Jacob's Voices: Reflections of a Wandering American Jew (Journeys and Memoirs Series)
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Jacob's Voices: Reflections of a Wandering American Jew (Journeys and Memoirs Series) Overview
An American professor of history finds his roots in a personal journey through Israel--and into assimilated America, academia, baseball, and family--headlong into deep tensions and ambivalence about country, culture, identity and religion. Worried about the commitment of Jews to their heritage, Jerold Auerbach (renowned author of Unequal Justice) shares his story and musings with insight, irony, and intensity. A personal journey, literally and spiritually, shared by one of the most recognized legal historians in the United States.
JEROLD S. AUERBACH is Professor Emeritus of History at Wellesley College, where he has taught courses on modern United States history, freedom of speech, American Jewish history, and the history of Israel. His recent books include Hebron Jews: Memory and Conflict in the Land of Israel (2009) and Explorers in Eden: Pueblo Indians and the Promised Land (2006).
Part of the Journeys and Memoirs Series of Quid Pro Books, in a high-quality ebook format (with active contents and embedded images); originally published by Southern Illinois University Press.
From the original dustjacket:
“We have the voice of Auerbach himself reflecting on . . . the remarkable conversion experienced in Israel that transformed him from a somewhat typical left-leaning American Jewish academic to America’s foremost intellectual exponent of right-wing Zionism. This intellectual transformation is of substantial interest to students of recent American Jewish history, and Auerbach writes with admirable honesty and self-reflection about it.”
-- Jonathan D. Sarna, Joseph H. and Bell R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University
From the hardback: "A three-generation narrative, this is the autobiography of an American Jew who discovered in Israel a way to unravel the legacy of Jewish ambivalence transmitted by his immigrant grandfather and American father."
Jacob's Voices: Reflections of a Wandering American Jew (Journeys and Memoirs Series) Specifications
An American professor of history finds his roots in a personal journey through Israel--and into assimilated America, academia, baseball, and family--headlong into deep tensions and ambivalence about country, culture, identity and religion. Worried about the commitment of Jews to their heritage, Jerold Auerbach (renowned author of Unequal Justice) shares his story and musings with insight, irony, and intensity. A personal journey, literally and spiritually, shared by one of the most recognized legal historians in the United States.
JEROLD S. AUERBACH is Professor Emeritus of History at Wellesley College, where he has taught courses on modern United States history, freedom of speech, American Jewish history, and the history of Israel. His recent books include Hebron Jews: Memory and Conflict in the Land of Israel (2009) and Explorers in Eden: Pueblo Indians and the Promised Land (2006).
Part of the Journeys and Memoirs Series of Quid Pro Books, in a high-quality ebook format (with active contents and embedded images); originally published by Southern Illinois University Press.
From the original dustjacket:
“We have the voice of Auerbach himself reflecting on . . . the remarkable conversion experienced in Israel that transformed him from a somewhat typical left-leaning American Jewish academic to America’s foremost intellectual exponent of right-wing Zionism. This intellectual transformation is of substantial interest to students of recent American Jewish history, and Auerbach writes with admirable honesty and self-reflection about it.”
-- Jonathan D. Sarna, Joseph H. and Bell R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University
From the hardback: "A three-generation narrative, this is the autobiography of an American Jew who discovered in Israel a way to unravel the legacy of Jewish ambivalence transmitted by his immigrant grandfather and American father."
