"Against the Grain" is a collection of challenging and
insightful essays from a reflective historian. Jerold Auerbach,
Professor Emeritus at Wellesley College (where he taught for 40
years), writes in the Foreword how his academic career and his time
in Israel "each in its own distinctive way converged to liberate me
from my past as a non-Jewish Jew." He adds:
"Regardless of the subject-law, modern American history, Pueblo
Indians, American Judaism, Israel-deference to the conventional
wisdom never had been my style. I always enjoyed the stimulation of
writing against the grain: discovering hidden meanings, challenging
historical and political pieties, and exposing the self-serving
ideology that often lurked beneath self-evident truths. Providing
intellectual catnip, it also enabled me to reach readers far beyond
the narrow confines of academic journals.
"My creative work always was done in the solitude of my study,
my sanctum within my home. Enclosed within the treasured artifacts,
maps, photographs, prints, and books accumulated during decades of
research and travel, I explored the historical past that both
inspired and reflected my own intellectual trajectory. Virtually
every book I have written, to my genuine surprise, contained within
it the seed of its successor. That, of course, is discernible only
with hindsight-which, after all, is the distinctive attribute of a
historian. I invite my family, friends, and interested readers to
accompany me to some favorite destinations during my journey."
A new book in Quid Pro's "Journeys & Memoirs" Series,
"Against the Grain" presents this distinctive hindsight in essays
and excerpts targeted to a general audience interested in such
issues, in addition to historians and college students. Many of the
essays were first published in non-academic periodicals and are
accessible to this broader audience, though they are nonetheless
supported with the prodigious research, evocative prose, and candor
of a widely published writer.
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