Jews and American Public Life : Essays on American Jewish History and Politics / David G. Dalin and Jonathan D. Sarna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dalin, David G., author.

Sarna, Jonathan D., author.

Series:

North American Jewish studies.

North American Jewish Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States--Biography.

Jews.

Jews--United States--History.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2022]

Summary:

Over forty years, David G. Dalin has written extensively on the role of American Jews in politics and public life. Here gathered together for the first time are sixteen of those articles about American Jews who have left their mark on politics, government, philanthropy, intellectual life and even sports.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One. Presidents, Presidential Appointments, and American Jews

1 The Founding Fathers and American Jews*

2 Presidents, Presidential Appointments, and Jews

3 The Appointment of Louis D. Brandeis, First Jewish Justice on the Supreme Court

Part Two German-Jewish Notables and American Jewish Public Life

4 Mayer Sulzberger and American Jewish Public Life

5 Patron par Excellence— Mayer Sulzberger and the Early Seminary

6 Louis Marshall, the Jewish Vote, and the Republican Party

7 The Legacy of Julius Rosenwald

8 Cyrus Adler, Non-Zionism, and the Zionist Movement: A Study in Contradictions

9 Cyrus Adler and the Rescue of Jewish Refugee Scholars

Part Three. Church-State Relations and American Jews

10 How High the Wall? American Jews and the Church-State Debate

Part Four Jews and Civil Liberties

11 Jews, Nazis, and Civil Liberties

Part Five. Jews and City Politics

12 Jewish Republicanism and City Politics: The San Francisco Experience, 1911–1963

Part Six. Jewish Intellectuals and Jewish Public

13 From Marxism to Judaism: Will Herberg in Retrospect

14 The Jewish Historiography of Hannah Arendt

Part Seven. Jews, Baseball, and American Public Life

15 Hank Greenberg at 100: Remembering Baseball’s Greatest Jewish Superstar

16 A Brief, Brilliant Career: Why We Can’t Forget Sandy Koufax

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781644698839

1644698838

9781644698822

164469882X

OCLC:

1334343919