Conversations with Colleagues

Introduction: A Community of Scholars Who Grew a Field
Jeffrey S. Gurock

Chapter 1—Finding My Way: Uniting American Jewish Women's History and U.S. Women's History
Joyce Antler

Chapter 2—Reconstructing American Jewish Historical Studies
Dianne Ashton

Chapter 3—A Meandering and Surprising Career
Mark K. Bauman

Chapter 4—How I Became an American Jewish Historian and What That Meant For My Professional Life
Hasia Diner

Chapter 5—A Scholar-Athlete’s Discovery of American Jewish History
Jeffrey S. Gurock

Chapter 6—Object Lessons
Jenna Weissman Joselit

Chapter 7—How I Learned to Call America “the States” and Became an American Jewish Historian
Eli Lederhendler

Chapter 8—Sidewalk Histories or Uncovering the Venacular Jewishness of New York City
Deborah Dash Moore

Chapter 9—Becoming an “All-of-a-Kind” Jewish Historian
Pamela S. Nadell

Chapter 10—Joining Historians as an Anthropologist at the Table of American Jewish Culture
Riv–Ellen Prell

Chapter 11—My Life in American Jewish History
Jonathan D. Sarna

Chapter 12—From Kremenets to New York: My Personal Journeys as a Historian
Shuly Rubin Schwartz

Chapter 13—Finding My Place in “the Great Tradition”
Gerald Sorin

Chapter 14—Peripatetic Journeys
Beth S. Wenger

Chapter 15—The Past from the Periphery
Stephen J. Whitfield

Chapter 16—On Rabbis, Doctors and the American Jewish Experience
Gary Phillip Zola