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
Rebecca Kobrin is the Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History at Columbia University. She is the author of Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora (2010), editor of Chosen Capital: The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism (2012), and coeditor of Purchasing Power: The Economics of Jewish History (2015).
A wonderful addition to the literature on the pioneering Columbia
University Jewish historian Salo Baron and his remarkable legacy.
Replete with important insights concerning Baron, his times, the
field of Jewish studies, and the writing of Jewish history.
*Jonathan D. Sarna, author of American Judaism: A
History*
This wonderful book is the best imaginable tribute to the
"architect" of modern Jewish studies and history. Engaging with the
work and legacy of Salo Baron critically as well appreciatively,
the essays in this volume are brilliantly thought-provoking studies
about the direction of Jewish historical studies, resonating with
the perplexities and complexities that are as alive now as when
Baron produced his epic work.
*Simon Schama, author of The Story of the Jews: Finding the
Words 1000 BCE - 1429 CE*
The essays in this book offer thoughtful and revealing assessments
of Salo Baron’s scholarship and position as a founding figure in
Jewish studies in the United States. The volume limns not only
Baron’s remarkable accomplishments but also the contexts in which
he came of age, produced his finest work, and became a public
figure, both at Columbia University and throughout the world.
*Derek Penslar, Harvard University*
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
