Jews and American Public Life

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David G. Dalin, a historian and rabbi, is Senior Research Fellow at Brandeis University. He is the author, co-author, or editor of twelve books, most recently Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court, which was selected as a finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award.

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Over forty years, David G. Dalin has written extensively on the role of American Jews in politics and public life. Here gathered together for the first time are sixteen of those articles about American Jews who have left their mark on politics, government, philanthropy, intellectual life and even sports.

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Foreword by Jonathan D. Sarna

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

Part One
Presidents, Presidential Appointments and Americäs Jews

1. The Founding Fathers and American Jews
2. Presidents, Presidential Appointments, and Jews
3. The Appointment of Louis D. Brandeis, First Jewish Justice on the Supreme Court

Part Two
German-Jewish Notables and American Jewish Public Life

4. Mayer Sulzberger and American Jewish Public Life
5. Patron par Excellence Mayer Sulzberger and the Early Seminary
6. Louis Marshall, the Jewish Vote, and the Republican Party
7. The Legacy of Julius Rosenwald
8. Cyrus Adler, Non-Zionism, and the Zionist Movement: A Study in Contradictions
9. Cyrus Adler and the Rescue of Jewish Refugee Scholars

Part Three
Church-State Relations and Americäs Jews

10. American Jews and the Church-State Debate

Part Four
Jews and Civil Liberties

11. Jews, Nazis, and Civil Liberties

Part Five
Jews and City Politics

12. Jewish Republicanism and City Politics: The San Francisco Experience, 1911 1963

Part Six
Jewish Intellectuals and Jewish Public Life

13. From Marxism to Judaism: Will Herberg in Retrospect
14. The Jewish Historiography of Hannah Arendt

Part Seven
Jews, Baseball, and American Public Life

15. Hank Greenberg at 100: Remembering Baseball s Greatest Jewish Superstar
16. A Brief, Brilliant Career: Why We Can t Forget Sandy Koufax Index