How America Met The Jews

Author : Hasia R. Diner
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781946527035

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How America Met the Jews by Hasia R. Diner Pdf

Explore how American conditions and Jewish circumstances collided in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries In this new book award-winning author Hasia R. Diner explores the issues behind why European Jews overwhelmingly chose to move to the United States between the 1820s and 1920s. Unlike books that tend to romanticize American freedom as the force behind this period of migration or that tend to focus on Jewish contributions to America or that concentrate on how Jewish traditions of literacy and self-help made it possible for them to succeed, Diner instead focuses on aspects of American life and history that made it the preferred destination for 90 percent of European Jews. Features: Examination of the realities of race, immigration, color, money, economic development, politics, and religion in America Exploration of an America agenda that sought out white immigrants to help stoke economic development and that valued religion as a force for morality

Author : Arthur Hertzberg
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0231108419

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The Jews in America by Arthur Hertzberg Pdf

A brilliant, challenging revisionist history of the Jewish experience in America by Arthur Hertzberg, political leader, rabbi, social historian, and one of America'a most eminent Jewish thinkers.

Author : Belden Menkus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Jews
ISBN : UCAL:$B108124

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Meet the American Jew by Belden Menkus Pdf

An interpretation of contemporary American Judaism by eleven of its leaders.

Author : Abraham J. Karp
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019280721

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A History of the Jews in America by Abraham J. Karp Pdf

A comprehensive, single volume work that studies the evolution of Jewish life in America.

Author : Howard M. Sachar
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Max I. Dimont
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781497626997

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The Jews in America by Max I. Dimont Pdf

“A wondrous tale of American Judaism” from the Colonial Era to the twentiethcentury, by the acclaimed author of Jews, God, and History (Kirkus Reviews). Beginning with the Sephardim who first reached the shores of America in the 1600s, this fascinating book by historian Max Dimont traces the journey of the Jews in the United States. It follows the various waves of immigration that brought people and families from Germany, Russia, and beyond; recounts the cultural achievements of those who escaped oppression in their native lands; and discusses the movement away from Orthodoxy and the attitudes of American Jews—both religious and secular—toward Israel. From the author of Jews, God, and History, which has sold more than one million copies and was called “unquestionably the best popular history of the Jews written in the English language” by the LosAngeles Times, this is a compelling account by an author who was himself an immigrant, raised in Helsinki, Finland, before arriving at Ellis Island in 1929 and going on to serve in army intelligence in World War II.

Author : Henry L. Feingold
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486148335

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Zion in America by Henry L. Feingold Pdf

Scholarly survey covers Old World origins; profiles of New World cultures of German and Eastern European Jews; the effects of changing political and economic climates; and immigrant settlement on the Lower East Side settlement.

Author : Alan M. Dershowitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780684848983

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The Vanishing American Jew by Alan M. Dershowitz Pdf

Explores the meaning of Jewishness in light of the increasing assimilation of America's Jews and suggests ways to preserve Jewish identity.

Author : Stephen Birmingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504038959

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The Jews in America Trilogy by Stephen Birmingham Pdf

Three New York Times bestsellers chronicle the rise of America’s most influential Jewish families as they transition from poor immigrants to household names. In his acclaimed trilogy, author Stephen Birmingham paints an engrossing portrait of Jewish American life from the colonial era through the twentieth century with fascinating narrative and meticulous research. The collection’s best-known book, “Our Crowd” follows nineteenth-century German immigrants with recognizable names like Loeb, Sachs, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. Turning small family businesses into institutions of finance, banking, and philanthropy, they elevated themselves from Lower East Side tenements to Park Avenue mansions. Barred from New York’s gentile elite because of their religion and humble backgrounds, they created their own exclusive group, as affluent and selective as the one that had refused them entry. The Grandees travels farther back in history to 1654, when twenty-three Sephardic Jews arrived in New York. Members of this small and insulated group—considered the first Jewish community in America—soon established themselves as wealthy businessmen and financiers. With descendants including poet Emma Lazarus, Barnard College founder Annie Nathan Meyer, and Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, these families were—and still are—hugely influential in the nation’s culture, politics, and economics. In “The Rest of Us,” Birmingham documents the third major wave of Jewish immigration: Eastern Europeans who swept through Ellis Island between 1880 and 1924. These refugees from czarist Russia and Polish shtetls were considered barbaric, uneducated, and too steeped in the traditions of the “old country” to be accepted by the well-established German American Jews. But the new arrivals were tough, passionate, and determined. Their incredible rags to riches stories include those of the lives of Hollywood tycoon Samuel Goldwyn, Broadway composer Irving Berlin, makeup mogul Helena Rubenstein, and mobster Meyer Lansky. This unforgettable collection comprises a comprehensive account of the Jewish American upper class, their opulent world, and their lasting mark on American society.

