Salo Baron : : The Past and Future of Jewish Studies in America /

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

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 c...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 13 b&w figures
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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

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