The Future of American Jewish Pasts - (Jewish Culture and Contexts) by Lila Corwin Berman & Deborah Dash Moore & Beth Wenger (Hardcover)
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- Leading scholars of American Jewish experience offer bold historical interpretations that reimagine American Jewish studies The Future of American Jewish Pasts boldly imagines the next chapters in the study of American Jewish life.
- About the Author: Lila Corwin Berman is Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, New York University.
- 264 Pages
- Social Science, Jewish Studies
- Series Name: Jewish Culture and Contexts
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Leading scholars of American Jewish experience offer bold historical interpretations that reimagine American Jewish studies
The Future of American Jewish Pasts boldly imagines the next chapters in the study of American Jewish life. Conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic and completed just before the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and ensuing war, this innovative volume gathers leading scholars of American Jewish experience to ask what the future of the study of the American Jewish past holds. The contributors reconceive traditional approaches to American Jewish life and delve into underexplored topics to present a vision of a rich future for the field of American Jewish studies. Essays on antisemitism, Zionism, liberalism, immigration, feminism, family histories, and more stake out new sources, methods, and interpretations of histories and historiographies. To understand American Jewish life in its complexity and richness, these essays engage multiple disciplines, including history, ethnography, and literary studies. Many showcase comparative or theoretical approaches that illuminate new dimensions of American Jewish studies, and others offer personal reflections to reveal how scholars' own life stories intersect with the questions that animate their scholarship. For students, scholars, and the general public, this interdisciplinary volume provides a tantalizing selection of the freshest approaches to understanding American Jewish life. Contributors: Lila Corwin Berman, Tobias Brinkmann, Ayelet Brinn, Alanna E. Cooper, Jessica Cooperman, Deborah Dash Moore, Hasia R. Diner, Kathryn Hellerstein, Markus Krah, Heather S. Nathans, Noam Pianko, Lana Dee Povitz, Riv-Ellen Prell, Kate Rosenblatt, Laurence Roth, Britt Tevis, JT Waldman, Amy Weiss, Beth S. Wenger.Review Quotes
"This critical text provides bold new frameworks, methodologies, and interpretations that challenge the narrative of American Jewish 'synthesis' and draw our attention to the collisions and contradictions of the American Jewish past."-- "Eric L. Goldstein, Emory University"
About the Author
Lila Corwin Berman is Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, New York University.
Deborah Dash Moore is Jonathan Freedman Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan. Beth S. Wenger is Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of History and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, University of Pennsylvania.Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W)
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 264
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Jewish Studies
Series Title: Jewish Culture and Contexts
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Format: Hardcover
Author: Lila Corwin Berman & Deborah Dash Moore & Beth Wenger
Language: English
Street Date: November 11, 2025
TCIN: 1002216880
UPC: 9781512828245
Item Number (DPCI): 247-33-0440
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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