Books written by Jonathan D. Sarna

Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York

These works are also valuable for the information they provide about craftsmanship, patronage, colonial Judaism, and changing cultural values in pre- and post-Revolutionary America.
Coming to Terms with America: Essays on Jewish History, Religion, and Culture

Where the society was idealistic, Bloch was utilitarian; reputedly, publisher Charles Bloch “considered favorably any manuscript which in his judgment would yield him a profit.” Like such American firms as Scribner and Putnam, ...
JPS: the Americanization of Jewish Culture, 1888-1988

42 ; Bloch , OMMB , p . 87 ; Dash , Summoned to Jerusalem , pp . 39 , 165 ; Alexandra Lee Levin and Lawrence L. Levin , “ The Seltzers and D.H. Lawrence : A Biographical Narrative , ” in D.H. Lawrence Letters to Thomas and Adele Seltzer ...
American Judaism: A History, Second Edition

Courtesy of Mark Bloch and K. K. Beth Elohim, Charleston. The words of the Shema in English and Hebrew carved above the entryway of the 1840 synagogue building of K. K. Beth Elohim in Charleston, South Carolina. Courtesy of Mark Bloch ...
Lincoln and the Jews: A History

On Wollman and Abeles, see Joan Ferris Curran,Jonas and Betty (Kohn) Wollman and Their Descendants (Kansas City: J. F.Curran, distributed by H.W.B. Glock, 1986); Joan Ferris Curran, Descendants of Salomon Bloch of Janowitz, Bohemia, ...
Minority Faiths and the American Protestant Mainstream

See , for example , Lewis A. Hart , A Jewish Reply to Christian Evangelists ( New York : Bloch Publishing , 1906 ) ; Arthur U. Michelson , From Judaism and Law to Christ and Grace ( Los Angeles : Jewish Hope Publishing House , 1934 ) ...
The History of the Jewish People: The Birth of Zionism to our time

In Hollywood , movie studios run by Jews as well as those run by non - Jews refused to hire people whose names appeared on blacklists , lists of writers and actors suspected of having Communist ties . The Rosenberg Case In August 1949 ...
Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience

This text focuses on what it means to be Jewish in America and the different positions held within the Jewish community on past and present church-state issues - whether Orthodox Jews in the military should wear yarmulkes while in uniform - ...
American Judaism

Fishman, Sylvia Barack. “American Jewish Fiction Turns Inward, 1960–1990.” American Jewish Year Book 91 (1991): 35–69. Fishman, Sylvia Barack. A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community. New York: Free Press, 1993.
Coming to Terms with America: Essays on Jewish History, Religion, and Culture

sociologist Sylvia Barack Fishman has shown, the cult of synthesis was transformed and internalized.61 Even as, outwardly, American Jews paid it less and less homage, inwardly it became one of their most pronounced cultural ...
Jewish Renaissance and Revival in America: Essays in Memory of Leah Levitz Fishbane

Sylvia Barack Fishman, Associate Editor For a complete list ofbooks that are available in the series, visit www.upne.com JewishRenaissance andRevival in AmeriCa Essays in Memory of Leah Levitz. Jonathan D. Sarna, Editor Eitan P.
American Judaism: A History

Fishman, A Breath of Life, esp. 121-141; Laura Geller, “From Equality to ... Exploration and Celebration, 69-80; Umansky and Ashton (eds), Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality, 23-24; 191-334; Penina V. Adelman, M iriam's Well.
Lincoln and the Jews: A History

M'Intosh, 21 U.S. 543, 5 L.Ed. 681, 8 Wheat. ... M'Intosh,” Law and History Review 19:1 (Spring 2001), 67-116. ... George W. Hawes, Illinois State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1858 and 1859 (Chicago, 1858), 205-7; Curtis Mann, ...
Coming to Terms with America: Essays on Jewish History, Religion, and Culture

For summaries and evaluations of the scholarship undertaken by the Seminary's leading scholars into the Finkelstein years, see especially Waxman, History of Jewish Literature, vols. 4 and 5; Trachtenberg, “American Jewish Scholarship,” ...
When General Grant Expelled the Jews

Award-winning historian Jonathan D. Sarna gives us the first complete account of this little-known episode--including Grant's subsequent apology, his groundbreaking appointment of Jews to prominent positions in his administration, and his ...
Jacksonian Jew: The Two Worlds of Mordecai Noah

Jacksonian Jew: The Two Worlds of Mordecai Noah
Jews and the Civil War: A Reader

It combines scurrilous attacks on the social and political celebritites of the day, disguised just enough to exercise titillating speculatuion, with luscious erotic tales." —Belles Lettres This story concerns the return of to earth of the ...
Women and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives

New portrayals of the religious lives of American Jewish women from colonial times to the present.
Jewish Renaissance and Revival in America: Essays in Memory of Leah Levitz Fishbane

... of this group of lay-leaders in the institution. He assumes, for example, that the religious impulse in the YMHA movement was drawn primarily from the rabbis who were involved in the institution. See Kaufman, Shul With a Pool ...
Abba Hillel Silver and American Zionism

The essays collected here investigate Rabbi Silver's Zionist political leadership, his impact on American Judaism, ideological orientation and relations with the leaders of the Palestine Jewish community, World Zionist Organization and the ...