LEADER 04448nam 2200625 450 001 9910815566103321 005 20230803201941.0 010 $a0-8165-9878-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000092362 035 $a(EBL)3411880 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001136199 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11622004 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001136199 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11102414 035 $a(PQKB)11023008 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3411880 035 $a(OCoLC)874965704 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse33168 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3411880 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10843925 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL585270 035 $a(OCoLC)923439453 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000092362 100 $a20140315h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA passion for the true and just $eFelix and Lucy Kramer Cohen and the Indian New Deal /$fAlice Beck Kehoe 210 1$aTucson, Arizona :$cUniversity Of Arizona Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (246 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8165-3093-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents -- 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. 330 $a" Felix Cohen, the lawyer and scholar who wrote The Handbook of Federal Indian Law (1942), was enormously influential in American Indian policy making. Yet histories of the Indian New Deal, a 1934 program of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, neglect Cohen and instead focus on John Collier, commissioner of Indian affairs within the Department of the Interior (DOI). Alice Beck Kehoe examines why Cohen, who, as DOI assistant solicitor, wrote the legislation for the Indian Reorganization Act (1934) and Indian Claims Commission Act (1946), has received less attention. Even more neglected was the contribution that Cohen's wife, Lucy Kramer Cohen, an anthropologist trained by Franz Boas, made to the process. Kehoe argues that, due to anti-Semitism in 1930s America, Cohen could not speak for his legislation before Congress, and that Collier, an upper-class WASP, became the spokesman as well as the administrator. According to the author, historians of the Indian New Deal have not given due weight to Cohen's work, nor have they recognized its foundation in his liberal secular Jewish culture. Both Felix and Lucy Cohen shared a belief in the moral duty of mitzvah, creating a commitment to the "true and the just" that was rooted in their Jewish intellectual and moral heritage, and their Social Democrat principles. A Passion for the True and Just takes a fresh look at the Indian New Deal and the radical reversal of US Indian policies it caused, moving from ethnocide to retention of Indian homelands. Shifting attention to the Jewish tradition of moral obligation that served as a foundation for Felix and Lucy Kramer Cohen (and her professor Franz Boas), the book discusses Cohen's landmark contributions to the principle of sovereignty that so significantly influenced American legal philosophy"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aIndians of North America$xGovernment relations$y1934- 606 $aIndians of North America$xLegal status, laws, etc 606 $aNew Deal, 1933-1939 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1933-1945 615 0$aIndians of North America$xGovernment relations 615 0$aIndians of North America$xLegal status, laws, etc. 615 0$aNew Deal, 1933-1939. 676 $a323.1197 686 $aSOC021000$aHIS036060$2bisacsh 700 $aKehoe$b Alice Beck$f1934-$0629101 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815566103321 996 $aA passion for the true and just$93943655 997 $aUNINA