Sarna, Jonathan D(aniel)

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SARNA, Jonathan D(aniel)

SARNA, Jonathan D(aniel). American, b. 1955. Genres: History, Theology/ Religion, Bibliography, Biography. Career: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, visiting lecturer, 1979-80, asst professor, 1980-84, associate professor, 1984-88, professor, 1988-90; Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience, academic adviser, 1981-84, director, 1984-89; Brandeis University, Joseph H and Belle R Braun Professor of American Jewish History, 1990-. Publications: Jacksonian Jew: The Two Worlds of Mordecai Noah, 1981; The American Jewish Experience, 1986; (with A.S. Korros) American Synagogue History: A Bibliography and State-of-the Field Survey, 1988; JPS: The Americanization of Jewish Culture, 1989; (with J. Liss) Yahadut Amerika: An Annotated Bibliography of Publications in Hebrew, 1991; (with N.H. Klein) The Jews of Cincinnati, 1989; (with E. Smith) Jews of Boston, 1995; (with D.G. Dalin) Religion and State in American Jewish History, 1997. EDITOR: Jews in New Haven, 1978; (and trans.) People Walk on Their Heads: Moses Weinberger's Jews and Judaism in New York, 1982; (with H.D. Shapiro) Ethnic Diversity and Civic Identity: Patterns of Conflict and Cohesion in Cincinnati since 1820, 1992; (with L. Gartner and M. Shazar) Yehude Artsot Ha-Berit, 1992; (with D.J. Elazar and R.G. Monson) A Double Bond: The Constitutional Documents of American Jewry, 1992; Observing America's Jews: Selected Writing of Marshall Sklare, 1993. Address: Dept. of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, MS 054, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]