New essays in American Jewish history: commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the American Jewish Archives
After sixty years: an appreciation / David Ellenson -- Jacob Rader Marcus and the archive he built / Kevin Proffitt -- A land that needs people for its increase: how the Jews won the right to remain in New Netherland / Paul Finkelman -- Architecture of autonomy: the Blessing and Peace Synagogue of S...
| Format: | Print Book |
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Cincinnati, Ohio
American Jewish Archives of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
2010
Jersey City, NJ Distr. by KTAV Pub. House 2010 |
| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Further subjects: | B
Jews (United States)
History
B Marcus, Jacob Rader (1896-1995) |
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| Summary: | After sixty years: an appreciation / David Ellenson -- Jacob Rader Marcus and the archive he built / Kevin Proffitt -- A land that needs people for its increase: how the Jews won the right to remain in New Netherland / Paul Finkelman -- Architecture of autonomy: the Blessing and Peace Synagogue of Suriname / Aviva Ben-Ur and Rachel Frankel -- David Nassy's "furlough" and the slave Mattheus / Natalie Zemon Davis -- The democratization of American Judaism / Jonathan D. Sarna -- Jonas Phillips Levy: a Jewish naval captain in the early Republic / William Pencak -- Beyond the parochial image of Southern Jewry: studies in national and international leadership and interactive mechanisms / Mark K. Bauman -- An ambivalent relationship: Isaac M. Wise and the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith / Cornelia Wilhelm -- The odyssey of a liturgist: Isaac S. Moses as architect of the Union Prayer Book / Eric L. Friedland -- Modern Maccabees: remaking Hanukkah in nineteenth century America / Dianne Ashton -- The spirit of Jewish history: from Nachman Krochmal to Ahad Ha'am / Alfred Gottschalk -- Creating cultural space: Jews and Judaism at a public university in the 1920s / William Toll -- Robert King Merton, his science, and the promise of the Enlightenment / Samuel Haber -- When Harry met Max / Leonard Greenspoon -- Rethinking the history of nonobservance as an American Orthodox Jewish lifestyle / Jeffrey S. Gurock -- The United States in Abba Hillel Silver's world view / Allon Gal -- Heschel and the roots of kavanah / David Ellenson and Michael Marmur -- The postwar pursuit of American Jewish history and the memory of the Holocaust / Hasia Diner -- The historical consciousness of mid-century American Reform Judaism and the historiography of Ellis Rivkin / Robert M. Seltzer -- Telling the American story: Yiddish and the narratives of children of immigrants / Rakhmiel Peltz -- Henrietta Szold: the making of an icon / Shuly Rubin Schwartz -- Yentl: from yeshiva boy to syndrome / Pamela S. Nadell |
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| Item Description: | Includes index |
| ISBN: | 1602801487 |