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

Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Jewish Museum, under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ; New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006.
Descriptionx, 127 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
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Subjects
Jews--United States. --History.
Jews--United States. --Identity.
Jews--United States. --Civilization.

Other author/creatorBaron, Salo W. (Salo Wittmayer), 1895-1989.
Other author/creatorKirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara.
Other author/creatorHertzberg, Arthur.
Other author/creatorPinsky, Robert.
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [107]-116) and index.
LCCN 2006004006
ISBN0300106777 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780300106770

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Joyner General Stacks E184.35 .W75 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold