Salo Baron : : The Past and Future of Jewish Studies in America / / ed. by Rebecca Kobrin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Birnbaum, Pierre,; Butler, Menachem,; Chazan, Robert,; Chesner, Michelle,; Cooperman, Bernard,; Engel, David,; Gerber, Jane,; Gitelle, Tobey,; Kobrin, Rebecca,; Lipstadt, Deborah,; Lustig, Jason,; Sorkin, David,; Tancer, Shoshana,; Trivellato, Francesca,
• HerausgeberIn: Kobrin, Rebecca,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 13 b&w figures

In 1930, Columbia University appointed Salo Baron to be the Nathan L. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Literature, and Institutions—marking a turning point in the history of Jewish studies in America. Baron not only became perhaps the most accomplished scholar of Jewish history in the twentieth century, the author of many books including the eighteen-volume A Social and Religious History of the Jews. He also created a program and a discipline, mentoring hundreds of scholars, establishing major institutions including the first academic center to study Israel in the United States, building Columbia’s Judaica collection, intervening as a public intellectual, and exerting an unparalleled influence on what it meant to study the Jewish past.This book brings together leading scholars to consider how Baron transformed the course of Jewish studies in the United States. From a variety of perspectives, they reflect on his contributions to the study of Jewish history, literature, and culture, as well as his scholarship, activism, and mentorship. Among many distinguished contributors, David Sorkin engages with Baron’s arguments on Jewish emancipation; Francesca Trivellato puts him in conversation with economic history; David Engel examines his use of anti-Semitism as an analytical category; Deborah Lipstadt explores his testimony at the trial of Adolf Eichmann; and Robert Chazan and Jane Gerber, both once Baron’s doctoral students, offer personal and intellectual reminiscences. Together, they testify to Baron’s singular legacy in shaping Jewish studies in America.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION Salo Baron, Columbia University, and the Expansion of Jewish Studies in Twentieth-Century America -- Contributor -- Chapter One Salo Baron’s Legacy and the Shaping of Jewish Studies Into the Twenty-First Century -- Chapter Two Organizing the Jewish Past for American Students: Salo Baron at Columbia -- Chapter Three Emancipation: Salo Baron’s Achievement -- Chapter Four An Economic Historian Reads Salo Baron -- Chapter Five Salo Baron on Anti-Semitism -- Chapter Six The Professor in the Courtroom: Salo W. Baron at the Eichmann Trial -- Chapter Seven Building the Foundations of Scholarship at Home: Salo Baron and the Judaica Collections at Columbia University Libraries -- Chapter Eight From Europe to Pittsburgh: Salo W. Baron and Yosef H. Yerushalmi Between the Lachrymose Theory and the End of the Vertical Alliance -- Chapter Nine Salo Baron and His Innovative Reconstruction of the Jewish Past -- Chapter Ten Remembering Professor Salo Baron: Personal Recollections of a Former Student -- Chapter Eleven Recollections from the Baron Daughters -- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF PROFESSOR SALO WITTMAYER BARON (1895–1989) -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX