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1 online resource |
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North American Jewish Studies |
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North American Jewish studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction: a community of scholars who grew a field / Jeffrey S. Gurock -- Finding my way: understanding American Jewish women's history and U.S. women's history / Joyce Antler -- Reconstructing American Jewish historical studies / Dianne Ashton -- A meandering and surprising career / Mark K. Bauman -- How I became an American Jewish historian and what that meant for my professional life / Hasia Diner -- A scholar-athelete's discovery of American Jewish history / Jeffrey S. Gurock -- Object lessons / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- How I learned to call America "the States" and became an American Jewish Historian / Eli Lederhendler -- Sidewalk histories, or uncovering the venacular Jewishness of New York City / Deborah Dash Moore -- Becoming an "All-of-a-Kind" Jewish historian / Pamela S. Nadell -- Joining historians as an anthropologist at the table of American Jewish culture / Riv-Ellen Prell -- My life in American Jewish history / Jonathan D. Sarna -- Fom Kremenets to New York: my personal journey as a historian / Shuly Rubin Schwartz -- Finding my place in "the great tradition" / Gerald Sorin -- Peripatetic Journeys / Beth S. Wagner -- The past from the periphery / Stephen J. Whitfield -- On rabbis, doctors & the American Jewish experience / Gary Phillip Zola |
| Summary |
Sixteen senior scholars of American Jewish history - among the men and women whose work and advocacy have moved their discipline into the mainstream of academia - converse on the intellectual and personal roads they have traveled in becoming leaders in their areas of expertise. Through their thoughtful and candid recollections of the challenges they faced becoming accepted academics, they retell the story of how the study of the Jews and Judaism in the United States rose from being long dismissed as an amateurish enterprise not worthy of serious consideration in the world of ideas to its position today as a respected field in communication with all humanities scholars. They also imagine and chart the direction the writing on American Jews will take in the coming era |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Jewish historians -- United States -- Biography
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Jews -- United States -- History
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Historians -- Jews -- United States
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Jewish historians
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Jews
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Juden
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Judentum
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Historiker
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Geschichtswissenschaft
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gurock, Jeffrey S., 1949- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781618118578 |
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1618118579 |
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