Conversations with Colleagues

On Becoming an American Jewish Historian
Herausgeber: Gurock, Jeffrey S

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781618118561
• ISBN-10: 1618118560
• Artikelnr.: 52211571

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey S. Gurock is Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University. A prize-winning author or editor of twenty books in the field of American Jewish history, he was twice chair of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society and for twenty years an editor of its journal, "American Jewish History."

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Community of Scholars Who Grew a Field Jeffrey S. Gurock Chapter 1
Finding My Way: Uniting American Jewish Women's History and U.S. Women's History Joyce Antler Chapter 2
Reconstructing American Jewish Historical Studies Dianne Ashton Chapter 3
A Meandering and Surprising Career Mark K. Bauman Chapter 4
How I Became an American Jewish Historian and What That Meant For My Professional Life Hasia Diner Chapter 5
A Scholar-Athlete
s Discovery of American Jewish History Jeffrey S. Gurock Chapter 6
Object Lessons Jenna Weissman Joselit Chapter 7
How I Learned to Call America
the States
and Became an American Jewish Historian Eli Lederhendler Chapter 8
Sidewalk Histories or Uncovering the Venacular Jewishness of New York City Deborah Dash Moore Chapter 9
Becoming an
All-of-a-Kind
Jewish Historian Pamela S. Nadell Chapter 10
Joining Historians as an Anthropologist at the Table of American Jewish Culture Riv
Ellen Prell Chapter 11
My Life in American Jewish History Jonathan D. Sarna Chapter 12
From Kremenets to New York: My Personal Journeys as a Historian Shuly Rubin Schwartz Chapter 13
Finding My Place in
the Great Tradition
Gerald Sorin Chapter 14
Peripatetic Journeys Beth S. Wenger Chapter 15
The Past from the Periphery Stephen J. Whitfield Chapter 16
On Rabbis, Doctors and the American Jewish Experience Gary Phillip Zola