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537 Acknowledgments Thanks are due first of all to Prof. Henry Feingold, Modern Jewish History series editor, Syracuse University Press. From the moment this project was conceived, his support was constant, encouraging, and informed. I am fortunate to have benefited from his experience and knowledge of American Jewish history, and this book owes much to him. Louis Marshall’s papers are a sprawling component in the remarkable documentary collection of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA), located in Cincinnati, Ohio. I enjoyed and profited from every minute of innumerable research trips to the archive, starting with the receipt of a Loewenstein-Wiener Research Fellowship in 2006. Under Dr. Gary Zola’s direction, the American Jewish Archives are a researcher’s paradise. I have had the pleasure of working closely at the AJA with Senior Archivist Kevin Proffitt, and I thank him for his help. Thanks also to Frederic Krome and his successor, Dana Herman, along with Camille Servizzi and everyone else on the AJA staff. I first began to organize thoughts and information about Marshall in response to an invitation sent by Prof. Mark Raider to participate in a scholarly symposium held in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of Marshall’s birth. For some years, I have appreciated Mark’s collegial professionalism and scholarly dedication, and these traits played a catalyst role in this project. Thanks also to Prof. Eric Goldstein, who, with Prof. Raider, edited and published an article about Marshall that I contributed to a special 2008 issue of the American Jewish History journal, which emerged out of the Marshall symposium. I was fortunate to discuss Marshall family history with one of Louis’s grandchildren, Roger Marshall. Roger arranged a memorable visit to Saranac Lake and to the Marshall family summer home at Knollwood. This visit to the Adirondacks provided invaluable insight about the Marshall family in general and was particularly germane to the “Jews and Birds” chapter. In addition to Roger Marshall and his wife Barbara, I thank other hosts and discussion partners during this visit: Mary Hotaling and Amy Catania of the Saranac Laboratory Museum, Caroline Welsh and Angela Nye of the Adirondack Museum, and the kind proprietors of the Adirondack Motel. A key research stretch for this project, during the academic year 2009–10, was made possible by funding for a visiting professorship in Israel studies provided by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE), with assistance from the Columbus Jewish Foundation, the Columbus 538 • Acknowledgments Jewish Federation, Judy and Merom Brachman and Anna and Danny Robins. I am happy to acknowledge specifically in this connection the help of AICE’s indefatigable executive director, Dr. Mitchell Bard. The Ohio State University’s Melton Center for Jewish Studies graciously invited me to work as a visiting professor during the same 2009–10 year, and I profited tremendously from the stimulating, warm atmosphere this teaching stint provided, conveniently in the vicinity of the Louis Marshall papers. Prof. Matt Goldish, Melton Center director, displayed exceptional patience regarding the oddity of a visiting professor in Israel studies investing much research time in the area of American Jewish history; I thank him for this friendly exhibition of scholarly latitude. I am also happy to thank Melton Center administrator Lori Fireman for her help. I thank also Professors Carole Fink, Alan Beyerchen, Robin Judd, and other faculty members associated with the Melton Center for their support and interest in my work. Friendship with Robin Judd and Ken Steinman and family, of Columbus, Ohio, was much appreciated during this research year, and its highlights, including the thrills and spills of my initiation in the international association of researchers of Jewish history who cannot ski, are fondly recalled by members of my own family. Thanks also go to community shaliach Avi Kagan and family, as well as to my Ohio relatives Seth Young and Lois Rosow, and Julie Zavon. I acknowledge the collegial interest and encouragement of members of the Ohio State University’s History Department: Profs. Peter Hahn, Kevin Boyle, James Bartholomew, Mansel Blackford, Nicholas Breyfogle, Steven Conn, Jane Hathaway, Christopher Reed, Jennifer Siegel, David Stebenne. In Syracuse, I enjoyed the hospitality of Marshall enthusiast and author Herbert Alpert—I thank Herb especially for the tour of Marshall’s native grounds. Thanks also to Pamela Priest, archivist at the Onondaga Historical Association. I acknowledge gratefully the following: the staff of the American Jewish Historical Society at the Center for Jewish...

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