A Biographical Dictionary Of Early American Jews

Author : Joseph R. Rosenbloom
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813182155

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A Biographical Dictionary of Early American Jews by Joseph R. Rosenbloom Pdf

A remarkable reference for those interested in American Jewish history, comprising approximately four thousand names and supplemental data. Here is a near complete list of persons identifiable as Jews in America by 1800, the result of a thorough search of manuscript materials and published literature for the names of Jews who lived in America (including Canada up to 1783) during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. No other study provides comparable information for such an ethnic group in this country. The result of a years-long effort that began as a rabbinical thesis for the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion and was eventually expanded, it serves as an essential reference for historians and other researchers.

Author : Joseph R. Rosenbloom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:609782651

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A Biographical Dictionary of Early American Jews by Joseph R. Rosenbloom Pdf

Author : Marc Raphael,Moshe Sherman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780313367724

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Orthodox Judaism in America by Marc Raphael,Moshe Sherman Pdf

The last in a series of three volumes edited by Marc Lee Raphael surveying some of the major rabbinic and lay personalities who have shaped Judaism in America for the past two centuries, this work focuses on Orthodox Judaism. Along with a basic description of the achievements of some of the most notable leaders, a bibliography of their writings and sources for further study is included as well as an essay on Orthodox rabbinic organizations and a survey of American Orthodox periodicals. Of interest to scholars, students, and lay persons alike, this volume will inform readers about the earliest communities of Jews who settled in America as they developed the institutions of Orthodox Jewish life and set a public standard of compliance with Jewish law. These early American Jews followed a Spanish-Dutch version of Sephardic customs and rites. Their synagogues used traditional prayer books, promoted the celebration of Jewish holidays, established mikvahs, acquired Passover provisions, and arranged for cemetery land and burial services. While many of these Sephardic immigrants did not maintain halakha in their daily regimen as did their European counterparts, they set a public standard of compliance with Jewish law, thus honoring Jewish tradition. Further immigration of thousands of Jews from Western and Central Europe in the middle of the 19th century brought a world of traditional piety and extensive Jewish learning to America, exemplified by Rabbi Abraham Rice, who served in Baltimore, and Yissachar Dov (Bernard) Illowy, who served communities from Philadelphia to New Orleans. Such men marked the beginning of a learned and scholarly rabbinate in America. This volume provides valuable biographical insights regarding some of the most notable religious leaders in American Orthodoxy.

Author : Moshe Sherman
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780313243165

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Orthodox Judaism in America by Moshe Sherman Pdf

The last in a series of three volumes edited by Marc Lee Raphael surveying some of the major rabbinic and lay personalities who have shaped Judaism in America for the past two centuries, this work focuses on Orthodox Judaism. Along with a basic description of the achievements of some of the most notable leaders, a bibliography of their writings and sources for further study is included as well as an essay on Orthodox rabbinic organizations and a survey of American Orthodox periodicals. Of interest to scholars, students, and lay persons alike, this volume will inform readers about the earliest communities of Jews who settled in America as they developed the institutions of Orthodox Jewish life and set a public standard of compliance with Jewish law. These early American Jews followed a Spanish-Dutch version of Sephardic customs and rites. Their synagogues used traditional prayer books, promoted the celebration of Jewish holidays, established mikvahs, acquired Passover provisions, and arranged for cemetery land and burial services. While many of these Sephardic immigrants did not maintain halakha in their daily regimen as did their European counterparts, they set a public standard of compliance with Jewish law, thus honoring Jewish tradition. Further immigration of thousands of Jews from Western and Central Europe in the middle of the 19th century brought a world of traditional piety and extensive Jewish learning to America, exemplified by Rabbi Abraham Rice, who served in Baltimore, and Yissachar Dov (Bernard) Illowy, who served communities from Philadelphia to New Orleans. Such men marked the beginning of a learned and scholarly rabbinate in America. This volume provides valuable biographical insights regarding some of the most notable religious leaders in American Orthodoxy.

Author : Joseph R. Rosenbloom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1070866287

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˜Aœ bibliographical dictionary of early American Jews by Joseph R. Rosenbloom Pdf

Author : Lucien Wolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Jews
ISBN : NLI:2197100-10

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Plan of a Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish Biography by Lucien Wolf Pdf

Author : Pamela S. Nadell,Marc Raphael
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1988-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313387630

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Conservative Judaism in America by Pamela S. Nadell,Marc Raphael Pdf

Pamela Nadell's biographical dictionary and sourcebook is a landmark contribution to American, Jewish, and religious history. For the first time, a great American Jewish religious movement is portrayed with amplitude, authority, and personality. In the most revolutionary era in two millenia of Jewish history, this surely is an important volumn. Moses Rischin, Professor of History, San Francisco State University Conservative Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook is the first extensive effort to document the lives and careers of the most important leaders in Conservatism's first century and to provide a brief history of the movement and its central institutions. It includes essays on the history of the movement and on the evolution of its major institutions: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, The Rabbinical Assembly, and The United Synagogue of America. It also contains 135 biographical entries on the leading figures of Conservative Judaism, appendices, and a complete bibliography on sources of study.

