David Sorkin

David Sorkin shine farfesa Lucy G. Moses na Tarihin Yahudawa a Jami'ar Yale .  Sorkin ya ƙware a cikin haɗuwa da tarihin Yahudawa da na Turai, kuma ya buga manyan littattafai da yawa ciki har da Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries .

 Ayyuka 
Sorkin ya kammala karatu daga Jami'ar Wisconsin-Madison a 1975 (Phi Beta Kappa). A shekara ta 1977 ya sami digiri na biyu a fannin adabi, kuma a 1983 ya sami digiri ya biyu a fannonin tarihi daga Jami'ar California, Berkeley . 

Ya koyar a Brown (1983-1986), Oxford (1986-1992), Jami'ar Wisconsin-Madison (1992-2011), da Cibiyar Nazarin CUNY (2011-2014).

Sorkin ya wallafa wasu fitattun ayyuka a Tarihin Yahudawa. Littafinsa na farko, The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780-1840 wanda aka buga a 1987, ya yi jayayya cewa 'yanci bai haifar da "samfadowa" ba amma ga kafa "al'adun gargajiya" wanda ya haɗu da al'adun Jamus, kuma musamman manufa ta Bildung, tare da Yahudanci  A cikin 1996 ya rubuta Musa Mendelssohn da Haskakawar Addini, taƙaitaccen nazarin tunanin Yahudawa wanda, bisa ga rubuce-rubucen Ibrananci da aka yi watsi da su, ya yi jayayyar cewa Mendelssohron ya yi amfani da ra'ayoyi masu ra'ayoyin ra'ayoyayi masu ra'ayi masu ra-rubuce-rube. An fassara littafin zuwa Faransanci, Jamusanci, da Italiyanci.

A shekara ta 2000 ya rubuta The Berlin Haskalah da German Religious Thought: Orphans of Knowledge . Littafin, wanda aka fara bayarwa a shekarar 1997 a matsayin Sherman Lectures a Sashen Addinai da tauhidi a Jami'ar Manchester (UK), ya yi jayayya cewa ya kamata a fahimci Haskalah a cikin mahallin sauye-sauyen addini da ilimi na Tsakiyar Turai maimakon a matsayin sabon abu na Yahudawa. A cikin The Religious Enlightenment: Furotesta, Yahudawa, da Katolika daga London zuwa Vienna (Yahudawa, Kiristoci, da Musulmai daga Dā zuwa Duniya ta Zamani) da aka buga a cikin 2008, Sorkin ya sake fahimtar dangantakar Haskakawa da Addini, yana jayayya cewa masu tunani na addini na duk ikirarin sun yi amfani da falsafar Haskakawa kuma kimiyya don sake bayyana imani. Littafinsa na baya-bayan nan shine Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries (2019), cikakken binciken farko na batun. Ya nuna cewa 'yanci ya kasance kuma ya kasance babban abin da ya faru a tarihin Yahudawa na zamani. An fassara shi zuwa Romanian da Sinanci.

Sorkin ya hada hannu da shirya kundin guda uku: Profiles in Diversity: Jews in a Changing Europe, 1750-1870 (1998),  New Perspectives on the Haskalah (2001),  da What History Tells: George L. Mosse and the Culture of Modern Europe (2004).  Ya yi aiki a matsayin mataimakin edita na The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies (2002), wanda ya lashe lambar yabo ta littafin Yahudawa ta kasa. Tare da Edward Breuer a matsayin co-editor da mai fassara ya buga, Moses Mendelssohn's Hebrew Writings (Yale Judaic Studies, Yale University Press, 2018).

 Karɓuwa 
Littattafan Sorkin sun yi tasiri sosai. The American Historical Review ya bayyana Sorkin's The Religious Enlightenment: Furotesta, Yahudawa, da Katolika daga London zuwa Vienna a matsayin aikin da ke yin "bincike mai ban sha'awa game da ci gaba mai kama da juna a cikin addinai daban-daban a cikin karni na sha takwas. " Hakazalika, The New York Times ya bayyana shi a matsayin "aiki mai ƙarfafawa" game da yadda "manyan addinai na Turai suka samar da ƙungiyoyin sake fasalin addini da suka dace da haskakawa" Tarihin Turai na tsakiya ya sake duba shi a matsayin littafi na "babban muhimmanci, ga masu zamani na farko da na zamani".

Sorkin ya sami tallafi daga National Endowment for the Humanities (1994-5) da kuma Gidauniyar Tunawa da John Simon Guggenheim (2005-06). Shi ɗan'uwan Kwalejin Amurka ce don Binciken Yahudawa .

 Kyaututtuka 

 1988 Joel H. Cavior Literary Award for History (The Transformation of German Jewry) 
 2003 Kyautar Littafin Yahudawa ta Kasa don Kyautar Ilimi (Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies) 
 2010 Kyautar Koyarwa ta Dorothy da Hsin-Nung Yao (Tarihi, UW-Madison) 
 2019 Kyautar Musa Mendelssohn (Leo Baeck Institute, New York) 

 Bayanan littattafai 

 Jewish Emancipation:  A History Across Five Centuries (Princeton University Press, 2019) 
 The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780–1840 (Oxford University Press, 1987) (pbk. 1990); New edition (Wayne State University Press, 1999) 
 The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World) (Princeton University Press, 2008) 
 Berlin Haskalah and German Religious Thought: Orphans of Knowledge (Parkes-Wiener Series on Jewish Studies) (Vallentine Mitchell, 1999) 
 Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment (Jewish Thinkers) (University of California Press, 1996) 

 Duba kuma 

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