Jews and American public life : essays on American Jewish history and politics

Author(s)

• Dalin, David G.
• Sarna, Jonathan D.

Bibliographic Information

Jews and American public life : essays on American Jewish history and politics

David G. Dalin ; with a foreword by Jonathan D. Sarna

（North American Jewish studies）

Academic Studies Press, 2022

• : hardback

Note

Summary: "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"--Provided by publisher

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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

Foreword by Jonathan D. Sarna Acknowledgments Permissions Introduction Part One Presidents, Presidential Appointments and America's 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 America's Jews 10. 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 Life 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

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Details

• NCID: BC16157065
• ISBN:
  • 9781644698815
• LCCN: 2022014151
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boston
• Pages/Volumes: xxiv, 294 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : E184.37
  • DC23 : 973/.04924
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Jews -- United States -- Biography
  • LCSH : Jews -- United States -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BC16157032