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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Contributions to Conversations -- Introduction: A Community of Scholars Who Grew a Field / Gurock, Jeffrey S. -- Finding My Way: Uniting American Jewish Women’s History and U.S. Women’s History / Antler, Joyce -- Reconstructing American Jewish Historical Studies / Ashton, Dianne -- A Meandering and Surprising Career / Bauman, Mark K. -- How I Became an American Jewish Historian and What That Meant for My Professional Life / Diner, Hasia -- A Scholar-Athlete’s Discovery of American Jewish History / Gurock, Jeffrey S. -- Object Lessons / Weissman Joselit, Jenna -- How I Learned to Call America “the States” and Became an American Jewish Historian / Lederhendler, Eli -- Sidewalk Histories, or Uncovering the Venacular Jewishness of New York City / Dash Moore, Deborah -- Becoming an “All-of-a-Kind” Jewish Historian / Nadell, Pamela S. -- Joining Historians as an Anthropologist at the Table of American Jewish Culture / Prell, Riv–Ellen -- My Life in American Jewish History / Sarna, Jonathan D. -- From Kremenets to New York: My Personal Journey as a Historian / Schwartz, Shuly Rubin -- Finding My Place in “the Great Tradition” / Sorin, Gerald -- Peripatetic Journeys / Wenger, Beth S. -- The Past from the Periphery / Whitfield, Stephen J. -- On Rabbis, Doctors, & the American Jewish Experience / Zola, Gary Phillip -- Index
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 in 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