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Widely regarded as today's foremost American Jewish historian, Jonathan D. Sarna had a huge impact on the academy. Sarna's influence is perhaps nowhere more apparent than among his former doctoral students-a veritable "Sarna diaspora" of over three dozen active scholars around the world. Both a tribute to Sarna and an important collection in its own right, New Perspectives in American Jewish History was compiled by Sarna's former students and presents previously unpublished, neglected, or rarely seen historical documents and images that illuminate the breadth, diversity, and dynamism of the American Jewish experience. Beginning with the earliest known Jewish divorce in circum-Atlantic history (1774) and concluding with a Black Lives Matter Haggadah supplement (2019), the collection travels across time and space to shed light on intriguing and generative moments that span the varieties of Jewish experience in the American setting from the colonial era to the present. The materials underscore the interrelationship of myriad themes including ritual observance, Jewish-Christian relations, civil rights, Zionism and Israel, and immigration. While not intended as a comprehensive treatment of American Jewish history, the collection offers a chronological road map of American Jewry's evolving self-understanding and encounter with America over the course of four centuries. A brief prefatory note sets up the analytic context of each document and helps to unpack and explore its significance. The capacious and multifaceted quality of the American Jewish experience is further amplified here by a sampling of artistic texts such as photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and more.
Presenting the American Jewish historical experience from its
communal beginnings to the present through documents, photographs,
and other illustrations, many of which have never before been
published, this entirely new collection of source materials
complements existing textbooks on American Jewish history with an
organization and pedagogy that reflect the latest historiographical
trends and the most creative teaching approaches.
Over the course of American history, Jews have held many
American leaders in high esteem, but they maintain a unique
emotional bond with Abraham Lincoln. From the time of his
presidency to the present day, American Jews have persistently
viewed Lincoln as one of their own, casting him as a Jewish
sojourner and, in certain respects, a Jewish role model. This
pioneering compendium-- The first volume of annotated documents to
focus on the history of Lincoln's image, influence, and reputation
among American Jews-- considers how Lincoln acquired his
exceptional status and how, over the past century and a half, this
fascinating relationship has evolved. Organized into twelve chronological and thematic chapters, these
little-known primary source documents--many never before published
and some translated into English for the first time--consist of
newspaper clippings, journal articles, letters, poems, and sermons,
and provide insight into a wide variety of issues relating to
Lincoln's Jewish connection. Topics include Lincoln's early
encounters with Central European Jewish immigrants living in the
Old Northwest; Lincoln's Jewish political allies; his encounters
with Jews and the Jewish community as President; Lincoln's response
to the Jewish chaplain controversy; General U. S. Grant's General
Orders No. 11 expelling "Jews, as a class" from the Military
Department of Tennessee; the question of amending the U.S.
Constitution to legislate the country's so-called Christian
national character; and Jewish eulogies after Lincoln's
assassination. Other chapters consider the crisis of conscience
that arose when President Andrew Johnson proclaimed a national day
of mourning for Lincoln on the festival of "Shavuot "(the Feast of
Weeks), a day when Jewish law enjoins Jews to rejoice and not to
mourn; Lincoln's Jewish detractors contrasted to his boosters; how
American Jews have intentionally "Judaized" Lincoln ever since his
death; the leading role that American Jews have played in in
crafting Lincoln's image and in preserving his memory for the
American nation; American Jewish reflections on the question "What
Would Lincoln Do?"; and how Lincoln, for America's Jewish
citizenry, became the avatar of America's highest moral
aspirations. With thoughtful chapter introductions that provide readers with a context for the annotated documents that follow, this volume provides a fascinating chronicle of American Jewry's unfolding historical encounter with the life and symbolic image of Abraham Lincoln, shedding light on how the cultural interchange between American ideals and Jewish traditions influences the dynamics of the American Jewish experience.
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