Yearning to breathe free : Jews in gilded age America : essays by twenty contributing scholars / edited by Adam D Mendelsohn and Jonathan D. Sarna; with a foreword by sponsor Leonard L. Milberg.

Format Book
PublicationPrinceton, New Jersey : Princeton University Library, 2022.
DistributionPrinceton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press
Descriptionxxx, 715 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
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Other author/creatorMilberg, Leonard L., writer of foreword.
Other author/creatorMendelsohn, Adam D., 1979- editor.
Other author/creatorSarna, Jonathan D., editor.
Other author/creatorArgetsinger, Mark, book designer.
Other author/creatorPrinceton University. Library, publisher.
Other author/creatorPrinceton University Press, distributor.
Other author/creatorPuritan Capital (Printing firm), printer.
Summary The thematic essays in Yearning to Breathe Free each use a primary source--a book, newspaper, tract, or artwork--as an entry point into the era and as a means to introduce key themes, figures, and developments within the Gilded Age, across topics ranging from art, music, and literature down to politics, medicine, and religion. The essays highlight patterns and trends that in some cases anticipated what came later, and in others demonstrate how developments in the Gilded Age shaped Jewish life in the twentieth century. Collectively, they reveal the variety of ways in which the Gilded Age was a critical period in American Jewish history.
General noteContributors: Samantha Baskind (Cleveland State University), Judah M. Cohen (Indiana University), David G. Dalin (Brandeis University), Noah Efron (Bar-Ilan University), Zev Eleff (Gratz College), Lori Harrison-Kahan (Boston College), Melissa R. Klapper (Rowan University), Michael P. Kramer (Bar-Ilan University), Alan M. Kraut (American University), Eli Lederhendler (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Adam D. Mendelsohn (University of Cape Town), Pamela S. Nadell (American University), Heather S. Nathans (Tufts University), Shari Rabin (Oberlin College), Jonathan D. Sarna (Brandeis University), M. M. Silver (Max Stern Yezreel Valley College), Daniel Soyer (Fordham University), Benjamin Steiner (Trinity College), Beth S. Wenger (University of Pennsylvania), Shira Wolosky (Hebrew University).Samantha Baskind (Cleveland State University), Judah M. Cohen (Indiana University), David G. Dalin (Brandeis University), Noah Efron (Bar-Ilan University), Zev Eleff (Gratz College), Lori Harrison-Kahan (Boston College), Melissa R. Klapper (Rowan University), Michael P. Kramer (Bar-Ilan University), Alan M. Kraut (American University), Eli Lederhendler (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Adam D. Mendelsohn (University of Cape Town), Pamela S. Nadell (American University), Heather S. Nathans (Tufts University), Shari Rabin (Oberlin College), Jonathan D. Sarna (Brandeis University), M. M. Silver (Max Stern Yezreel Valley College), Daniel Soyer (Fordham University), Benjamin Steiner (Trinity College), Beth S. Wenger (University of Pennsylvania), Shira Wolosky (Hebrew University).
General noteSoftcover standard edition. Princeton copy 1
General noteHardcover deluxe edition. Princeton copy 2
Bibliography noteIncludes index, pp. 685-715.
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