Synopsis
The life of Mordecai Noah is part of a larger story, one which might be titled "The Making of the American Jew." American Jews have become a unique community-different from other Americans, different from other Jews. The forces that shaped these American Jews were many of the same forces that shaped Mordecai Noah. To understand Noah is to begin to understand the process which transformed radically dissimilar Jews, from very different backgrounds, into the vibrant and creative American Jewish community it is today.
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About the Author
Jonathan D. Sarna is the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History and Chair of the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program at Brandeis University, as well as Chief Historian of the new National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. Dubbed by the Forward newspaper in 2004 as one of America's fifty most influential American Jews, he was Chief Historian for the 350th commemoration of the American Jewish community, and is recognised as a leading commentator on American Jewish history, religion and life. He is the only American Jewish historian ever elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Born in Philadelphia, and raised in New York and Boston, Dr. Sarna attended Brandeis University, the Boston Hebrew College, Merkaz HaRav Kook in Jerusalem, and Yale University, where he obtained his doctorate. He has taught and lectured on four continents, has appeared in half-a-dozen documentary films, and is regularly quoted in newspapers across the world. Sarna is perhaps the field's most prolific scholar. He has published hundreds of scholarly articles, writes a column in the Forward entitled ""Now and Then"" (because, he says, he produces it ""now and then"") and has written, edited or coedited more than thirty books, including, most recently, When General Grant Expelled the Jews. He is probably best known for his acclaimed American Judaism: A History, winner of the Jewish Book Council's ""Jewish Book of the Year Award."" It has been praised as being ""the single best description of American Judaism during its 350 years on American soil.""
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Jacksonian Jew: The Two Worlds of Mordecai Noah
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Holmes & Meier Pub, 1981
ISBN 10: 0841905673
ISBN 13: 9780841905672
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Hardcover
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Seller: Albion Books, Irvine, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., 233 pages. The front flap blurb labels Noah "The most important Jew of his time". Perhaps. Perhaps not. Any way on with the nuts and bolts. The former owner has inked his/her name in the upper right corner of the front free endpaper. DJ spine faded but still very readable and with mild edgewear but no chipping. Now in a protective mylar sleeve. Seller Inventory # 6709-2-4