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Summary

In this insightful book, an eclectic and distinguished group of writers explore the Jewish experience in the Americas and celebrate the legacy of Salo Wittmayer Baron (18951989), a preeminent scholar who revolutionized the study of Jewish history during his lengthy tenure at Columbia University. Baron's important ideas are reflected throughout these texts, which concern strategies for the continuous identity of a dispersed people. Featured essays discuss the meaning and significance of colonial portraits of American Jews; the history of an extraordinary group of Jews in the remote Amazon; the charitable fairs organized by Jewish women to raise money for various causes in nineteenth-century America; the place of Jews in postmodern American culture; the "Jewish unconscious" of the art critic Meyer Schapiro; and Salo Baron's influence as a historian and teacher. A group of poems by Robert Pinsky accompanies the essays. Together these writings form a dynamic interplay of ideas that encourages readers to think deeply about Jewish history and identity.

Author Biography

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She is the author of Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage and coauthor of Getting Comfortable in New York: The American Jewish Home, 1880–1950.

Table of Contents

Poems
Robert Pinsky
Foreword ix
Joan Rosenbaum
Introduction 1(9)
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Salo W. Baron and the Writing of Modern Jewish History: Speculations in Honor of His Centennial
10(17)
Arthur Hertzberg
``Facing the New World'': What Portraits of Early American Jews Reveal and What They Obscure
27(9)
Jonathan D. Sarna
The Moral Sublime: Jewish Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century America
36(21)
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Jews of the Amazon: Voices from the Earthly Paradise
57(15)
Ariel Segal
Meyer Schapiro's Jewish Unconscious
72(19)
Donald Kuspit
The Myth of Europe in America's Judaism
91(16)
Susannah Heschel
Notes 107(10)
List of Contributors 117(2)
Index 119(10)
The Jewish Museum Board of Trustees 129

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