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New essays in American Jewish history: commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the American Jewish Archives
2010, American Jewish Archives of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973/.04924
Library of Congress
E184.35 .N49 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 642 p.
Number of pages
642

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31104618M
Internet Archive
newessaysinameri0000unse
ISBN 13
9781602801486
LCCN
2010019808
OCLC/WorldCat
613994900

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