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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Trade ReviewA 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 HistoryThis 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 CEThe 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
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
