2002 Southern Jewish Historical Society Conference


ANNOUNCEMENT

27th Annual Meeting

SOUTHERN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY CONFERENCE

will be held in 

Shreveport, Louisiana on October 25, 26, 27, 2002

 

The Southern Jewish Historical Society is pleased to present its Annual Speaker for its 2002 Annual Conference

Jonathan D. Sarna, Ph.D.
American Jewish History
Contemporary Jewish Life
Judaism in the Americas

Jonathan Sarna


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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America : The Jewish Experience

Jps : The Americanization of Jewish Culture, 1888-1988

The Jews of Boston : Essays on the Occasion of the Centenary (1895-1995 of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston)

Jews and the Founding of the Republic  

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Hardback: Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience : A Documentary History
Paperback: Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience : A Documentary History 

 

 

The American Jewish Experience  

 

 

Abba Hillel Silver and American Zionism  

 

 

 

A Double Bond

 

 

Jacksonian Jew : The Two Worlds of Mordecai Noah

American Synagogue History : A Bibliography and State-Of-The-Field Survey

Observing America's Jews (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)

Women and American Judaism : Historical Perspectives (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)

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