Jonathan D Sarna

Biographic Data

ID179373
NAMEJonathan D Sarna
GIVEN NAMESJonathan D
FAMILY NAMESarna
SIGNATURESARNA J D
AFFILIATIONSBrandeis University
ORCID0000-0002-7700-3109
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS43
TOTAL CITATIONS28
AUTHOR COUNT40
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX3

  • Jordan D. Rosenblum, Forbidden: A 3000-Year History of Jews and the Pig

    Open AccessJonathan D SarnaARTICLEContemporary Jewry2024

  • Roundtable on Anti-Semitism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

    Open AccessDavid S Koffman, Hasia R Diner et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of the Gilded Age and…2020

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  • Jewish Boston, Athens, and Jerusalem

    Open AccessJonathan D SarnaARTICLESociety2020

  • The Forgetting of Cora Wilburn: Historical Amnesia and The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature

    Jonathan D SarnaARTICLEStudies in American Jewish…2018

    Writing at the turn of the twentieth century, the Reverend Madison Clinton Peters (1859–1918), in his widely circulated apologetic survey entitled Justice to the Jew: The Story of What He Has Done for the World (1899), listed among America’s “numerous writers of verse” nine different Jews: Emma Lazarus, Penina Moise, Miriam del Banco, Nina Morais Cohen, Cora Wilburn, Solomon Solis-Cohen, Mary Cohen, Rebekah Hyneman, and Morris Rosenfeld.1 Four of…

  • Sisterhood: A Centennial History of Women of Reform Judaism

    Carole B Balin, Dana Herman et al.BOOKSisterhood2013

  • Antisemitism: A History

    Jonathan D SarnaARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2013

  • Lewis Feuer and the Study of American Jewish History

    Open AccessJonathan D SarnaARTICLESociety2013References: 3

  • Abba Hillel Silver and American Zionism

    Mark A Raider, Jonathan D Sarna et al.BOOKAbba Hillel Silver and American…2012

    The essays collected here investigate Rabbi Silver's Zionist political leadership, his impact on American Judaism, ideological orientation and relations with the leaders of the Palestine Jewish community, World Zionist Organization and the Jewish State.

  • The American Jewish Press

    Jonathan D SarnaBOOKThe Oxford handbook of religion…2012

    Since their emergence in the first half of the nineteenth century, Jewish newspapers have helped to shape religious community, tied far-flung American Jews together, and kept them informed. Indeed, the establishment of Jewish newspapers marked a critical turning point in the community's history. Subsequently, at key moments in the community's evolution, new “must read” periodicals regularly appeared. Yet, the history of Jewish journalism in the U…

  • When General Grant Expelled the Jews

    Jonathan D SarnaBOOKWhen General Grant expelled the…2012

    "A lecture on the 150th anniversary of Grant's infamous General Order No. 11. Dr. Jonathan D. Sarna, Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University and Chief Historian of the National Museum of American Jewish History."

  • Jews and the Civil War: A Reader

    Jonathan D Sarna, Adam D MendelsohnBOOKJews and the Civil War2010

    "At least 8,000 Jewish soldiers fought for the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War. A few served together in Jewish companies while most fought alongside Christian comrades. Yet even as they stood 'shoulder-to-shoulder' on the front lines, they encountered unique challenges. In Jews and the Civil War, Jonathan D. Sarna and Adam Mendelsohn assemble for the first time the foremost scholarship on Jews and the Civil War, little known even to s…

  • Jews and the Civil War: A Reader

    Jonathan D Sarna, Adam D Mendelsohn et al.BOOKJews and the Civil War2010

    At least 8,000 Jewish soldiers fought for the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War. A few served together in Jewish companies while most fought alongside Christian comrades. Yet even as they stood "shoulder-to-shoulder" on the front lines, they encountered unique challenges.In Jews and the Civil War, Jonathan D. Sarna and Adam Mendelsohn assemble for the first time the foremost scholarship on Jews and the Civil War, little known even to spe…

