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1. Salo Baron's Legacy and the Shaping of Jewish Studies into the Twenty-First Century -- 2. Finding the Future in the Jewish Past: Salo Baron at Columbia -- 3. Emancipation: Salo Baron's Achievement -- 4. An Economic Historian Reads Salo Baron -- 5. Salo Baron on Antisemitism -- 6. The Professor in the Courtroom: Salo W. Baron at the Eichmann Trial -- 7. Building the Foundations of Scholarship at Home: Salo Baron and the Judaica collections at Columbia University Libraries -- 8. From Europe to Pittsburgh: Salo Baron and Yosef Yerushalmi Between the Lacrymose Theory and the Vertical Alliance -- 9. Salo Baron and his Innovative Reconstruction of the Jewish Past -- 10. The Human Side of Salo Baron: Reminiscences From His Dining Room Table Graduate Colloquium -- 11. Recollections From the Baron Daughters.

In 1930, Columbia University appointed Salo Baron to be the Nathan L. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Literature, and Institutions—marking a turning point in the history of Jewish studies in America. Baron not only became perhaps the most accomplished scholar of Jewish history in the twentieth century, the author of many books including the eighteen-volume A Social and Religious History of the Jews. He also created a program and a discipline, mentoring hundreds of scholars, establishing major institutions including the first academic center to study Israel in the United States, building Columbia's Judaica collection, intervening as a public intellectual, and exerting an unparalleled influence on what it meant to study the Jewish past.This book brings together leading scholars to consider how Baron transformed the course of Jewish studies in the United States. From a variety of perspectives, they reflect on his contributions to the study of Jewish history, literature, and culture, as well as his scholarship, activism, and mentorship. Among many distinguished contributors, David Sorkin engages with Baron's arguments on Jewish emancipation; Francesca Trivellato puts him in conversation with economic history; David Engel examines his use of anti-Semitism as an analytical category; Deborah Lipstadt explores his testimony at the trial of Adolf Eichmann; and Robert Chazan and Jane Gerber, both once Baron's doctoral students, offer personal and intellectual reminiscences. Together, they testify to Baron's singular legacy in shaping Jewish studies in America

At what moments and in what ways did Jews play a central role in American capitalism? This volume addresses this question head-on by exploring Jews' impact on American capitalism as both its architects - through their participation in specific industries - and as its most vocal critics through their support of unionism and radical political movements. Essays are contributed by a variety of scholars

The mass migration of East European Jews and their resettlement in cities throughout Europe, the United States, Argentina, the Middle East and Australia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries not only transformed the demographic and cultural centers of world Jewry, it also reshaped Jews' understanding and performance of their diasporic identities. Rebecca Kobrin's study of the dispersal of Jews from one city in Poland -- Bialystok -- demonstrates how the act of migration set in motion a wide range of transformations that led the migrants to imagine themselves as exiles not only from the mythic Land of Israel but most immediately from their east European homeland. Kobrin explores the organizations, institutions, newspapers, and philanthropies that the Bialystokers created around the world and that reshaped their perceptions of exile and diaspora.

Purchasing Power repositions economics in our understanding of the Jewish experience from early modern Rome to contemporary America and traces how economic circumstances have formed the context for, and even underpinned, Jewish intellectual, culture, and political development

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History -- Chapter 1 Licenses, Cartels, and Kehila: Jewish Moneylending and the Strug gle Against Restraint of Trade in Early Modern Rome -- Chapter 2. Contraband for the Catholic King: Jews of the French Pyrenees in the Tobacco Trade and Spanish State Finance -- Chapter 3. Daily Business or an Affair of Consequence? Credit, Reputation, and Bankruptcy Among Jewish Merchants in Eighteenth- Century Central Europe -- Chapter 4. Jewish Quarters: The Economics of Segregation in the Kingdom of Poland -- Chapter 5. From Moses to Moses: Jews, Clothing, and Colonial Commerce -- Chapter 6. Brokering a Rock 'n' Roll International: Jewish Record Men in America and Britain -- Chapter 7. The "West" and the Rest: Jewish Philanthropy and Globalization to c. 1880 -- Chapter 8. Rebels Without a Patron State: How Israel Financed the 1948 War -- Chapter 9. Orthodoxy Through Diamonds: Jewish Life in Antwerp after World War II -- Chapter 10. Faith Meets Politics and Resources: Reassessing Modern Transnational Jewish Activism -- Chapter 11. Anxieties of Distinctiveness: Walter Sombart's The Jews and Modern Capitalism and the Politics of Jewish Economic History -- Notes -- Index -- List of Contributors

