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Straddling Worlds - The Jewish-American Journey of Professor Richard W. Leopold (Paperback)
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Straddling Worlds - The Jewish-American Journey of Professor Richard W. Leopold (Paperback)
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Author Steven J. Harper pays tribute to a well-respected teacher
with this biography of a distinguished William Smith Mason
Professor of History at Northwestern University, Richard W.
Leopold. Harper had maintained contact with his former professor,
as had hundreds of other alumni, meeting with him in the apartment
to which his age and health confined him. When Leopold invited him
to review his biographical materials to prepare a New York Times
obituary, Harper began to catch glimpses of a deeper history in
Leopold's life: that of Jews in America after the turn of the
century. Across two years of Sundays, Leopold's life came together
and Harper began to notice parallels between the life of his
professor and the life of his recently deceased father-in-law. Both
grew up in less orthodox households but were still identified as
Jewish by others; both attended Ivy League colleges, fighting (and
beating) anti-Semitism there; and both served their country with
distinction in World War II. The two men persevered through a
twentieth century Jewish-American experience that they and many
others shared, but rarely discussed. Steven Harper has caught them
both on the page just in time to document their lives, their
culture, and the nation that grew and changed alongside them.
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