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God, Grades, and Graduation: Religion’s Surprising Impact on Academic Success by Ilana Horwitz, PhD

LINK: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/god-grades-and-graduation-9780197534144?cc=us&lang=en& Ilana M. Horwitz Identifies a new type of childrearing logic that cuts across social class groups: religious restraint Draws on 10 years of surveys with...

Cotton Capitalists American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era by Michael R. Cohen

LINK: https://nyupress.org/9781479879700/cotton-capitalists/ Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society A vivid history of the American Jewish merchants who concentrated in the nation’s most important economic...

The Birth of Conservative Judaism Solomon Schechter’s Disciples and the Creation of an American Religious Movement by Michael R. Cohen

LINK: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-birth-of-conservative-judaism/9780231156356 Solomon Schechter (1847–1915), the charismatic leader of New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), came to America in 1902 intent on revitalizing traditional Judaism....

Michael Cohen Invested as Inaugural Grant Chair in the American Jewish Experience

LINK: https://news.tulane.edu/news/michael-cohen-invested-inaugural-grant-chair-american-jewish-experience Michael Cohen, Provost Robin Forman and Dean Brian Edwards process at 2 Audubon Place during Cohen’s investiture as the Stuart and Suzanne Grant Chair in...

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