Conversations with colleagues : on becoming an American Jewish historian / edited by Jeffrey S. Gurock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Christine Hikawa Fund.

Gurock, Jeffrey S., 1949- editor.

Series:

North American Jewish studies

North American Jewish Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historians.

Jews.

Jewish historians.

United States.

Jewish historians--United States--Biography.

Jews--United States--History.

History.

Historians--Jews--United States.

Genre:

History.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

270 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2018.

Summary:

Sixteen senior scholars of American Jewish history - among the men and women whose work and advocacy have moved their discipline into the mainstream of academia - converse on the intellectual and personal roads they have traveled in becoming leaders in their areas of expertise. Through their thoughtful and candid recollections of the challenges they faced becoming accepted academics, they retell the story of how the study of the Jews and Judaism in the United States rose from being long dismissed as an amateurish enterprise not worthy of serious consideration in the world of ideas to its position today as a respected field in communication with all humanities scholars. They also imagine and chart the direction the writing on American Jews will take in the coming era.

Contents:

Introduction: a community of scholars who grew a field / Jeffrey S. Gurock

Finding my way: understanding American Jewish women's history and U.S. women's history / Joyce Antler

Reconstructing American Jewish historical studies / Dianne Ashton

A meandering and surprising career / Mark K. Bauman

How I became an American Jewish historian and what that meant for my professional life / Hasia Diner

A scholar-athelete's discovery of American Jewish history / Jeffrey S. Gurock

Object lessons / Jenna Weissman Joselit

How I learned to call America "the States" and became an American Jewish Historian / Eli Lederhendler

Sidewalk histories, or uncovering the venacular Jewishness of New York City / Deborah Dash Moore

Becoming an "All-of-a-Kind" Jewish historian / Pamela S. Nadell

Joining historians as an anthropologist at the table of American Jewish culture / Riv-Ellen Prell

My life in American Jewish history / Jonathan D. Sarna

Fom Kremenets to New York: my personal journey as a historian / Shuly Rubin Schwartz

Finding my place in "the great tradition" / Gerald Sorin

Peripatetic Journeys / Beth S. Wagner

The past from the periphery / Stephen J. Whitfield

On rabbis, doctors & the American Jewish experience / Gary Phillip Zola.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Christine Hikawa Fund.

ISBN:

9781618118561

1618118560

OCLC:

1029881827

Publisher Number:

99977162404