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Jews and American Public Life

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Over forty years, David G. Dalin has written extensively on the role of American Jews in politics and public life. Here gathered together for the first time are sixteen of those articles about Amer...
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  • 24 May 2022
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Over 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.

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Price: $139.00
Pages: 320
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Series: North American Jewish Studies
Publication Date: 24 May 2022
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9781644698815
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: History of the Americas, Social and cultural history, Religion and politics, Judaism, Baseball
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David G. Dalin, a historian and rabbi, is Senior Research Fellow at Brandeis University. He is the author, co-author, or editor of twelve books, most recently Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court, which was selected as a finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award.

Foreword 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