How the tools of STS can be used to understand art and science and the practices of these knowledge-making communities. In Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge, Hannah Star Rogers suggests that art and science are not as different from each other as we might assume. She shows how the tools of science and technology studies (STS) can be applied to artistic practice, offering new ways of thinking about people and objects that have largely fallen outside the scope of STS research. Arguing that the categories of art and science are labels with specific powers to order social worlds--and that art and science are best understood as networks that produce knowledge--Rogers shows, through a series of cases, the similarities and overlapping practices of these knowledge communities.&nbsp; &nbsp; The cases, which range from nineteenth-century artisans to contemporary bioartists, illustrate how art can provide the basis for a new subdiscipline called art, science, and technology studies (ASTS), offering hybrid tools for investigating art-science collaborations. Rogers's subjects include the work of father and son glassblowers, the Blaschkas, whose glass models, produced in the nineteenth century for use in biological classification, are now displayed as works of art; the physics photographs of documentary photographer Berenice Abbott; and a bioart lab that produces work functioning as both artwork and scientific output. Finally, Rogers, an STS scholar and contemporary art-science curator, draws on her own work to consider the concept of curation as a form of critical analysis.

Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience

Arts & Photography

Dalin, David G.

Sarna, Jonathan D.

History & Criticism

University of Notre Dame Press

Following a comprehensive historical introduction, Professors Sarna and Dalin present a wide range of primary source materials articulating the different positions held within the American Jewish community on numerous past and present church-state issues: including former state Sunday Laws, or "blue laws"; dress code variations for Orthodox Jews in the military; kosher food for Jewish prisoners; school prayer; public displays of religious symbols; and whether all religious symbols should be removed from public arenas. The chapters proceed chronologically, from the colonial period to the present day, giving readers an understanding of the changes that occurred over several centuries. This book recovers the divergent voices and opinions of the American Jewish community, revealing that one single voice on these issues has never been capable of accommodating the rich variety of positions within the community. By gathering these divergent outlooks in one sourcebook, Sarna and Dalin offer a unique and well-documented look at a major aspect of being Jewish in America.

History

Americas

Following a comprehensive historical introduction, Professors Sarna and Dalin present a wide range of primary source materials articulating the different positions held within the American Jewish community on numerous past and present church-state issues: including former state Sunday Laws, or "blue laws"; dress code variations for Orthodox Jews in the military; kosher food for Jewish prisoners; school prayer; public displays of religious symbols; and whether all religious symbols should be removed from public arenas. The chapters proceed chronologically, from the colonial period to the present day, giving readers an understanding of the changes that occurred over several centuries. This book recovers the divergent voices and opinions of the American Jewish community, revealing that one single voice on these issues has never been capable of accommodating the rich variety of positions within the community. By gathering these divergent outlooks in one sourcebook, Sarna and Dalin offer a unique and well-documented look at a major aspect of being Jewish in America.

In the brutal fight that has raged in recent years over the reputation of Pope Pius XII―leader of the Catholic Church during World War II, the Holocaust, and the early years of the Cold War―the task of defending the Pope has fallen primarily to reviewers. These reviewers formulated a brilliant response to the attack on Pius, but their work was scattered in various newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals―making it nearly impossible for the average reader to gauge the results. In The Pius War, Weekly Standard's Joseph Bottum has joined with Rabbi David G. Dalin to gather a representative and powerful sample of these reviews, deliberately chosen from a wide range of publications. Together with a team of professors, historians, and other experts, the reviewers conclusively investigate the claims attacking Pius XII. The Pius War, and a detailed annotated bibliography that follows, will prove to be a definitive tool for scholars and students―destined to become a major resource for anyone interested in questions of Catholicism, the Holocaust, and World War II.

The Pius War: Responses to the Critics of Pius XII

Bottum, Joseph

William Doino

Ancient Civilizations

Lexington Books

Mines the historical record to document the relationships between U.S. Presidents and the prominent Jews of their day, ranging from Haym Solomon, who helped George Washington finance the American Revolution, to Senator Joseph Lieberman, who was chosen by Vice President Al Gore to be the first Jewish nominee on a national ticket.

The Presidents of the United States & the Jews

Biographies & Memoirs

KOLATCH, ALFRED J.

