian Reorganization Act -- 3. "Frankfurter's Jewish Cabal" -- 4. Felix and Lucy -- 5. The Handbook of Federal Indian Law -- 6. The Indian Claims Commission -- 7. The Consequences of Being Jewish -- 8. Felix Cohen's Awakening -- 9. Of Counsel to Tribes -- 10. Sovereignty: Not So Simple -- 11. Jewish Science, Philosophy, and Jurisprudence -- 12. The White Man, the Jew, and the Indian -- Notes -- Sources by Chapter -- Bibliographic Essay: Sources for This Book -- Bibliography -- Index." Felix Cohen, the lawyer and scholar who wrote The Handbook of Federal Indian Law (1942), was enormously influential in American Indian policy making. Yet histories of the Indian New Deal, a 1934 program of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, neglect Cohen and instead focus on John Collier, commissioner of Indian affairs within the Department of the Interior (DOI). Alice Beck Kehoe examines why Cohen, who, as DOI assistant solicitor, wrote the legislation for the Indian Reorganization Act (1934) and Indian Claims Commission Act (1946), has received less attention. Even more neglected was the contribution that Cohen's wife, Lucy Kramer Cohen, an anthropologist trained by Franz Boas, made to the process. Kehoe argues that, due to anti-Semitism in 1930s America, Cohen could not speak for his legislation before Congress, and that Collier, an upper-class WASP, became the spokesman as well as the administrator. According to the author, historians of the Indian New Deal have not given due weight to Cohen's work, nor have they recognized its foundation in his liberal secular Jewish culture. Both Felix and Lucy Cohen shared a belief in the moral duty of mitzvah, creating a commitment to the "true and the just" that was rooted in their Jewish intellectual and moral heritage, and their Social Democrat principles. A Passion for the True and Just takes a fresh look at the Indian New Deal and the radical reversal of US Indian policies it caused, moving from ethnocide to retention of Indian homelands. Shifting attention to the Jewish tradition of moral obligation that served as a foundation for Felix and Lucy Kramer Cohen (and her professor Franz Boas), the book discusses Cohen's landmark contributions to the principle of sovereignty that so significantly influenced American legal philosophy"--Provided by publisher.Indians of North AmericaGovernment relations1934-Indians of North AmericaLegal status, laws, etcNew Deal, 1933-1939United StatesPolitics and government1933-1945Indians of North AmericaGovernment relationsIndians of North AmericaLegal status, laws, etc.New Deal, 1933-1939.323.1197SOC021000HIS036060bisacshKehoe Alice Beck1934-629101MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815566103321A passion for the true and just3943655UNINA