Inhalt: | 1. Salo Baron's Legacy and the Shaping of Jewish Studies into the Twenty-First Century -- 2. Finding the Future in the Jewish Past: Salo Baron at Columbia -- 3. Emancipation: Salo Baron's Achievement -- 4. An Economic Historian Reads Salo Baron -- 5. Salo Baron on Antisemitism -- 6. The Professor in the Courtroom: Salo W. Baron at the Eichmann Trial -- 7. Building the Foundations of Scholarship at Home: Salo Baron and the Judaica collections at Columbia University Libraries -- 8. From Europe to Pittsburgh: Salo Baron and Yosef Yerushalmi Between the Lacrymose Theory and the Vertical Alliance -- 9. Salo Baron and his Innovative Reconstruction of the Jewish Past -- 10. The Human Side of Salo Baron: Reminiscences From His Dining Room Table Graduate Colloquium -- 11. Recollections From the Baron Daughters. "In 1930, Columbia University appointed Salo Baron to be the Nathan L. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Literature, and Institutions-marking a turning point in the history of Jewish studies in America. Baron not only became perhaps the most accomplished scholar of Jewish history in the twentieth century, the author of many books including the eighteen-volume A Social and Religious History of the Jews. He also created a program and a discipline, mentoring hundreds of scholars, establishing major institutions including the first academic center to study Israel in the United States, building Columbia's Judaica collection, intervening as a public intellectual, and exerting an unparalleled influence on what it meant to study the Jewish past. This book brings together leading scholars to consider how Baron transformed the course of Jewish studies in the United States. From a variety of perspectives, they reflect on his contributions to the study of Jewish history, literature, and culture, as well as his scholarship, activism, and mentorship. Among many distinguished contributors: David Sorkin engages with Baron's arguments on Jewish emancipation; Francesca Trivellato puts him in conversation with economic history; David Engel examines his use of anti-Semitism as an analytical category; Deborah Lipstadt explores his testimony at the trial of Adolf Eichmann; and Robert Chazan and Jane Gerber, both once Baron's doctoral students, offer personal and intellectual reminiscences. Together, they testify to Baron's singular legacy in shaping Jewish studies in America"-- Provided by publisher |
