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New essays in American Jewish history : commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the American Jewish Archives / [edited by Pamela S. Nadell, Jonathan D. Sarna & Lance J. Sussman].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--United States--History.
- Jews.
- United States.
- History.
- Marcus, Jacob Rader, 1896-1995.
- Marcus, Jacob Rader.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 642 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cincinnati, Ohio : American Jewish Archives of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion ; Jersey City, NJ : Distributed by KTAV Pub. House, [2010]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781602801486
- 1602801487
- OCLC:
- 613994900
- Publisher Number:
- 99942182593
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