American Jewish History

Author : Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300190397

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American Judaism by Jonathan D. Sarna Pdf

Jonathan D. Sarna's award-winning American Judaism is now available in an updated and revised edition that summarizes recent scholarship and takes into account important historical, cultural, and political developments in American Judaism over the past fifteen years. Praise for the first edition: "Sarna . . . has written the first systematic, comprehensive, and coherent history of Judaism in America; one so well executed, it is likely to set the standard for the next fifty years."--Jacob Neusner, Jerusalem Post "A masterful overview."--Jeffrey S. Gurock, American Historical Review "This book is destined to be the new classic of American Jewish history."--Norman H. Finkelstein, Jewish Book World Winner of the 2004 National Jewish Book Award/Jewish Book of the Year

Author : Howard M. Sachar
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804150521

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A History of the Jews in America by Howard M. Sachar Pdf

Spanning 350 years of Jewish experience in this country, A History of the Jews in America is an essential chronicle by the author of The Course of Modern Jewish History. With impressive scholarship and a riveting sense of detail, Howard M. Sachar tells the stories of Spanish marranos and Russian refugees, of aristocrats and threadbare social revolutionaries, of philanthropists and Hollywood moguls. At the same time, he elucidates the grand themes of the Jewish encounter with America, from the bigotry of a Christian majority to the tensions among Jews of different origins and beliefs, and from the struggle for acceptance to the ambivalence of assimilation.

Author : Jeffrey Gurock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136675287

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America, American Jews, and the Holocaust by Jeffrey Gurock Pdf

This volume incorporates studies of the persecution of the Jews in Germany, the respective responses of the German-American Press and the American-Jewish Press during the emergence of Nazism, and the subsequent issues of rescue during the holocaust and policies towards the displaced.

Author : Gary Phillip Zola,Marc Dollinger
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781611685107

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American Jewish History by Gary Phillip Zola,Marc Dollinger Pdf

Presenting the American Jewish historical experience from its communal beginnings to the present through documents, photographs, and other illustrations, many of which have never before been published, this entirely new collection of source materials complements existing textbooks on American Jewish history with an organization and pedagogy that reflect the latest historiographical trends and the most creative teaching approaches. Ten chapters, organized chronologically, include source materials that highlight the major thematic questions of each era and tell many stories about what it was like to immigrate and acculturate to American life, practice different forms of Judaism, engage with the larger political, economic, and social cultures that surrounded American Jews, and offer assistance to Jews in need around the world. At the beginning of each chapter, the editors provide a brief historical overview highlighting some of the most important developments in both American and American Jewish history during that particular era. Source materials in the collection are preceded by short headnotes that orient readers to the documentsÕ historical context and significance.

Author : jeffrey s gurock
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0415919207

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American Jewish History by jeffrey s gurock Pdf

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Moses Rischin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015078078105

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An Inventory of American Jewish History by Moses Rischin Pdf

Author : Jack Wertheimer
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1584656700

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Imagining the American Jewish Community by Jack Wertheimer Pdf

A lively collection of sixteen essays on the many ways American Jews have imagined and constructed communities

Author : Beth S. Wenger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400834051

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History Lessons by Beth S. Wenger Pdf

Most American Jews today will probably tell you that Judaism is inherently democratic and that Jewish and American cultures share the same core beliefs and values. But in fact, Jewish tradition and American culture did not converge seamlessly. Rather, it was American Jews themselves who consciously created this idea of an American Jewish heritage and cemented it in the popular imagination during the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. History Lessons is the first book to examine how Jews in the United States collectively wove themselves into the narratives of the nation, and came to view the American Jewish experience as a unique chapter in Jewish history. Beth Wenger shows how American Jews celebrated civic holidays like Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July in synagogues and Jewish community organizations, and how they sought to commemorate Jewish cultural contributions and patriotism, often tracing their roots to the nation's founding. She looks at Jewish children's literature used to teach lessons about American Jewish heritage and values, which portrayed--and sometimes embellished--the accomplishments of heroic figures in American Jewish history. Wenger also traces how Jews often disagreed about how properly to represent these figures, focusing on the struggle over the legacy of the Jewish Revolutionary hero Haym Salomon. History Lessons demonstrates how American Jews fashioned a collective heritage that fused their Jewish past with their American present and future.

Author : Norman H. Finkelstein
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827609754

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American Jewish History by Norman H. Finkelstein Pdf

This JPS Guide chronicles the extraordinary history of American Jewry. Finkelstein tells the dramatic 350-year story of the people and events that shaped the lives of today's American Jews. Divided into six time periods, American Jewish History describes Jewish life from the time of the early settlers, to the period of massive immigration that flooded the cities, to the incredible growth of Jews in positions of influence in business, politics, and the arts. This is a story of a people who affected not only the lives of Jews in the U.S. today, but also the course of American history itself. There are over 70 black and white photographs, maps, and charts and more than 120 feature boxes and biographies throughout, as well as timelines, notes, a bibliography, and index. Finkelstein has made the saga of American Jewry much more than a compilation of historical facts. This is wonderfully stimulating journey--a worthwhile adventure for readers of all ages.

