Attribution
edited by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett ; essays by Arthur Hertzberg … [et al.] ; poems by Robert PinskyPublication Details
BookJewish Museum, under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America2006Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E184.35 .W75 2006 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Description
In this insightful book, an eclectic and distinguished group of writers explore the Jewish experience in the Americas and celebrate the legacy of Salo Wittmayer Baron (1895?1989), a preeminent scholar who revolutionized the study of Jewish history during his lengthy tenure at Columbia University. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- Foreword / Joan Rosenbaum
- Introduction / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
- Salo W. Baron and the writing of modern Jewish history : speculations in honor of his centennial / Arthur Hertzberg
- "Facing the New World" : what portraits of early American Jews reveal and what they obscure / Jonathan D. Sarna
- The moral sublime : Jewish women and philanthropy in nineteenth-century America / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
- Jews of the Amazon : voices from the earthly paradise / Ariel Segal
- Meyer Schapiro’s Jewish unconscious / Donald Kuspit
- The myth of Europe in America’s Judaism / Susannah Heschel
ISBN
- 0300106777
- 9780300106770
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