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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...
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    of Jewish holidays like Hannakuh and Purim, according to historian Jonathan Sarna, helped save the holiday from obscurity and was part of the creation...
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    Transformation and Renewal, Columbia University Press, 2013, pp. 119–121. Jonathan Sarna, Contemporary Reform Judaism: A Historical Perspective, in: Rosenak...
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  • hosted lectures from Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, James Wolfensohn, Professor Jonathan Sarna and Professor Zygmunt Bauman. The institute was founded in New York...
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    Borscht Belt, and "too much was not enough" developed as a notion. Jonathan Sarna wrote: "To understand the emphasis on food, one has to understand hunger...
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  • (born 1997), Polish athlete Jonathan Sarna (born 1955), American historian John Sarna (1935–2021), American politician Linda Sarna, American nursing researcher...
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  • Nahum Mattathias Sarna (Hebrew: נחום סרנא; March 27, 1923 – June 23, 2005) was a modern biblical scholar who is best known for the study of Genesis and...
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  • 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...
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    ISBN 978-1-4516-4137-0. Sarna, Jonathan D. (2012a). When General Grant Expelled the Jews. New York: Schocken Books. ISBN 978-0-8052-4279-9. Sarna, Jonathan D. (March...
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    still active, making it the movement's main surviving line. Historian Jonathan Sarna has characterized Chabad as having enjoyed the fastest rate of growth...
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    Described as a "Paul Revere-like ride to Washington" by historian Jonathan Sarna, the deportation was widely condemned. Kaskel successfully met with...
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    Schachter-Shalomi, Jim Sleeper, Michael Strassfeld, and Arthur Waskow. Historian Jonathan Sarna noted that among these members were "the people who would be leading...
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  • President Bill Clinton Jonathan Sarna: Historian of American Judaism Nahum Sarna: Biblical scholar, father of Jonathan Sarna Morrie Schwartz: Sociologist;...
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    2014. Larry Ruttman, Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society Jonathan Sarna Elected Massachusetts Historical Society Fellow, Brandeis NOW, retrieved...
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  • for its staff to research and write reports. According to historian Jonathan Sarna, the AJC's library was for the Jewish community what the Library of...
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  • for Theoretical Physics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jonathan Sarna, Joseph H. Braun and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History...
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  • Jewish Liturgy and on Christian Jewish Relations. She is married to Jonathan Sarna. Langer was educated at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion...
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  • rallied behind Myers. In an op-ed defending Myers, Brandeis professors Jonathan Sarna and Rabbi David Ellenson wrote, "The writings of David Myers indisputably...
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  • from experts on Jewish communal life. According to historians Jonathan Sarna and Jonathan J. Golden, the AJYR is "Annual Record of American Jewish Civilization"...
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    Controversy, Brandeis Brings Back The Rose Art Museum In the words of Jonathan Sarna, a professor of American Jewish History who has been at Brandeis for...
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  • of Bible Translations, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1917. Jonathan Sarna, "The Jewish Translation That Rewrote the Bible", The Forward, January...
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    and Edward S. Salomon Governor of the Washington Territory. Historian Jonathan Sarna argues: Eager to prove that he was above prejudice, Grant appointed...
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  • Jewish communities within the cities (for examples see below). However, Jonathan Sarna argues that those two precedents, as well as the desire of many Jewish...
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  • family-owned New York Herald Tribune Alexandra Robbins (B.A. 1998), author Jonathan Sarna (Ph.D. 1979), historian and author Sam Savage (B.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1979)...
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    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...
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  • Kushner, Natalie Angier, and A.B. Yehoshua, and reviews of books by Jonathan Sarna and Susan Jacoby. The website features an articles section, and a blog...
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  • Paula Hyman, Jeffrey S. Gurock, Arnold Eisen, Sylvia Barack Fishman, Jonathan Sarna, Hasia Diner, Susan Martha Kahn, Riv-Ellen Prell, Andrew Heinze, and...
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  • "Our History" at Camp Modim official website (accessed 2014-05-02). Jonathan Sarna, "The Crucial Decade in Jewish Camping", in Michael M. Lorge, Gary Phillip...
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    collection of essays by such notable Jewish studies scholars as Hasia Diner, Jonathan Sarna, and Paula Hyman. In 2011, her book Gender & Jewish History (Indiana...
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    eve of November 14, 1995, at the age of 99. Marcus was the mentor of Jonathan Sarna. The Rise and Destiny of the German Jew. Cincinnati: Union of American...
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