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Coming to Terms with America: Essays on Jewish History, Religion, and Culture (A JPS Scholar of Distinction Book) Hardcover – September 1, 2021
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In fifteen engaging essays, Jonathan D. Sarna investigates the many facets of the Jewish-American encounter—what Jews have borrowed from their surroundings, what they have resisted, what they have synthesized, and what they have subverted. Part I surveys how Jews first worked to reconcile Judaism with the country’s new democratic ethos and to reconcile their faith-based culture with local metropolitan cultures. Part II analyzes religio-cultural initiatives, many spearheaded by women, and the ongoing tensions between Jewish scholars (who pore over traditional Jewish sources) and activists (who are concerned with applying them). Part III appraises Jewish-Christian relations: “collisions” within the public square and over church-state separation.
Originally written over the span of forty years, many of these essays are considered classics in the field, and several remain fixtures of American Jewish history syllabi. Others appeared in fairly obscure venues and will be discovered here anew. Together, these essays—newly updated for this volume—cull the finest thinking of one of American Jewry’s finest historians.
- Print length430 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherJEWISH PUBLICATON SOCIETY
- Publication dateSeptember 1, 2021
- Dimensions6.25 x 1.5 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100827615116
- ISBN-13978-0827615113
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"This collection is worth having in all Judaica libraries."—Fred Isaac, Association of Jewish Libraries
"Fascinating. . . . The dualistic character of the Jewish experience in America is highlighted in fifteen carefully researched and and thoughtful chapters on American Jewish history, culture, and religion."—Reading Religion Published On: 2022-06-18
“A tour d’horizon of a remarkable historian’s storied career, this valuable collection of essays is as much a testament to the complexity and creativity of the American Jewish experience as it is a celebration of the scholarly imagination.”—Jenna Weissman Joselit, author of Set in Stone: America’s Embrace of the Ten Commandments
“For over four decades, Jonathan Sarna has enriched our understanding of the American Jewish experience. How fortunate we are to now have in one volume so many of Sarna’s groundbreaking articles! Replete with memorable anecdotes and brilliant insights, Coming to Terms with America is a trove of riches for all who care about American Jewish culture and American religion.”—Shuly Rubin Schwartz, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary
“The breadth and depth of Jonathan D. Sarna’s work on the American Jewish experience is electrifying. This collection of the author’s most outstanding historical essays is a page-turning exploration of the dynamics of Jewish life, shedding light on American Jewry’s ongoing effort to ‘straddle two civilizations.’ Readers will discover that even as America has transformed Judaism, so too have Jews contributed to the shaping of the American nation.”—Gary P. Zola, executive director of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
“Jonathan Sarna, the most erudite of historians of American Jewry, speaks of the past and of the present through this thought provoking and engaging volume.”—Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust History at Emory University
“As a doyen of American Jewish history, Sarna’s work has long helped define this field of study. This collection of his pathbreaking essays offers scholars and students of history alike a second look at his sterling contributions to illuminating the Jews’ and Judaism’s encounter with America’s free society.”—Jeffrey Gurock, Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University
“Bringing together a wealth of insights from Jonathan Sarna’s long scholarly engagement with American Jewish culture, Coming to Terms with America illuminates the evolution of the field of American Jewish history itself.”—Beth S. Wenger, associate dean for graduate studies and Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania
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- Publisher : JEWISH PUBLICATON SOCIETY (September 1, 2021)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 430 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0827615116
- ISBN-13 : 978-0827615113
- Item Weight : 1.76 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.25 x 1.5 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,573,573 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,644 in Jewish Social Studies
- #3,070 in History of Judaism
- #7,722 in Jewish History (Books)
About the author
Jonathan D. Sarna (1955- ) is the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History and Chair of the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program at Brandeis University, as well as Chief Historian of the new National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.
Dubbed by the Forward newspaper in 2004 as one of America’s fifty most influential American Jews, he was Chief Historian for the 350th commemoration of the American Jewish community, and is recognized as a leading commentator on American Jewish history, religion and life. He is the only American Jewish historian ever elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Born in Philadelphia, and raised in New York and Boston, Dr. Sarna attended Brandeis University, the Boston Hebrew College, Merkaz HaRav Kook in Jerusalem, and Yale University, where he obtained his doctorate.
He has taught and lectured on four continents, has appeared in half-a-dozen documentary films, and is regularly quoted in newspapers across the world.
Sarna is perhaps the field’s most prolific scholar. He has published hundreds of scholarly articles, writes a column in the Forward entitled “Now and Then” (because, he says, he produces it “now and then”) and has written, edited or coedited more than thirty books, including, most recently, When General Grant Expelled the Jews..
He is probably best known for his acclaimed American Judaism: A History, winner of the Jewish Book Council’s “Jewish Book of the Year Award.” It has been praised as being “the single best description of American Judaism during its 350 years on American soil.”
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