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Book SynopsisOver 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 ContentsForeword by Jonathan D. Sarna
Acknowledgments
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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