At which moments and in which ways did Jews play a central role in the development of American capitalism? Many popular writers address the intersection of Jews and capitalism, but few scholars, perhaps fearing this question's anti-Semitic overtones, have pondered it openly. Chosen Capital represents the first historical collection devoted to this question in its analysis of the ways in which Jews in North America shaped and were shaped by America's particular system of capitalism. Jews fundamentally molded aspects of the economy during the century when American capital was being redefined by industrialization, war, migration, and the emergence of the United States as a superpower. Surveying such diverse topics as Jews' participation in the real estate industry, the liquor industry, and the scrap metal industry, as well as Jewish political groups and unions bent on reforming American capital, such as the American Labor Party and the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, contributors to this volume provide a new prism through which to view the Jewish encounter with America. The volume also lays bare how American capitalism reshaped Judaism itself by encouraging the mass manufacturing and distribution of foods like matzah and the transformation of synagogue cantors into recording stars. These essays force us to rethink not only the role Jews played in American economic development but also how capitalism has shaped Jewish life and Judaism over the course of the twentieth century. Contributors: Marni Davis, Georgia State University Phyllis Dillon, independent documentary producer, textile conservator, museum curator Andrew Dolkart, Columbia University Andrew Godley, Henley Business School, University of Reading Jonathan Karp, executive director, American Jewish Historical Society Daniel Katz, Empire State College, State University of New York Ira Katznelson, Columbia University David S. Koffman, New York University Eli Lederhendler, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Jonathan Z. S. Pollack, University of Wisconsin—Madison Jonathan D. Sarma, Brandeis University Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University Daniel Soyer, Fordham University

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Diner, Hasia R. / Kohn, Shira / Kranson, Rachel -- 1. "Some of Us Were There before Betty": Jewish Women and Political Activism in Postwar Miami / Mohl, Raymond A. -- 2. The Polishness of Lucy S. Dawidowicz's Postwar Jewish Cold War / Sinkoff, Nancy -- 3. "Our Defense against Despair": The Progressive Politics of the National Council of Jewish Women after World War II / Laughlin, Kathleen A. -- 4. "It's Good Americanism to Join Hadassah": Selling Hadassah in the Postwar Era / Boim Wolf, Rebecca -- 5. "A Lady Sometimes Blows the Shofar": Women's Religious Equality in the Postwar Reconstructionist Movement / Waxman, Deborah -- 6. Beyond the Myths of Mobility and Altruism: Jewish Immigrant Professionals and Jewish Social Welfare Agencies in New York City, 1948-1954 / Kobrin, Rebecca -- 7. Negotiating New Terrain: Egyptian Women at Home in America / Nasar, Audrey -- 8. The Bad Girls of Jewish Comedy: Gender, Class, Assimilation, and Whiteness in Postwar America / Del Negro, Giovanna P. -- 9. Judy Holliday's Urban Working-Girl Characters in 1950s Hollywood Film / Smith, Judith -- 10. The "Gentle Jewish Mother" Who Owned a Luxury Resort: The Public Image of Jennie Grossinger, 1954-1972 / Kranson, Rachel -- 11. Reading Marjorie Morningstar in the Age of the Feminine Mystique and After / Sicherman, Barbara -- 12. "We Were Ready to Turn the World Upside Down": Radical Feminism and Jewish Women / Antler, Joyce -- 13. Jewish Women Remaking American Feminism/ Women Remaking American Judaism: Reflections on the Life of Betty Friedan / Horowitz, Daniel -- Biographies of Contributors -- Index