Jacob Singer (1883-1964): Bio-Bibliography of a Jewish-Latvian-Nebraskan Sociologist

Authors

Michael R. Hill, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Natalja Callahan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date of this Version

2010

Citation

Sociological Origins, Volume 6, No. 1, Spring 2010: 17-25.

Comments

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Abstract

The professional life of Jacob Singer was deeply entwined with religion and thus exemplifies the sociological life histories of many early sociologists in the United States and elsewhere. Numerous Protestant sociologists, such as Charles A. Ellwood (1988) and the religious men of the early Chicago School, e.g., Albion Small, Charles R. Henderson, George Vincent and Charles Zeublin (Deegan 1988: 71- 104), interpenetrated the boundaries between sociology and religion as did several Catholic sociologists, including, for example, Eva J. Ross (Hill 1999) and the members of the Christus Rex Society in Ireland (Daly 2006). Adding to the religious diversity of this phenomenon, Jacob Singer explored sociology from his deeply committed perspective as a musically-talented Jewish rabbi.