Tikun Olam, or "repairing the world," serves as a major tenet of Judaism. It obligates the individual to try to make the world better than when they came into it by performing community service. Such service includes assisting the sick and elderly, the poor and homeless, those with physical or mental challenges, and those in prison. Mark Bauman, author and retired history professor, will discuss Jewish contributions to the development of medical facilities in the Atlanta area. Atlanta Jews were integrally involved in the creation of virtually every hospital in the city from Grady to the merger of Scottish Rite and Egleston into Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
About Dr. Mark Bauman
Mark K. Bauman retired as professor of history at Atlanta Metropolitan College. He is the author of biographies of Southern Methodist Bishop Warren A. Candler (recipient of the Jesse Lee Prize) and Rabbi Harry H. Epstein, as well as American Jewish Chronology (2001) and over fifty scholarly articles. The University of Alabama Press published a volume of his collected essays, A New Vision of Southern Jewish History (2019), and his The Hebrew Benevolent Congregation is forthcoming. He serves as founding and current editor of Southern Jewish History and co-eds the series “Jews and Judaism: History and Culture” for the University of Alabama Press. Holder of master’s degrees from Lehigh and Chicago and a doctorate from Emory, he taught at the College of William and Mary as a Mason Fellow (2005) and received Starkoff and Director’s Fellowships to conduct research at the American Jewish Archives. Bauman received the Distinguished Service Award from the Georgia Association of Historians (2002) (he served as president, 1996-97) and the first Samuel Proctor Outstanding Career Scholarship Award in Southern Jewish History from the Southern Jewish Historical Society (2008). Bauman investigates individual and inter and intra-group behavior through the study of religious/ethnic/immigrant minorities.
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