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 and
formerly served as the chair of its history department), 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." Furthermore: "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, journalists, 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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