Conversations with Colleagues : : On Becoming an American Jewish Historian / / ed. by Jeffrey S. Gurock.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Antler, Joyce,; Ashton, Dianne,; Bauman, Mark K.,; Dash Moore, Deborah,; Diner, Hasia,; Gurock, Jeffrey S.,; Lederhendler, Eli,; Nadell, Pamela S.,; Prell, Riv-Ellen,; Sarna, Jonathan D.,; Schwartz, Shuly Rubin,; Sorin, Gerald,; Weissman Joselit, Jenna,; Wenger, Beth S.,; Whitfield, Stephen J.,; Zola, Gary Phillip,
• HerausgeberIn: Gurock, Jeffrey S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: North American Jewish Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

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 in 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Contributions to Conversations -- Introduction: A Community of Scholars Who Grew a Field -- Finding My Way: Uniting American Jewish Women's History and U.S. Women's History -- Reconstructing American Jewish Historical Studies -- A Meandering and Surprising Career -- How I Became an American Jewish Historian and What That Meant for My Professional Life -- A Scholar-Athlete's Discovery of American Jewish History -- Object Lessons -- How I Learned to Call America "the States" and Became an American Jewish Historian -- Sidewalk Histories, or Uncovering the Venacular Jewishness of New York City -- Becoming an "All-of-a-Kind" Jewish Historian -- Joining Historians as an Anthropologist at the Table of American Jewish Culture -- My Life in American Jewish History -- From Kremenets to New York: My Personal Journey as a Historian -- Finding My Place in "the Great Tradition" -- Peripatetic Journeys -- The Past from the Periphery -- On Rabbis, Doctors, & the American Jewish Experience -- Index