Anmerkung: 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 , In English

Anmerkung: Frontmatter , Contents , Introduction , Message from the Editors , Section I: Memory and History , 1 A Home for Jewish Learning in “The City on the Hill”: The History of Hebrew College , 2 Four Men Entered an Orchard , 3 Girsa de-Yanquta, or Hebrew in the Afternoon: A Memoir of the Prozdor in Worcester , 4 Israel Studies and the Hebrew (Teachers) College: A Memoir , 5 What They Celebrated, He Mourned: Arnold Wieder’s The Early Jewish Community of Boston’s North End (1962) , 6 Searching for Treasure: A Journey Back to Hebrew College , 7 Across Five Pesaḥs , Section II: Studies in Jewish Thought, History, and Literature , 8 The Fate of the First Clothing , 9 Seeking Sarah , 10 Jacob and Esau: Twinship and Identity Confusion , 11 The Book of Judith: A Literary Appreciation , 12 A Woman Walks Into a Bar: Betrothal Stories in Bavli Qiddushin , 13 What Problem? Medieval and Contemporary Responses to the “Oven of Akhnai” Story , 14 Legal Authority, Memory, and Moral Worthiness: Tosefta Pisḥa 4.13–14 and Later Rabbinic Traditions , 15 Mystical Ethics: Rabbi Moshe Cordovero and Tomer Devorah as Commentary on the Idra Rabbah , 16 R. Levi Yiẓḥaq of Zelichow and His Quest for Leadership in the Early Hasidic Movement , 17 “Seek Me and Live”: Reflections on the Spiritual Journey , 18 Rabbi Elimelekh Shapiro of Grodzisk: Sketching a Nineteenth-Century Hasidic Leader , 19 The Lives of Berish Baʻal Teshuvah , 20 Contemporary Israeli Explorations of Spiritual and Psychological Insights in the Tales of Rabbi Naḥman of Bratslav , 21 A Mystical Reunion in Manitoba: Howard Thurman and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi , 22 “Kakha Zeh Ḥinukhi”— “That Makes It Educational”: Parabolic Style in Kafka, Keret, and Castel-Bloom , Section III: Studies in Jewish Education , 23 Reading the Sefat Emet for Religious Consciousness: Modulations on Or ha-Ganuz , 24 Growing Up Jewish: Me’ah and American Jewish Adulthood , 25 Striving for Shlemut: Navigating Explicit and Implicit Religiosity in Jewish Education , Contributors , Index , In English