{"product_id":"coming-to-terms-with-america-essays-on-jewish-history-religion-and-culture-hardback-9780827615113","title":"Coming to Terms with America; Essays on Jewish History, Religion, and Culture (Hardback) 9780827615113","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eComing to Terms with America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays on Jewish History, Religion, and Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJonathan D. Sarna (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780827615113\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 September 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e430 pages, 7 photographs, 1 table, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.83 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"As with all his work, Sarna, in these essays, displays both a wide topical breadth and an extraordinary analytical depth. His mastery of Hebrew language and the classical sources of Jewish tradition, his complete control of every era of Jewish history, his skill and training as an American historian, and his attention to theory make these articles unparalleled in originality, richness, and insights. His reach and influence in the academic and larger worlds are exceptional, and this book will only enhance and extend that reach and influence. . . . Readers will be immeasurably enriched by its contents.\"-David Ellenson, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Jewish Archives Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"This collection is worth having in all Judaica libraries.\"-Fred Isaac, \u003ci\u003eAssociation of Jewish Libraries\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Fascinating. . . . The dualistic character of the Jewish experience in America is highlighted in fifteen carefully researched and and thoughtful chapters on American Jewish history, culture, and religion.\"-\u003ci\u003eReading Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“A \u003ci\u003etour d’horizon\u003c\/i\u003e of a remarkable historian’s storied career, this valuable collection of essays is as much a testament to the complexity and creativity of the American Jewish experience as it is a celebration of the scholarly imagination.”-Jenna Weissman Joselit, author of \u003ci\u003eSet in Stone: America’s Embrace of the Ten Commandments\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“For over four decades, Jonathan Sarna has enriched our understanding of the American Jewish experience. How fortunate we are to now have in one volume so many of Sarna’s groundbreaking articles! Replete with memorable anecdotes and brilliant insights, \u003ci\u003eComing to Terms with America\u003c\/i\u003e is a trove of riches for all who care about American Jewish culture and American religion.”-Shuly Rubin Schwartz, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“The breadth and depth of Jonathan D. Sarna’s work on the American Jewish experience is electrifying. This collection of the author’s most outstanding historical essays is a page-turning exploration of the dynamics of Jewish life, shedding light on American Jewry’s ongoing effort to ‘straddle two civilizations.’ Readers will discover that even as America has transformed Judaism, so too have Jews contributed to the shaping of the American nation.”-Gary P. Zola, executive director of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Jonathan Sarna, the most erudite of historians of American Jewry, speaks of the past and of the present through this thought provoking and engaging volume.”-Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust History at Emory University\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“As a doyen of American Jewish history, Sarna’s work has long helped define this field of study. This collection of his pathbreaking essays offers scholars and students of history alike a second look at his sterling contributions to illuminating the Jews’ and Judaism’s encounter with America’s free society.”-Jeffrey Gurock, Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Bringing together a wealth of insights from Jonathan Sarna’s long scholarly engagement with American Jewish culture, \u003ci\u003eComing to Terms with America\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the evolution of the field of American Jewish history itself.”-Beth S. Wenger, associate dean for graduate studies and Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eComing to Terms with America\u003c\/i\u003e examines how Jews have long “straddled two civilizations,” endeavoring to be both Jewish and American at once, from the American Revolution to today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In fifteen engaging essays, Jonathan D. Sarna investigates the many facets of the Jewish-American encounter-what Jews have borrowed from their surroundings, what they have resisted, what they have synthesized, and what they have subverted. Part I surveys how Jews first worked to reconcile Judaism with the country’s new democratic ethos and to reconcile their faith-based culture with local metropolitan cultures. Part II analyzes religio-cultural initiatives, many spearheaded by women, and the ongoing tensions between Jewish scholars (who pore over traditional Jewish sources) and activists (who are concerned with applying them). Part III appraises Jewish-Christian relations: “collisions” within the public square and over church-state separation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Originally written over the span of forty years, many of these essays are considered classics in the field, and several remain fixtures of American Jewish history syllabi. Others appeared in fairly obscure venues and will be discovered here anew. Together, these essays-newly updated for this volume-cull the finest thinking of one of American Jewry’s finest historians.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes about the Cover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart 1. Straddling Two Civilizations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. The Cult of Synthesis in American Jewish Culture\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. The Democratization of American Judaism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Jewish Prayers for the United States Government\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. The Lofty Vision of Cincinnati Jews\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Reconciling Athens and Jerusalem: The Jews of Boston in Historical Perspective\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Subversive Jews and Early American Culture\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart 2. The Shaping of American Jewish Culture\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. The Late Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Awakening\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. Jewish Publishing in the United States\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. Timeless Texts or Timely Issues? Competing Visions of Seminary Scholarship\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart 3. When Faiths Collide\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10. The American Jewish Response to Nineteenth-Century Christian Missions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11. The “Mythical Jew” and the “Jew Next Door” in Nineteenth-Century America\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12. Cultural Borrowing and Cultural Resistance in Two Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Sunday School Texts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13. Jewish-Christian Hostility in the United States\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14. 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