Community & Culture

Jonathan David Pub

Making a Life, Building a Community: A History of the Jews of Hartford

Book by Dalin, David G., Rosenbaum, Jonathan

Rosenbaum, Jonathan

Holmes & Meier Pub

From the back cover: MAKING A LIFE, BUILDING A COMMUNITY places Hartford within the larger contexts of American social, urban, ethnic, and Jewish history by comparing its unique experience to those of New England and other American Jewish communities. Drawing extensively on primary sources such as synagogue minute books, newspapers, family memories, and an important new collection of oral histories, the authors skillfully document internal divisions and issues of communal cohesiveness. this careful study will be illuminating for anyone interested in American social or ethnic history and the immigrant experience.

Dalin, David C.

In Rabbi David G. Dalin's controversial new book, he explodes the newly resurrected, widely accepted, yet utterly bankrupt smearing of Pope Pius XII, whom Jewish survivors of the Holocaust considered a righteous gentile.

The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis

Leaders & Notable People

Regnery History

During the past half century, most American Jews believed that religion should be rigorously separated from public life. Convinced that a rigid "wall of separation" was best for both religion and the state, they steadfastly opposed the presence of any religious symbols or practices in the public arena. But the separationist position did not go unchallenged. Prominent among its critics was Will Herberg, who argued that the state's "neutrality" in religious matters could not be "a neutrality between religion and no-religion, any more than ... it could be a neutrality between morality and no-morality." In recent years, this position has gained more support. Some former separationists now think that to expunge all religious symbols from the public arena may actually infringe upon the free exercise of religion; or that the complete secularization of public life amounts to an unhealthy hostility toward religion; or that state support for religious schools is needed if American Judaism is to flourish. In brief and provocative essays, forty Jewish lawyers, rabbis, professors, writers, and policy analysts here offer varying perspectives on the role of religion in American public life.

American Jews & the Separationist Faith: The New Debate on Religion in Public Life

Ethics & Public Policy Center

A chilling, fascinating, and nearly forgotten historical figure is resurrected in a riveting work that links the fascism of the last century with the terrorism of our own. Written with verve and extraordinary access to primary sources in several languages, Icon of Evil is the definitive account of the man who during World War II was called “the führer of the Arab world” and whose ugly legacy lives on today. In 1921, the beneficiary of an appointment the British would live to regret, Haj Amin al-Husseini became the mufti of Jerusalem, the most eminent and influential Islamic leader in the Middle East. For years, al-Husseini fomented violence in the region against the Jews he loathed and wished to destroy. Forced out in 1937, he eventually found his way to the country whose legions he desperately wished to join: Nazi Germany. Here, with new and disturbing details, David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann show how al-Husseini ingratiated himself with his hero, Adolf Hitler, becoming, with his blonde hair and blue eyes, an “honorary Aryan,” while dreaming of being installed Nazi leader of the Middle East. Al-Husseini would later recruit more than 100,000 Muslims in Europe to fight in divisions of the Waffen-SS, and obstruct negotiations with the Allies that might have allowed four thousand Jewish children to escape to Palestine. Some believe that al-Husseini even inspired Hitler to implement the Final Solution. At war’s end, al-Husseini escaped indictment at Nuremberg and was harbored in France before being given a hero’s welcome in Egypt. Icon of Evil chronicles al-Husseini’s postwar relationships with such influential Islamic figures as the radical theoretician Sayyid Qutb and Saddam Hussein’s powerful uncle, General Khairallah Talfah, and his crucial mentoring of the young Yasser Arafat. Finally, it provides compelling evidence that al-Husseini’s actions and writings serve as inspirations today to the leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist organizations pledged to destroy Israel and the United States. Revelatory and unsettling, Icon of Evil reveals an essential character in the worst crimes of the modern era. It is an important addition to our understanding of the past, present, and future of radical Islam.

Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam

Rothmann, John F.

Historical

Random House]

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Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience

Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience

Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience

The Pius War: Responses to the Critics of Pius XII

The Presidents of the United States & the Jews

Making a Life, Building a Community: A History of the Jews of Hartford

Making a Life, Building a Community: A History of the Jews of Hartford

The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis

American Jews & the Separationist Faith: The New Debate on Religion in Public Life

Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam