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Jewish learning in American universities : the first century / Paul Ritterband and Harold S. Wechsler.
- Title
- Jewish learning in American universities : the first century / Paul Ritterband and Harold S. Wechsler.
- Author
- Ritterband, Paul.
- Publication
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1994.
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- Additional Authors
- Wechsler, Harold S., 1946-2017
- Description
- xviii, 346 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Jewish Learning in American Universities examines the evolution of Jewish studies as an academic discipline within the history and sociology of higher education in America from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Whereas in Europe Jewish learning had traditionally been the province of religious schools, American Jews, seeking acceptance and recognition, came to view American universities as vehicles for educational, cultural, and social advancement. Reciprocating Jewish communal interest in introducing Jewish studies as an academic field into American higher education, six leading American universities - California, Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Pennsylvania - took the lead in instituting Judaica appointments in the late nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET. "Drawing from university and private archives, Paul Ritterband and Harold S. Wechsler offer a fascinating account of the circumstances behind the early appointments in Judaic studies, the tensions between university administrations and community sources of support, the strong and conflicting personalities often involved, and the changing rationales for Jewish learning as Jewish studies programs burgeoned on American campuses in the second half of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Modern Jewish experience
- Uniform Title
- Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- I. European Background and the American Setting -- II. Reforming the Universities: Presidents, Providers, and Philology -- III. Scholars: Communal and Academic Norms -- IV. The Price of Admission -- V. The Quest for Recognition at Harvard -- VI. From Universalism to Pluralism -- VII. "The Most Available and Suitable Man": Columbia's Miller Chair and Salo Baron -- VIII. Tragedy, Triumph, and Jewish Scholarship: Post-War Curricular Developments -- IX. Growth and Survival.
- ISBN
- 0253350395
- LCCN
- ^^^93048233^
- OCLC
- 29634386
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library