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2001 Norfolk, VA
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The Southern Jewish Historical Society is pleased to
present its Annual Speaker for its 2002 Annual Conference
Keynote Speaker
Jonathan D. Sarna, Ph.D.
American Jewish History
Contemporary Jewish Life
Judaism in the Americas
JONATHAN D. SARNA, is the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of
American Jewish History. His field embraces all aspects of American Jewish
history, from the colonial period to the twentieth century, with special
emphasis on social, cultural and religious history. He also chairs the
Academic Advisory and Editorial Board of the Marcus Center of the American
Jewish Archives and the on-line Judaic Studies network, H-Judaic. Dr.
Sarna has written, edited or co-edited fifteen books, including The
American Jewish Experience: A Reader (1986, 1997); People Walk on Their
Heads (1981), a volume dealing with Jewish immigrant life in New York;
Jacksonian Jew (1981), a Biography of Mordecai Noah; JPS (1989), a
cultural history of the Jewish Publication Society; Religion and State in
the American Jewish Experience (1997), with David Dalin, and, with Ellen
Smith, The Jews of Boston (1995). He is currently writing a new history of
American Judaism.
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