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Title:

Writing a modern Jewish history : essays in honor of Salo W. Baron / edited by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett ; essays by Arthur Hertzberg ... [et al.] ; poems by Robert Pinsky.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

x, 127 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Jews--United States--History.
Jews--United States--Identity.
Jews--United States--Civilization.
Joden.
Geschiedschrijving.
Verenigde Staten.

Other Authors:

Baron, Salo Wittmayer, 1895-1989.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara.
Hertzberg, Arthur.
Pinsky, Robert.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [107]-116) and index.

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:

9780300106770 (alk. paper)
0300106777 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006004006

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)