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  title info:
    title: Salo Baron
    sub title: the past and future of Jewish studies in America
  name:
    name part: Kobrin, Rebecca
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 century, the author of many books including the eighteen-volume A Social and Religious History of the Jews. He also created a program and a discipline, mentoring hundreds of scholars, establishing major institutions including the first academic center to study Israel in the United States, building Columbia's Judaica collection, intervening as a public intellectual and exerting an unparalleled influence on what it meant to study the Jewish past. This book brings together leading scholars to consider how Baron transformed the course of Jewish studies in the United States. From a variety of perspectives, they reflect on his contributions to the study of Jewish history, literature and culture, as well as his scholarship, activism and mentorship. Among many distinguished contributors, David Sorkin engages with Baron's arguments on Jewish emancipation, Francesca Trivellato puts him in conversation with economic history, David Engel examines his use of anti-Semitism as an analytical category, Deborah Lipstadt explores his testimony at the trial of Adolf Eichmann and Robert Chazan and Jane Gerber, both once Baron's doctoral students, offer personal and intellectual reminiscences. Together, they testify to Baron's singular legacy in shaping Jewish studies in America.
  table of contents: 1. Salo Baron's Legacy and the Shaping of Jewish Studies into the Twenty-First Century -- 2. Finding the Future in the Jewish Past: Salo Baron at Columbia -- 3. Emancipation: Salo Baron's Achievement -- 4. An Economic Historian Reads Salo Baron -- 5. Salo Baron on Antisemitism -- 6. The Professor in the Courtroom: Salo W. Baron at the Eichmann Trial -- 7. Building the Foundations of Scholarship at Home: Salo Baron and the Judaica collections at Columbia University Libraries -- 8. From Europe to Pittsburgh: Salo Baron and Yosef Yerushalmi Between the Lacrymose Theory and the Vertical Alliance -- 9. Salo Baron and his Innovative Reconstruction of the Jewish Past -- 10. The Human Side of Salo Baron: Reminiscences From His Dining Room Table Graduate Colloquium -- 11. Recollections From the Baron Daughters.
  note: edited by Rebecca Kobrin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Baron, Salo W. (Salo Wittmayer)
      name part: 1895-1989
  subject:
    topic: Jewish historians
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Judaism
    topic: History
    topic: Study and teaching (Higher)
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    topic: History
    topic: Study and teaching (Higher)
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Columbia University.
      name part: Center of Israel and Jewish Studies.
  classification: DS115.9.B37 K63 2022
  classification: 909/.04924007202 B
  identifier: 9780231204842
  identifier: 0231204841
  identifier: 9780231204859
  identifier: 023120485X
  identifier: 9780231555708
  identifier: 2021044684
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210909
    record change date: 20220504193412.7
    record identifier: in00004562030