Conversations with colleagues : on becoming an American Jewish historian /

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Imprint:Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2018.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:North American Jewish Studies
North American Jewish studies.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12294765
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Other authors / contributors:Gurock, Jeffrey S., 1949- editor.
ISBN:9781618118578
1618118579
1618118560
9781618118561
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:Sixteen senior scholars of American Jewish history - among the men and women whose work and advocacy have moved their discipline into the mainstream of academia - converse on the intellectual and personal roads they have traveled in becoming leaders in their areas of expertise. Through their thoughtful and candid recollections of the challenges they faced becoming accepted academics, they retell the story of how the study of the Jews and Judaism in the United States rose from being long dismissed as an amateurish enterprise not worthy of serious consideration in the world of ideas to its position today as a respected field in communication with all humanities scholars. They also imagine and chart the direction the writing on American Jews will take in the coming era.
Other form:Print version: 1618118560 9781618118561