Conversations with Colleagues : : On Becoming an American Jewish Historian /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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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

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