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To Stand Aside or Stand Alone is a landmark collection of previously unpublished interviews with Reform rabbis concerning their roles in the civil rights movement.
A propos de l'auteur
P. Allen Krause (1939–2012), a congregational rabbi for over forty years, devoted his rabbinate to issues of human rights, social justice, and interfaith understanding. Rabbi Krause graduated summa cum laude from UCLA in 1961 and engaged in doctoral work in American history at the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded a doctorate of divinity from the Hebrew Union College in 1993 and was named the Daniel Jeremy Silver Fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University in 2005. Rabbi Krause taught at universities across California and had articles published in a variety of books and scholarly magazines.
Mark K. Bauman is a retired professor of history from Atlanta Metropolitan College. He is the author or editor of many books, including
The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s and
Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History. As the founding and current editor of the journal
Southern Jewish History, he received the Proctor Award for Outstanding Career Scholarship from the Southern Jewish Historical Society as well as fellowships from the American Jewish Archives and the College of William and Mary. Bauman investigates individual and inter- and intra-group behavior through the study of religious, ethnic, and immigrant minorities.
Stephen Krause is an attorney in the San Francisco Bay area and an award-winning singer/songwriter. He graduated magna cum laude from the Boston University School of Law in 1996 with a concentration in negotiation and dispute resolution, and he was also an editor of the Boston University
Law Review journal. Krause’s law review article, “Punishing the Press: Using Contempt of Court to Secure the Right to a Fair Trial,” published in 1996, has been cited around the world as a primary authority in cases of media indiscretion in high-profile criminal trials.
Résumé
A landmark collection of previously unpublished interviews with Reform rabbis concerning their roles in the civil rights movement. Their stories help elucidate a pivotal moment in time. This is a unique volume offering insights into these rabbis' perceptions and roles in their own words and with more depth and nuance than hitherto available.
