| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
xix, 375 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Jonathan D. Sarna -- Pt. 1. The American Jewish Community Takes Shape -- 1. The American Colonial Jew: A Study in Acculturation / Jacob R. Marcus -- 2. The Impact of the American Revolution on American Jews / Jonathan D. Sarna -- 3. The 1820s: American Jewry Comes of Age / Malcolm H. Stern -- Pt. 2. The "German Period" in American Jewish History -- 4. From Wurttemberg to America: A Nineteenth-Century German-Jewish Village on Its Way to the New World / Stefan Rohrbacher -- 5. America: The Reform Movement's Land of Promise / Michael A. Meyer -- 6. The Christian Agenda / Naomi W. Cohen -- 7. A Business Elite: German-Jewish Financiers in Nineteenth-Century New York / Barry E. Supple -- Pt. 3. The Era of East European Immigration -- 8. Immigrant Jews on the Lower East Side of New York: 1880-1914 / Deborah Dwork -- 9. Germans versus Russians / Moses Rischin -- 10. Immigrant Women and Consumer Protest: The New York City Kosher Meat Boycott of 1902 / Paula E. Hyman -- 11. Adapting to Abundance: Luxuries, Holidays, and Jewish Identity / Andrew R. Heinze -- 12. The Jewishness of the Jewish Labor Movement in the United States / Lucy S. Dawidowicz -- Pt. 4. Coming to Terms with America -- 13. Henry Ford and The International Jew / Leo P. Ribuffo -- 14. The Emergence of the American Synagogue / Jeffrey S. Gurock -- 15. The Jewish Home Beautiful / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- 16. Zionism: An American Experience / Melvin I. Urofsky -- 17. The Midpassage of American Jewry / Lloyd P. Gartner -- Pt. 5. The Holocaust and Beyond -- 18. Who Shall Bear Guilt for the Holocaust? The Human Dilemma / Henry L. Feingold -- 19. A "Golden Decade" for American Jews: 1945-1955 / Arthur A. Goren -- 20. Jewish Migration in Postwar America: The Case of Miami and Los Angeles / Deborah Dash Moore -- 21. The Turbulent Sixties / Jack Wertheimer -- 22. United States Jewry -- A Look Forward / Arthur Hertzberg -- App. 1. The Growth of the American Jewish Population -- App. 2. A Century of Jewish Immigration to the United States. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-366) and index. |
| Subject |
Jews -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Ethnic relations.
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| Added Author |
Sarna, Jonathan D.
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| ISBN |
0841913765 paperback alkaline paper |
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