Author : Pamela S. Nadell
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1988-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015014281060

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Conservative Judaism in America by Pamela S. Nadell Pdf

Pamela Nadell's biographical dictionary and sourcebook is a landmark contribution to American, Jewish, and religious history. For the first time, a great American Jewish religious movement is portrayed with amplitude, authority, and personality. In the most revolutionary era in two millenia of Jewish history, this surely is an important volumn. Moses Rischin, Professor of History, San Francisco State University Conservative Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook is the first extensive effort to document the lives and careers of the most important leaders in Conservatism's first century and to provide a brief history of the movement and its central institutions. It includes essays on the history of the movement and on the evolution of its major institutions: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, The Rabbinical Assembly, and The United Synagogue of America. It also contains 135 biographical entries on the leading figures of Conservative Judaism, appendices, and a complete bibliography on sources of study.

Author : Paolo Bernardini,Norman Fiering
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1571814302

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The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800 by Paolo Bernardini,Norman Fiering Pdf

Jews and Judaism played a significant role in the history of the expansion of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the economic, social, and religious development of the New World. They played an important role in the discovery, colonization, and eventually exploitation of the resources of the New World. Alone among the European peoples who came to the Americas in the colonial period, Jews were dispersed throughout the hemisphere; indeed, they were the only cohesive European ethnic or religious group that lived under both Catholic and Protestant regimes, which makes their study particularly fruitful from a comparative perspective. As distinguished from other religious or ethnic minorities, the Jewish struggle was not only against an overpowering and fierce nature but also against the political regimes that ruled over the various colonies of the Americas and often looked unfavorably upon the establishment and tleration of Jewish communities in their own territory. Jews managed to survive and occasionally to flourish against all odds, and their history in the Americas is one of the more fascinating chapters in the early modern history of European expansion.

Author : Andrew Porwancher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691237282

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The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton by Andrew Porwancher Pdf

The untold story of the founding father’s likely Jewish birth and upbringing—and its revolutionary consequences for understanding him and the nation he fought to create In The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Porwancher debunks a string of myths about the origins of this founding father to arrive at a startling conclusion: Hamilton, in all likelihood, was born and raised Jewish. For more than two centuries, his youth in the Caribbean has remained shrouded in mystery. Hamilton himself wanted it that way, and most biographers have simply assumed he had a Christian boyhood. With a detective’s persistence and a historian’s rigor, Porwancher upends that assumption and revolutionizes our understanding of an American icon. This radical reassessment of Hamilton’s religious upbringing gives us a fresh perspective on both his adult years and the country he helped forge. Although he didn’t identify as a Jew in America, Hamilton cultivated a relationship with the Jewish community that made him unique among the founders. As a lawyer, he advocated for Jewish citizens in court. As a financial visionary, he invigorated sectors of the economy that gave Jews their greatest opportunities. As an alumnus of Columbia, he made his alma mater more welcoming to Jewish people. And his efforts are all the more striking given the pernicious antisemitism of the era. In a new nation torn between democratic promises and discriminatory practices, Hamilton fought for a republic in which Jew and Gentile would stand as equals. By setting Hamilton in the context of his Jewish world for the first time, this fascinating book challenges us to rethink the life and legend of America's most enigmatic founder.

Author : Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781546238935

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American Jews with Czechoslovak Roots by Miloslav Rechcigl Jr. Pdf

This is a pioneering, comprehensive bibliography of existing publications relating to American Jews with ancestry in the former Czechoslovakia and its successor states, the Czech and the Slovak Republics, which has never before been attempted. Since only a few studies have been written on the subject, the present work has been extended to include biobibliography, in which area a plethora of papers and monographs exist. Consequently, this compendium can also be viewed as a comprehensive listing of biographical sources relating to American Jews with the Czechoslovak roots. As the reader will find out, they have been involved, practically, in every field of human endeavor, in numbers that surprise. As for the definition of Jews, the present work encompasses not only the individuals that have professed in Judaism but also the descendants of the former Jews who originally lived on the territory of the former Czechoslovakia, regardless of the generation or where they were born.

Author : Pamela Susan Nadell,Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1584651245

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Women and American Judaism by Pamela Susan Nadell,Jonathan D. Sarna Pdf

New portrayals of the religious lives of American Jewish women from colonial times to the present.

Author : Lucien Wolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:474272223

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Plan of a Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish Biography by Lucien Wolf Pdf

Author : Jeffrey S. Gurock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136674372

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The Colonial and Early National Period 1654-1840 by Jeffrey S. Gurock Pdf

The first volume contains articles on a variety of areas including Jewish involvement in the War of Independence and in the American Revolution, the New York Jewish Community of the time and a look at the Dutch and English Jews of the period.

Author : Robert P. Swierenga
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814344163

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The Forerunners by Robert P. Swierenga Pdf

Between 1800 and 1880 approximately 6500 Dutch Jews immigrated to the United States to join the hundreds who had come during the colonial era. Although they numbered less than one-tenth of all Dutch immigrants and were a mere fraction of all Jews in America, the Dutch Jews helped build American Jewry and did so with a nationalistic flair. Like the other Dutch immigrant group, the Jews demonstrated the salience of national identity and the strong forces of ethnic, religious, and cultural institutions. They immigrated in family migration chains, brought special job skills and religious traditions, and founded at least three ethnic synagogues led by Dutch rabbis. The Forerunners offers the first detailed history of the immigration of Dutch Jews to the United States and to the whole American diaspora. Robert Swierenga describes the life of Jews in Holland during the Napoleonic era and examines the factors that caused them to emigrate, first to the major eastern seaboard cities of the United States, then to the frontier cities of the Midwest, and finally to San Francisco. He provides a detailed look at life among the Dutch Jews in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Orleans. This is a significant volume for readers interested in Jewish history, religious history, and comparative studies of religious declension. Immigrant and social historians likewise will be interested in this look at a religious minority group that was forced to change in the American environment.