Essays on Jewish Life and Thought

Presented in Honor of Salo Wittmayer Baron

Joseph L. Blau, Arthur Hertzberg, Philip Friedman, Isaac Mendelsohn, Joseph L. Blau, Arthur Hertzberg, Philip Friedman, Isaac Mendelsohn

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9780231910361
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780231881739
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Jewish History
• Index: History

A collection of essays in honor of Salo Wittmayer Baron, on various topics relating to the history of Jewish life and thought. Topics include the dawn of history, correspondence of Tobias Ben Moses of Constantinople, the clockmakers' strike of 1910, the Jewish communal crisis during the Nazi regime in Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia, Jewish immigrants in London in the 1880s, and others.

Table of contents

• EDITORS' PREFACE
• THE HISTORIC QUEST
• CONTENTS
• BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF SALO WITTMAYER BARON
• THE CORRESPONDENCE OF TOBIAS BEN MOSES THE KARAITE OF CONSTANTINOPLE
• TOWARD THE DAWN OF HISTORY
• THE MESSIANIC SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS OF ABRAHAM ABULAFIA: A TENTATIVE EVALUATION
• THE CLOAKMAKERS' STRIKE OF 1910
• TRADITION AND INNOVATION
• FELIX LIBERTATÉ AND THE EMANCIPATION OF DUTCH JEWRY
• AMERICAN JEWRY—REFLECTIONS ON SOCIAL, COMMUNAL, AND SPIRITUAL TRENDS
• MORALITY AND RELIGION IN THE THEOLOGY OF MAIMONIDES
• AN AMERICAN JEW AT THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE OF 1919: EXCERPTS FROM THE DIARY OF OSCAR S. STRAUS
• THE LAFAYETTE COMMITTEE FOR JEWISH EMANCIPATION
• THE BACKGROUND OF THE BERLIN HASKALAH
• ASPECTS OF THE JEWISH COMMUNAL CRISIS IN THE PERIOD OF THE NAZI REGIME IN GERMANY AUSTRIA AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA
• JEWISH IMMIGRANTS IN LONDON IN THE 1880's
• DOES THE JEWISH PAST HAVE A FUTURE?
• AN AMERICAN ANTI-SEMITE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
• FLIGHT FROM THE SLUMS
• WELLHAUSEN'S INTERPRETATION OF ISRAEL'S RELIGIOUS HISTORY: A REAPPRAISAL OF HIS RULING IDEAS
• THE JEWISH ASSOCIATION IN AMERICA
• ON MARRIAGE IN ALALAKH
• DOCTOR SAMUEL JOHNSON'S GRAMMAR AND HEBREW PSALTER
• TYPES OF LECTURES IN THE BABYLONIAN ACADEMIES
• A FUNCTIONAL APPROACH TO THE HALACHAH
• SOME ATTITUDES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY REFORM LAYMEN
• ON THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF YIDDISH RIME
• "IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE!" AN EPISODE IN THE FAILURE TO ACHIEVE TERRITORIAL UNIFICATION OF FRANCONIAN JEWRY IN THE MID-FIFTEENTH CENTURY