Renewing and Recycling:
The Formation of American Jewish Environmentalism
in the 1970s and 1980s
Gabrielle Plotkin
Advisor:
Keith Woodhouse
B.A. Thesis for Honors in History
Northwestern University
May 3, 2021
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Abstract
Few environmental historians have considered how American Jews interacted with the
postwar environmental movement. Those that have, often characterize American Jews as
“urban” and separate from nature. However, I demonstrate that American Jewry’s involvement
in left-leaning politics and inclination to both ...
