Chapter Nine Salo Baron and His Innovative Reconstruction of the Jewish Past

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. INTRODUCTION Salo Baron, Columbia University, and the Expansion of Jewish Studies in Twentieth-Century America 1
4. Contributor 1
5. Chapter One Salo Baron’s Legacy and the Shaping of Jewish Studies Into the Twenty-First Century 25
6. Chapter Two Organizing the Jewish Past for American Students: Salo Baron at Columbia 37
7. Chapter Three Emancipation: Salo Baron’s Achievement 81
8. Chapter Four An Economic Historian Reads Salo Baron 97
9. Chapter Five Salo Baron on Anti-Semitism 115
10. Chapter Six The Professor in the Courtroom: Salo W. Baron at the Eichmann Trial 132
11. Chapter Seven Building the Foundations of Scholarship at Home: Salo Baron and the Judaica Collections at Columbia University Libraries 153
12. Chapter Eight From Europe to Pittsburgh: Salo W. Baron and Yosef H. Yerushalmi Between the Lachrymose Theory and the End of the Vertical Alliance 174
13. Chapter Nine Salo Baron and His Innovative Reconstruction of the Jewish Past 192
14. Chapter Ten Remembering Professor Salo Baron: Personal Recollections of a Former Student 207
15. Chapter Eleven Recollections from the Baron Daughters 219
16. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF PROFESSOR SALO WITTMAYER BARON (1895–1989) 225
17. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 255
18. CONTRIBUTORS 259
19. INDEX 263