Salo Baron: The Past and Future of Jewish Studies in America

Published by Columbia University Press 2022

Salo Baron

The Past and Future of Jewish Studies in America

Edited by: Rebecca Kobrin

https://doi.org/10.7312/kobr20484

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About this book

In 1930, Columbia University appointed Salo Baron to be the Nathan L. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Literature, and Institutions. This book brings together leading scholars to consider how Baron transformed the course of Jewish studies in the United States.

Author / Editor information

Rebecca Kobrin is the Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History at Columbia University. She is the author of Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora (2010), editor of Chosen Capital: The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism (2012), and coeditor of Purchasing Power: The Economics of Jewish History (2015).

Reviews

Derek Penslar, Harvard University:
The essays in this book offer thoughtful and revealing assessments of Salo Baron’s scholarship and position as a founding figure in Jewish studies in the United States. The volume limns not only Baron’s remarkable accomplishments but also the contexts in which he came of age, produced his finest work, and became a public figure, both at Columbia University and throughout the world.

Simon Schama, author of The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BCE - 1429 CE:
This wonderful book is the best imaginable tribute to the "architect" of modern Jewish studies and history. Engaging with the work and legacy of Salo Baron critically as well appreciatively, the essays in this volume are brilliantly thought-provoking studies about the direction of Jewish historical studies, resonating with the perplexities and complexities that are as alive now as when Baron produced his epic work.

Jonathan D. Sarna, author of American Judaism: A History:
A wonderful addition to the literature on the pioneering Columbia University Jewish historian Salo Baron and his remarkable legacy. Replete with important insights concerning Baron, his times, the field of Jewish studies, and the writing of Jewish history.

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INTRODUCTION Salo Baron, Columbia University, and the Expansion of Jewish Studies in Twentieth-Century America Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Contributor Rebecca Kobrin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One Salo Baron’s Legacy and the Shaping of Jewish Studies Into the Twenty-First Century Jason Lustig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter Two Organizing the Jewish Past for American Students: Salo Baron at Columbia Bernard Cooperman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Chapter Three Emancipation: Salo Baron’s Achievement David Sorkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Chapter Four An Economic Historian Reads Salo Baron Francesca Trivellato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Chapter Five Salo Baron on Anti-Semitism David Engel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Chapter Six The Professor in the Courtroom: Salo W. Baron at the Eichmann Trial Deborah Lipstadt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
Chapter Seven Building the Foundations of Scholarship at Home: Salo Baron and the Judaica Collections at Columbia University Libraries Michelle Chesner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Chapter Eight From Europe to Pittsburgh: Salo W. Baron and Yosef H. Yerushalmi Between the Lachrymose Theory and the End of the Vertical Alliance Pierre Birnbaum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
Chapter Nine Salo Baron and His Innovative Reconstruction of the Jewish Past Robert Chazan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Chapter Ten Remembering Professor Salo Baron: Personal Recollections of a Former Student Jane Gerber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Chapter Eleven Recollections from the Baron Daughters Shoshana Tancer and Tobey Gitelle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF PROFESSOR SALO WITTMAYER BARON (1895–1989) Menachem Butler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
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- Other: 13 b&w figures

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Published: April 19, 2022
ISBN: 9780231555708