Rachel B Gro
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel B Gro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel B |
| FAMILY NAME | Gro |
| SIGNATURE | GRO R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7200-7349 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Friends Are the Cream of Life
American Jewish writers Mary Antin and Jessie Sampter met as teenagers in 1899. Throughout the next four decades, they wrote letters and visited each other, discussing literature, politics, and life. Independently, both women achieved some professional success. Antin's autobiography, The Promised Land, launched her to national fame, before she withdrew from public life to focus on religious pursuits. Sampter supported Zionist efforts from the Uni…
The Art of the Jewish Family
American religion at The Met Cloisters
This article traces the religious history of The Cloisters, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to medieval European architecture and art in northern Manhattan, providing a case study of how Americans have used images of the medieval to articulate a moralistic American spirituality. It focuses on particular moments in the museum’s history—the 1914 museum created by sculptor George Grey Barnard; the 1938 opening of The Met Cloiste…
Beyond the Synagogue
Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies Honorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society Reveals nostalgia as a new way of maintaining Jewish continuity In 2007, the Museum at Eldridge Street opened at the site of a restored nineteenth-century synagogue originally built by some of the first Eastern European Jewish immigrants in New York City. Visitors to the museum…
Table talk
Studying American Judaism through the lens of foodways challenges conventional divides between Judaism, the religion, and Jewishness, the culture, and points to fruitful avenues for studying lived religion and material culture in the United States more broadly. This essay examines how studies of American Jewish foodways draw attention to individuals and organizations who would otherwise not receive scholarly attention. They highlight the ways tha…
Heading Out
Book Review| July 01 2018 Heading Out: A History of American Camping Young, Terence. Heading Out: A History of American Camping. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017. Pp. xi+367. Illustrations, endnotes, and index. $35.00, hb. Rachel Gross Rachel Gross University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2018) 45 (2): 274–275. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.45.2.0274 Cite Icon Cit…
Table talk
Studying American Judaism through the lens of foodways challenges conventional divides between Judaism, the religion, and Jewishness, the culture, and points to fruitful avenues for studying lived religion and material culture in the United States more broadly. This essay examines how studies of American Jewish foodways draw attention to individuals and organizations who would otherwise not receive scholarly attention. They highlight the ways tha…
Heading Out
Book Review| July 01 2018 Heading Out: A History of American Camping Young, Terence. Heading Out: A History of American Camping. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017. Pp. xi+367. Illustrations, endnotes, and index. $35.00, hb. Rachel Gross Rachel Gross University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2018) 45 (2): 274–275. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.45.2.0274 Cite Icon Cit…
Table talk
Studying American Judaism through the lens of foodways challenges conventional divides between Judaism, the religion, and Jewishness, the culture, and points to fruitful avenues for studying lived religion and material culture in the United States more broadly. This essay examines how studies of American Jewish foodways draw attention to individuals and organizations who would otherwise not receive scholarly attention. They highlight the ways tha…
Beyond the Synagogue
Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies Honorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society Reveals nostalgia as a new way of maintaining Jewish continuity In 2007, the Museum at Eldridge Street opened at the site of a restored nineteenth-century synagogue originally built by some of the first Eastern European Jewish immigrants in New York City. Visitors to the museum…
The Art of the Jewish Family
American religion at The Met Cloisters
This article traces the religious history of The Cloisters, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to medieval European architecture and art in northern Manhattan, providing a case study of how Americans have used images of the medieval to articulate a moralistic American spirituality. It focuses on particular moments in the museum’s history—the 1914 museum created by sculptor George Grey Barnard; the 1938 opening of The Met Cloiste…
Friends Are the Cream of Life
American Jewish writers Mary Antin and Jessie Sampter met as teenagers in 1899. Throughout the next four decades, they wrote letters and visited each other, discussing literature, politics, and life. Independently, both women achieved some professional success. Antin's autobiography, The Promised Land, launched her to national fame, before she withdrew from public life to focus on religious pursuits. Sampter supported Zionist efforts from the Uni…
Art (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works) · Judaism (2 works) · Library science (2 works)