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Salo Baron on Emancipation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2014

David Sorkin
David Sorkin*
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Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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dsorkin@gc.cuny.edu
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Throughout his career Salo Baron wrote about emancipation. In his scholarship on the modern period, it was perhaps the subject that concerned him most and, not surprisingly, he offered the most geographically comprehensive and conceptually inclusive understanding of emancipation of all his contemporaries. Baron freed himself from the parti pris positions of both emancipationist and nationalist historians, as well as other ideologically constrained, often mono-causal explanations.

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Symposium: Rethinking Salo W. Baron in the Twenty-First Century
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AJS Review , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , November 2014 , pp. 423 - 430
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Copyright © Association for Jewish Studies 2014 

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