Jews in the American academy, 1900-1940 : the dynamics of intellectual assimilation /

Discusses the process of admission of Jewish academics into American universities. Focuses on the generation born in the 1880s (e.g. Leo Wiener, Harry A. Wolfson, Horace M. Kallen), and on Lionel M. Trilling (born in 1905). Examines their slow progress via professorships in philology, philosophy and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Klingenstein, Susanne, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1991.
Temas:
Jews > United States > Biography.
Jewish college teachers > United States > Biography.
Jews > Cultural assimilation > United States.
Jews.
Jews
Juifs > États-Unis > Biographies.
Juifs > Acculturation > États-Unis.
Juifs.
HISTORY > General.
Ethnic relations
Jewish college teachers
Jews > Cultural assimilation
Hochschullehrer
Hoger onderwijs.
Leerkrachten.
Joden.
Assimilatie (sociologie)
United States > Ethnic relations.
États-Unis > Relations interethniques.
United States
USA
Juden.
Jews > History
Biography
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Messenger to the gentiles : Harry Austryn Wolfson (1887-1974)
  • American ideas of Horace Meyer Kallen (1882-1974)
  • Adamant rationalist : Morris Raphael Cohen (1880-1947)
  • Ludwig Lewisohn's ascent to Columbia (1882-1903)
  • Columbia University and the Jews at the turn of the century
  • Case of Joel Elias Spingarn (1875-1939)
  • Ludwig Lewisohn's dissent from Columbia (1904-1955)
  • Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) : representative man
  • Observance of the ordinary
  • Taming of the Jew : fictional self-reflections
  • Mind in repose above the battleground of the heart.

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