The Columbia history of Jews and Judaism in America /

This collection focuses on a variety of important themes in the American Jewish and Judaic experience. It opens with essays on early Jewish settlers (1654-1820), the expansion of Jewish life in America (1820-1901), the great wave of eastern European Jewish immigrants (1880-1924), the character of Am...

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Other Authors: Raphael, Marc Lee
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • America's earliest Jewish settlers, 1654-1820 / Eli Faber
  • Expanding Jewish life in America, 1826-1901 / Dianne Ashton
  • The great wave : Eastern European Jewish immigration to the United States, 1880-1924 / Eric L. Goldstein
  • American Judaism between the two world wars / Jeffrey S. Gurock
  • Triumph, accommodation, and resistance : American Jewish life from the end of World War II to the Six-Day War / Riv-Ellen Prell
  • Influence and affluence, 1967-2000 / Stephen J. Whitfield
  • The ever dying denomination : American Jewish Orthodoxy, 1824-1965 / Kimmy Caplan
  • The history of Jewish education in America, 1700-2000 / Melissa R. Klapper
  • A regional context for Pacific Jewry, 1880-1930 / William Toll
  • Fun and games : the American Jewish social club / Jenna Weissman Joselit
  • A multithematic approach to Southern Jewish history / Mark K. Bauman
  • American Jewish responses to Nazism and the Holocaust / Rafael Medoff
  • Holocaust consciousness and American Jewish politics / Michael E. Staub
  • What is American Jewish culture? / Jeffrey Shandler
  • Rites of citizenship : Jewish celebrations of the nation / Beth S. Wenger
  • A bright new constellation : feminism and American Judaism / Pamela S. Nadell
  • Contemporary Jewish thought / Alan T. Levenson
  • There's no space like home : the representation of Jewish American life / Linda S. Raphael.