New essays in American Jewish history
Subtitle: commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the American Jewish Archives
Publisher: American Jewish Archives of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cincinnati, Ohio; Jersey City, NJ : Distributed by KTAV Pub. House
Language: eng
Number of pages: 642
ISBN-13: 9781602801486
Subjects: Jews; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: After sixty years: an appreciation / David Ellenson; title: Jacob Rader Marcus and the archive he built / Kevin Proffitt; title: A land that needs people for its increase: how the Jews won the right to remain in New Netherland / Paul Finkelman; title: Architecture of autonomy: the Blessing and Peace Synagogue of Suriname / Aviva Ben-Ur and Rachel Frankel; title: David Nassy's "furlough" and the slave Mattheus / Natalie Zemon Davis; title: The democratization of American Judaism / Jonathan D. Sarna; title: Jonas Phillips Levy: a Jewish naval captain in the early Republic / William Pencak; title: Beyond the parochial image of Southern Jewry: studies in national and international leadership and interactive mechanisms / Mark K. Bauman; title: An ambivalent relationship: Isaac M. Wise and the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith / Cornelia Wilhelm; title: The odyssey of a liturgist: Isaac S. Moses as architect of the Union Prayer Book / Eric L. Friedland; title: Modern Maccabees: remaking Hanukkah in nineteenth century America / Dianne Ashton; title: The spirit of Jewish history: from Nachman Krochmal to Ahad Ha'am / Alfred Gottschalk; title: Creating cultural space: Jews and Judaism at a public university in the 1920s / William Toll; title: Robert King Merton, his science, and the promise of the Enlightenment / Samuel Haber; title: When Harry met Max / Leonard Greenspoon; title: Rethinking the history of nonobservance as an American Orthodox Jewish lifestyle / Jeffrey S. Gurock; title: The United States in Abba Hillel Silver's world view / Allon Gal; title: Heschel and the roots of kavanah / David Ellenson and Michael Marmur; title: The postwar pursuit of American Jewish history and the memory of the Holocaust / Hasia Diner; title: The historical consciousness of mid-century American Reform Judaism and the historiography of Ellis Rivkin / Robert M. Seltzer; title: Telling the American story: Yiddish and the narratives of children of immigrants / Rakhmiel Peltz; title: Henrietta Szold: the making of an icon / Shuly Rubin Schwartz; title: Yentl: from yeshiva boy to syndrome / Pamela S. Nadell.