Writing a modern Jewish history
Subtitle: essays in honor of Salo W. Baron
By: edited by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett ; essays by Arthur Hertzberg ... [et al.] ; poems by Robert Pinsky.
Contributors: Baron, Salo Wittmayer, 1895-1989.; Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara.; Hertzberg, Arthur.; Pinsky, Robert.
Publisher: Jewish Museum, under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; Yale University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York; New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780300106770
Subjects: Jews -- United States -- History.; Jews -- United States -- Identity.; Jews -- United States -- Civilization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [107]-116) and index.
Table of contents: value: Foreword / Joan Rosenbaum; value: Introduction / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett; value: Salo W. Baron and the writing of modern Jewish history : speculations in honor of his centennial / Arthur Hertzberg; value: "Facing the New World" : what portraits of early American Jews reveal and what they obscure / Jonathan D. Sarna; value: The moral sublime : Jewish women and philanthropy in nineteenth-century America / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett; value: Jews of the Amazon : voices from the earthly paradise / Ariel Segal; value: Meyer Schapiro's Jewish unconscious / Donald Kuspit; value: The myth of Europe in America's Judaism / Susannah Heschel.