New Essays in American Jewish History
Title | New Essays in American Jewish History PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela Susan Nadell |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Jews |
ISBN | 9781602801486 |
"Commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the American Jewish Archives and the tenth anniversary of Gary P. Zola as its Director, New Essays in American Jewish History includes twenty-two new articles representing the best in modern American and Jewish scholarship. More than a celebration, New Essays serves as a scholarly benchmark in the growing field of American Jewish studies." --Amazon.com.
Coming to Terms with America
Title | Coming to Terms with America PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan D. Sarna |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 464 |
Release | 2021-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0827618794 |
Coming to Terms with America examines how Jews have long “straddled two civilizations,” endeavoring to be both Jewish and American at once, from the American Revolution to today. In fifteen engaging essays, Jonathan D. Sarna investigates the many facets of the Jewish-American encounter—what Jews have borrowed from their surroundings, what they have resisted, what they have synthesized, and what they have subverted. Part I surveys how Jews first worked to reconcile Judaism with the country’s new democratic ethos and to reconcile their faith-based culture with local metropolitan cultures. Part II analyzes religio-cultural initiatives, many spearheaded by women, and the ongoing tensions between Jewish scholars (who pore over traditional Jewish sources) and activists (who are concerned with applying them). Part III appraises Jewish-Christian relations: “collisions” within the public square and over church-state separation. Originally written over the span of forty years, many of these essays are considered classics in the field, and several remain fixtures of American Jewish history syllabi. Others appeared in fairly obscure venues and will be discovered here anew. Together, these essays—newly updated for this volume—cull the finest thinking of one of American Jewry’s finest historians.
Jewish Roots in Southern Soil
Title | Jewish Roots in Southern Soil PDF eBook |
Author | Marcie Cohen Ferris |
Publisher | UPNE |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781584655893 |
A lively look at southern Jewish history and culture.
New Perspectives in American Jewish History
Title | New Perspectives in American Jewish History PDF eBook |
Author | Mark A. Raider |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 2021-07-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781684580538 |
Widely regarded as today's foremost American Jewish historian, Jonathan D. Sarna had a huge impact on the academy. Sarna's influence is perhaps nowhere more apparent than among his former doctoral students--a veritable "Sarna diaspora" of over three dozen active scholars around the world. Both a tribute to Sarna and an important collection in its own right, New Perspectives in American Jewish History was compiled by Sarna's former students and presents previously unpublished, neglected, or rarely seen historical documents and images that illuminate the breadth, diversity, and dynamism of the American Jewish experience. Beginning with the earliest known Jewish divorce in circum-Atlantic history (1774) and concluding with a Black Lives Matter Haggadah supplement (2019), the collection travels across time and space to shed light on intriguing and generative moments that span the varieties of Jewish experience in the American setting from the colonial era to the present. The materials underscore the interrelationship of myriad themes including ritual observance, Jewish-Christian relations, civil rights, Zionism and Israel, and immigration. While not intended as a comprehensive treatment of American Jewish history, the collection offers a chronological road map of American Jewry's evolving self-understanding and encounter with America over the course of four centuries. A brief prefatory note sets up the analytic context of each document and helps to unpack and explore its significance. The capacious and multifaceted quality of the American Jewish experience is further amplified here by a sampling of artistic texts such as photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and more.
A Unique People in a Unique Land
Title | A Unique People in a Unique Land PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Shapiro |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 430 |
Release | 2022-03-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781644697399 |
This diverse collection of essays explore the unique history of Jews in America and the various ways in which they have defined their identities both as Americans and as Jews. The topics of the essays range from sports and business to religion and business.
The Dynamics of American Jewish History
Title | The Dynamics of American Jewish History PDF eBook |
Author | Jacob Rader Marcus |
Publisher | UPNE |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781584653431 |
In this volume, Gary Phillip Zola brings together an assortment of Jacob Rader Marcus's most important unpublished essays. Marcus called upon American Jewry to study its heritage, insisting on the link between individual Jews and the larger Jewish community.
New Perspectives in American Jewish History
Title | New Perspectives in American Jewish History PDF eBook |
Author | Mark A. Raider |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 2021-07-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781684580521 |
Widely regarded as today's foremost American Jewish historian, Jonathan D. Sarna had a huge impact on the academy. Sarna's influence is perhaps nowhere more apparent than among his former doctoral students--a veritable "Sarna diaspora" of over three dozen active scholars around the world. Both a tribute to Sarna and an important collection in its own right, New Perspectives in American Jewish History was compiled by Sarna's former students and presents previously unpublished, neglected, or rarely seen historical documents and images that illuminate the breadth, diversity, and dynamism of the American Jewish experience. Beginning with the earliest known Jewish divorce in circum-Atlantic history (1774) and concluding with a Black Lives Matter Haggadah supplement (2019), the collection travels across time and space to shed light on intriguing and generative moments that span the varieties of Jewish experience in the American setting from the colonial era to the present. The materials underscore the interrelationship of myriad themes including ritual observance, Jewish-Christian relations, civil rights, Zionism and Israel, and immigration. While not intended as a comprehensive treatment of American Jewish history, the collection offers a chronological road map of American Jewry's evolving self-understanding and encounter with America over the course of four centuries. A brief prefatory note sets up the analytic context of each document and helps to unpack and explore its significance. The capacious and multifaceted quality of the American Jewish experience is further amplified here by a sampling of artistic texts such as photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and more.