UID:
almafu_9961152416802883
Format:
1 online resource (273 pages)
ISBN:
0-231-55570-9
Content:
In 1930, Columbia University appointed Salo Baron to be the Nathan L. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Literature, and Institutions. This book brings together leading scholars to consider how Baron transformed the course of Jewish studies in the United States.
Note:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Salo Baron, Columbia University, and the Expansion of Jewish Studies in Twentieth America, by Rebecca Kobrin -- 1. Salo Baron's Legacy and the Shaping of Jewish Studies Into the Twenty-First Century, by Jason Lustig -- 2. Finding the Future in the Jewish Past: Salo Baron at Columbia, by Bernard D. Cooperman -- 3. Emancipation: Salo Baron's Achievement, by David Sorkin -- 4. An Economic Historian Reads Salo Baron, by Francesca Trivellato -- 5. Salo Baron on Anti-Semitism, by David Engel -- 6. The Professor in the Courtroom: Salo W. Baron at the Eichmann Trial, by Deborah Lipstadt -- 7. Building the Foundations of Scholarship at Home: Salo Baron and the Judaica Collections at Columbia University Libraries, by Michelle Margolis Chesner -- 8. From Europe to Pittsburgh: Salo W, Baron and Yosef H. Yerushalmi Between the Lachrymose Theory and the End of the Vertical Alliance, by Pierre Birnbaum -- 9. Salo Baron and His Innovative Reconstruction of the Jewish Past, by Robert Chazan -- 10. Remembering Professor Salo Baron: Personal Recollections of a Former Student, by Jane Gerber -- 11. Recollections from the Baron Daughters, by Shoshana B. Tancer & -- Toby B. Gitelle -- Bibliography of the Publications of Professor Salo Wittmayer Baron (1895-1989), by Menachem Butler -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Kobrin, Rebecca Salo Baron New York : Columbia University Press,c2022
Language:
English
