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Jonathan D. Sarna (born 10 January 1955) is the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History in the department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies[1] and director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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Jonathan D. Sarna (born 10 January 1955) is the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History in the department of Near Eastern and...
Transformation and Renewal, Columbia University Press, 2013, pp. 119–121. JonathanSarna, Contemporary Reform Judaism: A Historical Perspective, in: Rosenak...
hosted lectures from Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, James Wolfensohn, Professor JonathanSarna and Professor Zygmunt Bauman. The institute was founded in New York...
of Jewish holidays like Hannakuh and Purim, according to historian JonathanSarna, helped save the holiday from obscurity and was part of the creation...
still active, making it the movement's main surviving line. Historian JonathanSarna has characterized Chabad as having enjoyed the fastest rate of growth...
Borscht Belt, and "too much was not enough" developed as a notion. JonathanSarna wrote: "To understand the emphasis on food, one has to understand hunger...
2017) p. 166. Jonathan D. Sarna, "Anti-Semitism and American History." Commentary (March 1981) 71#3 pp 42-47 at p. 44. online Jonathan D. Sarna, When General...
2014. Larry Ruttman, Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society JonathanSarna Elected Massachusetts Historical Society Fellow, Brandeis NOW, retrieved...
for its staff to research and write reports. According to historian JonathanSarna, AJC's library was for the Jewish community what the Library of Congress...
of Bible Translations, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1917. JonathanSarna, "The Jewish Translation That Rewrote the Bible", The Forward, January...
from experts on Jewish communal life. According to historians JonathanSarna and Jonathan J. Golden, the AJYR is "Annual Record of American Jewish Civilization"...
Schachter-Shalomi, Jim Sleeper, Michael Strassfeld, and Arthur Waskow. Historian JonathanSarna noted that among these members were "the people who would be leading...
President Bill Clinton JonathanSarna: Historian of American Judaism Nahum Sarna: Biblical scholar, father of JonathanSarna Morrie Schwartz: Sociologist;...
Jewish communities within the cities (for examples see below). However, JonathanSarna argues that those two precedents, as well as the desire of many Jewish...
the Civil War: A Reader (eds. Jonathan D. Sarna & Adam Mendelsohn), NYU Press: 2010, p. 240. Baron, p. 224 Jonathan D. Sarna, American Judaism: A History...
family-owned New York Herald Tribune Alexandra Robbins (B.A. 1998), author JonathanSarna (Ph.D. 1979), historian and author Sam Savage (B.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1979)...
controversy in the Jewish world, including responses from Daniel Gordis, and JonathanSarna, and prefigured the estrangement of progressive American Jews from the...
collection of essays by such notable Jewish studies scholars as Hasia Diner, JonathanSarna, and Paula Hyman. In 2011, her book Gender & Jewish History (Indiana...
journalism and banking. Kaunfer authored a book (with a preface by JonathanSarna) on the rise of independent Jewish congregations and their contribution...