Author : American Jewish Historical Society
Publisher : Random House Reference
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015049668927

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American Jewish Desk Reference by American Jewish Historical Society Pdf

This all-encompassing reference book covers virtually every subject pertaining to Jews in the United States. The sheer volume of information on the subjects and people relative to the Jewish experience in the United States is what makes this book so impressive. Arranged by subject -- from Feminism, Intermarriage and Conversion, Rituals and Celebrations, Business, Education, and Sports to Art and Entertainment -- chapters include A-Z and chronological listings of events, people, and more.Included in this book are descriptions of the many noteworthy Jewish Americans who had a profound effect on our country, including Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Harvey Milk, Calvin Klein, Peggy Guggenheim, Mark Rothko, Woody Allen and Gloria Steinem, just to name a few. This book brings together the issues and figures of contemporary Judaism in the United States in an adult manner unlike any other reference book of its kind.

Author : Martin Goodman,Jeremy Cohen,David Sorkin
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks Online
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0199280320

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The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies by Martin Goodman,Jeremy Cohen,David Sorkin Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies reflects the current state of scholarship in the field as analyzed by an international team of experts in the different and varied areas represented within contemporary Jewish Studies. Unlike recent attempts to encapsulate the current state of Jewish Studies, the Oxford Handbook is more than a mere compendium of agreed facts; rather, it is an exhaustive survey of current interests and directions in the field.

Author : Jeffrey S. Gurock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136675003

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American Jewish Life, 1920-1990 by Jeffrey S. Gurock Pdf

This volume contains articles on Jewish life from 1920 to the present. Its entries include studies of the economy and migration in postwar America, the impact of Holocaust survivors on American Society and the reaction to gender stereotypes within American Culture.

Author : Mark A. Raider,Gary Phillip Zola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1684580536

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New Perspectives in American Jewish History by Mark A. Raider,Gary Phillip Zola Pdf

Widely regarded as today's foremost American Jewish historian, Jonathan D. Sarna had a huge impact on the academy. Sarna's influence is perhaps nowhere more apparent than among his former doctoral students--a veritable "Sarna diaspora" of over three dozen active scholars around the world. Both a tribute to Sarna and an important collection in its own right, New Perspectives in American Jewish History was compiled by Sarna's former students and presents previously unpublished, neglected, or rarely seen historical documents and images that illuminate the breadth, diversity, and dynamism of the American Jewish experience. Beginning with the earliest known Jewish divorce in circum-Atlantic history (1774) and concluding with a Black Lives Matter Haggadah supplement (2019), the collection travels across time and space to shed light on intriguing and generative moments that span the varieties of Jewish experience in the American setting from the colonial era to the present. The materials underscore the interrelationship of myriad themes including ritual observance, Jewish-Christian relations, civil rights, Zionism and Israel, and immigration. While not intended as a comprehensive treatment of American Jewish history, the collection offers a chronological road map of American Jewry's evolving self-understanding and encounter with America over the course of four centuries. A brief prefatory note sets up the analytic context of each document and helps to unpack and explore its significance. The capacious and multifaceted quality of the American Jewish experience is further amplified here by a sampling of artistic texts such as photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and more.

Author : Ava F. Kahn
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814338629

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Transnational Traditions by Ava F. Kahn Pdf

Despite being the archetypal diasporic people, modern Jews have most often been studied as citizens and subjects of single nation states and empires—as American, Polish, Russian, or German Jews. This national approach is especially striking considering the renewed interest among scholars in global and transnational influences on the modern world. Editors Ava F. Kahn and Adam D. Mendelsohn offer a new approach in Transnational Traditions: New Perspectives on American Jewish History as contributors use transnational and comparative methodologies to place American Jewry into a broader context of cultural, commercial, and social exchange with Jews in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and South America. In examining patterns that cross national boundaries, contributors offer new ways of understanding the development of American Jewish life. The diverse chapters, written by leading scholars, reflect on episodes of continuity and contact between Jews in America and world Jewry over the past two centuries. Individual case studies cover a range of themes including migration, international trade, finance, cultural interchange, acculturation, and memory and commemoration. Overall, this volume will expose readers to the variety and complexity of transnational experiences and encounters within American Jewish history. Accessible to students and scholars alike, Transnational Traditions will be appropriate as a classroom text for courses on modern Jewish, ethnic, immigration, world, and American history. No other single work in the field systematically focuses on this subject, nor covers the range of themes explored in this volume.

Author : Pamela S. Nadell
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814758083

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American Jewish Women's History by Pamela S. Nadell Pdf

“It gives me a secret pleasure to observe the fair character our family has in the place by Jews & Christians,“Abigail Levy Franks wrote to her son from New York City in 1733. Abigail was part of a tiny community of Jews living in the new world. In the centuries that followed, as that community swelled to several millions, women came to occupy diverse and changing roles. American Jewish Women’s History, an anthology covering colonial times to the present, illuminates that historical diversity. It shows women shaping Judaism and their American Jewish communities as they engaged in volunteer activities and political crusades, battled stereotypes, and constructed relationships with their Christian neighbors. It ranges from Rebecca Gratz’s development of the Jewish Sunday School in Philadelphia in 1838 to protest the rising prices of kosher meat at the turn of the century, to the shaping of southern Jewish women's cultural identity through food. There is currently no other reader conveying the breadth of the historical experiences of American Jewish women available. The reader is divided into four sections complete with detailed introductions. The contributors include: Joyce Antler, Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Alice Kessler-Harris, Paula E. Hyman, Riv-Ellen Prell, and Jonathan D. Sarna.