  • American Judaism: A History

    Jonathan D SarnaBOOKAmerican Judaism2008

  • What’s in a Name? A Response to Barry Chiswick

    Open AccessJonathan D SarnaARTICLEContemporary Jewry2008References: 2

  • Port Jews in the Atlantic: Further thoughts

    Open AccessJonathan D SarnaARTICLEJewish History2006Cited by: 3References: 2

  • The marshall sklare memorial lecture: New paradigms for the study of American jewish life

    Open AccessJonathan D SarnaARTICLEContemporary Jewry2003

  • Building the Future: Jewish Immigrant Intellectuals and the Making of Tsukunft

    Jonathan D SarnaARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2002

    Book Review| January 01 2002 Building the Future: Jewish Immigrant Intellectuals and the Making of Tsukunft Building the Future: Jewish Immigrant Intellectuals and the Making of Tsukunft, Steven Cassedy. Jonathan D. Sarna Jonathan D. Sarna Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2002) 21 (2): 110–111. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502825 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn M…

  • Minority Faiths and the American Protestant Mainstream

    Stephen J Stein, Jonathan D SarnaARTICLEJournal of American History1999

    Journal Article Minority Faiths and the American Protestant Mainstream. Ed. by Jonathan D. Sarna. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xii, 377 pp. Cloth, $46.50, ISBN 0-252-02293-9. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-252-06647-2.) Get access Stephen J. Stein Stephen J. Stein Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pag…

  • Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939

    Jonathan D Sarna, Daniel SoyerARTICLEJournal of American History1998

    Journal Article Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880–1939. By Daniel Soyer. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. xiv, 291 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-44417-5) Get access Jonathan D. Sarna Jonathan D. Sarna Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 255–256, https://doi.org/1…

  • The Cult of Synthesis in American Jewish Culture

    Jonathan D SarnaARTICLEJewish Social Studies1998Cited by: 8References: 4

    L'experience juive americaine, c'est-a-dire la croyance que le judaisme et l'americanisme se renforcent l'un l'autre, les deux traditions convergeant en un unique chemin, renferme un theme central de la culture juive americaine que l'on peut appeler le 'culte de la synthese'. Celui-ci a ete decrit comme un dogme essentiel de la 'religion civile' juive americaine. Dans cet article, l'A. fait une esquisse de l'histoire et de la pratique de ce culte…

  • The Jews of Boston: Essays on the Occasion of the Centenary (1895-1995) of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston

    Reed Ueda, Jonathan D Sarna et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1996

    Published on the 350th anniversary of the first Jews to arrive in America, this comprehensive history of the Jews of Boston is now available in a revised and updated paperback edition. The stunning work combines illuminating essays by distinguished Jewish historians with 110 rare photographs to trace the community from its tentative beginnings in colonial Boston through its emergence in the twentieth century as one of the most influential and suc…

  • A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness: The Origins and Rise of Anti-Semitism in America

    Jonathan D Sarna, Frederic Cople JaherARTICLEJournal of American History1995

    Journal Article A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness: The Origins and Rise of Anti-Semitism in America. By Frederic Cople Jaher. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994 and Antisemitism in America. By Leonard Dinnerstein. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994 Get access Jonathan D. Sarna Jonathan D. Sarna Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histo…

  • The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State

    Jonathan D Sarna, Benjamin GinsbergARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1994

  • Observing America's Jews

    Seymour Leventman, Marshall Sklare et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1994

  • History and Politics

    Jonathan D Sarna, Yehoshua ArieliARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article Historia u' Politika (History and politics). By Yehoshua Arieli. (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1992. 488 pp. Paper, I£ 36.55, ISBN 965-13-0796-X.) In Hebrew Get access Jonathan D. Sarna Jonathan D. Sarna Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Page 228, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081012 Published: 01 June 19…