Jews and American Public Life : : Essays on American Jewish History and Politics / / David G. Dalin.

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• VerfasserIn: Dalin, David G.,
• MitwirkendeR: Sarna, Jonathan D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: North American Jewish Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

Over a career spanning forty years, David G. Dalin has written extensively about the role of American Jews in public life, from the nation’s founding, to presidential appointments of Jews, to lobbying for the welfare of Jews abroad, to Jewish prominence in government, philanthropy, intellectual life, and sports, and their one-time prominence in the Republican Party. His work on the separation of Church and State and a prescient 1980 essay about the limits of free speech and the goal of Neo-Nazis to stage a march in Skokie, Illinois, are especially noteworthy. Here for the first time are a collection of sixteen of his essays which portray American Jews who have left their mark on American public life and politics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Presidents, Presidential Appointments, and American Jews -- 1 The Founding Fathers and American Jews* -- 2 Presidents, Presidential Appointments, and Jews -- 3 The Appointment of Louis D. Brandeis, First Jewish Justice on the Supreme Court -- Part Two German-Jewish Notables and American Jewish Public Life -- 4 Mayer Sulzberger and American Jewish Public Life -- 5 Patron par Excellence— Mayer Sulzberger and the Early Seminary -- 6 Louis Marshall, the Jewish Vote, and the Republican Party -- 7 The Legacy of Julius Rosenwald -- 8 Cyrus Adler, Non-Zionism, and the Zionist Movement: A Study in Contradictions -- 9 Cyrus Adler and the Rescue of Jewish Refugee Scholars -- Part Three. Church-State Relations and American Jews -- 10 How High the Wall? American Jews and the Church-State Debate -- Part Four Jews and Civil Liberties -- 11 Jews, Nazis, and Civil Liberties -- Part Five. Jews and City Politics -- 12 Jewish Republicanism and City Politics: The San Francisco Experience, 1911–1963 -- Part Six. Jewish Intellectuals and Jewish Public -- 13 From Marxism to Judaism: Will Herberg in Retrospect -- 14 The Jewish Historiography of Hannah Arendt -- Part Seven. Jews, Baseball, and American Public Life -- 15 Hank Greenberg at 100: Remembering Baseball’s Greatest Jewish Superstar -- 16 A Brief, Brilliant Career: Why We Can’t Forget Sandy Koufax -- Index