2 Presidents, Presidential Appointments, and Jews

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VI
3. Foreword IX
4. Acknowledgments XI
5. Introduction XIII
6. Part One. Presidents, Presidential Appointments, and American Jews
7. 1 The Founding Fathers and American Jews* 2
8. 2 Presidents, Presidential Appointments, and Jews 22
9. 3 The Appointment of Louis D. Brandeis, First Jewish Justice on the Supreme Court 46
10. Part Two German-Jewish Notables and American Jewish Public Life
11. 4 Mayer Sulzberger and American Jewish Public Life 66
12. 5 Patron par Excellence— Mayer Sulzberger and the Early Seminary 79
13. 6 Louis Marshall, the Jewish Vote, and the Republican Party 97
14. 7 The Legacy of Julius Rosenwald 128
15. 8 Cyrus Adler, Non-Zionism, and the Zionist Movement: A Study in Contradictions 134
16. 9 Cyrus Adler and the Rescue of Jewish Refugee Scholars 166
17. Part Three. Church-State Relations and American Jews
18. 10 How High the Wall? American Jews and the Church-State Debate 180
19. Part Four Jews and Civil Liberties
20. 11 Jews, Nazis, and Civil Liberties 204
21. Part Five. Jews and City Politics
22. 12 Jewish Republicanism and City Politics: The San Francisco Experience, 1911–1963 232
23. Part Six. Jewish Intellectuals and Jewish Public
24. 13 From Marxism to Judaism: Will Herberg in Retrospect 252
25. 14 The Jewish Historiography of Hannah Arendt 262
26. Part Seven. Jews, Baseball, and American Public Life
27. 15 Hank Greenberg at 100: Remembering Baseball’s Greatest Jewish Superstar 278
28. 16 A Brief, Brilliant Career: Why We Can’t Forget Sandy Koufax 284
29. Index 288