Author : Hasia R. Diner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300210194

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Roads Taken by Hasia R. Diner Pdf

Between the late 1700s and the 1920s, nearly one-third of the world’s Jews emigrated to new lands. Crossing borders and often oceans, they followed paths paved by intrepid peddlers who preceded them. This book is the first to tell the remarkable story of the Jewish men who put packs on their backs and traveled forth, house to house, farm to farm, mining camp to mining camp, to sell their goods to peoples across the world. Persistent and resourceful, these peddlers propelled a mass migration of Jewish families out of central and eastern Europe, north Africa, and the Ottoman Empire to destinations as far-flung as the United States, Great Britain, South Africa, and Latin America. Hasia Diner tells the story of millions of discontented young Jewish men who sought opportunity abroad, leaving parents, wives, and sweethearts behind. Wherever they went, they learned unfamiliar languages and customs, endured loneliness, battled the elements, and proffered goods from the metropolis to people of the hinterlands. In the Irish Midlands, the Adirondacks of New York, the mining camps of New South Wales, and so many other places, these traveling men brought change—to themselves and the families who later followed, to the women whose homes and communities they entered, and ultimately to the geography of Jewish history.

Author : Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience
Publisher : New York : Holmes & Meier
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Jews
ISBN : UCAL:B3421974

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The American Jewish Experience by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience Pdf

Author : Melissa R. Klapper
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814749348

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Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920 by Melissa R. Klapper Pdf

Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860—1920 draws on a wealth of archival material, much of which has never been published—or even read—to illuminate the ways in which Jewish girls’ adolescent experiences reflected larger issues relating to gender, ethnicity, religion, and education. Klapper explores the dual roles girls played as agents of acculturation and guardians of tradition. Their search for an identity as American girls that would not require the abandonment of Jewish tradition and culture mirrored the struggle of their families and communities for integration into American society. While focusing on their lives as girls, not the adults they would later become, Klapper draws on the papers of such figures as Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah; Edna Ferber, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Showboat; and Marie Syrkin, literary critic and Zionist. Klapper also analyzes the diaries, memoirs, and letters of hundreds of other girls whose later lives and experiences have been lost to history. Told in an engaging style and filled with colorful quotes, the book brings to life a neglected group of fascinating historical figures during a pivotal moment in the development of gender roles, adolescence, and the modern American Jewish community.

Author : David S. Koffman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781978800861

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The Jews’ Indian by David S. Koffman Pdf

The Jews' Indian investigates the history of American Jewish relationships with Native Americans, both in the realm of cultural imagination and in face-to-face encounters. This book is the first history to analyze Jewish participation in, and Jews' grappling with the legacies of Native American history and the colonial project upon which America rests.

Author : Hasia R. Diner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520248489

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The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000 by Hasia R. Diner Pdf

Annotation A history of Jews in American that is informed by the constant process of negotiation undertaken by ordinary Jews in their communities who wanted at one and the same time to be good Jews and full Americans.

Author : Richard Breitman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674073678

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FDR and the Jews by Richard Breitman Pdf

A contentious debate lingers over whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews of Hitler’s Europe. FDR and the Jews reveals a concerned leader whose efforts on behalf of Jews were far greater than those of any other world figure but whose moral leadership was tempered by the political realities of depression and war.