ISBN:
9781602801486
Language:
English
Pages:
XVII, 642 p
,
Ill.
Year of publication:
2010
DDC:
973/.04924
Keywords:
Marcus, Jacob Rader
;
Jews History
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes index
,
After sixty years: an appreciation
,
Jacob Rader Marcus and the archive he built
,
A land that needs people for its increase: how the Jews won the right to remain in New Netherland
,
Architecture of autonomy: the Blessing and Peace Synagogue of Suriname
,
David Nassy's "furlough" and the slave Mattheus
,
The democratization of American Judaism
,
Jonas Phillips Levy: a Jewish naval captain in the early Republic
,
Beyond the parochial image of Southern Jewry: studies in national and international leadership and interactive mechanisms
,
An ambivalent relationship: Isaac M. Wise and the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith
,
The odyssey of a liturgist: Isaac S. Moses as architect of the Union Prayer Book
,
Modern Maccabees: remaking Hanukkah in nineteenth century America
,
The spirit of Jewish history: from Nachman Krochmal to Ahad Ha'am
,
Creating cultural space: Jews and Judaism at a public university in the 1920s
,
Robert King Merton, his science, and the promise of the Enlightenment
,
When Harry met Max
,
Rethinking the history of nonobservance as an American Orthodox Jewish lifestyle
,
The United States in Abba Hillel Silver's world view
,
Heschel and the roots of kavanah
,
The postwar pursuit of American Jewish history and the memory of the Holocaust
,
The historical consciousness of mid-century American Reform Judaism and the historiography of Ellis Rivkin
,
Telling the American story: Yiddish and the narratives of children of immigrants
,
Henrietta Szold: the making of an icon
,
Yentl: from yeshiva boy to syndrome
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31112
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