The Jews In Colonial America

Author : Oscar Reiss
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786484140

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The Jews in Colonial America by Oscar Reiss Pdf

The first synagogue in colonial America was built in New York City in 1730 on land that was purchased for £100 plus a loaf of sugar and one pound of Bohea tea. The purchase of this land was especially noteworthy because until this time, the Jews had only been permitted to buy land for use as a cemetery. However, by the time the Revolutionary War began, the Jewish religious center had become fairly large. Early in their stay in New Amsterdam and New York, many Jews considered themselves to be transients. Therefore, they were not interested in voting, holding office or equal rights. However, as the 18th century came to a close, Jews were able to accumulate large estates, and they recognized that they needed citizenship. After a brief overview of the Jews' migrations around Europe, the West Indies and the North and South American continents, this book describes the hardships faced by the Jewish people, beginning with New Amsterdam and New York and continuing with discussions of their experiences in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, New England, and in the South. Subsequent chapters discuss anti-Semitism, slavery and the Jews' transformation from immigrant status to American citizen.

Author : William Pencak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015062426757

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Jews & Gentiles in Early America by William Pencak Pdf

"Jews and Gentiles in Early America offers a uniquely detailed picture of Jewish life from the mid-seventeenth century through the opening decades of the new republic." "Pencak approaches his topic from the perspective of early American, rather than strictly Jewish, history. Rich in colorful narrative and animated with scenes of early American life, Jews and Gentiles in Early America tells the story of the five communities - New York, Newport, Charleston, Savannah, and Philadelphia - where most of colonial America's small Jewish population lived."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman,Donald N. Yates
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786464623

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Jews and Muslims in British Colonial America by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman,Donald N. Yates Pdf

Americans have learned in elementary school that their country was founded by a group of brave, white, largely British Christians. Modern reinterpretations recognize the contributions of African and indigenous Americans, but the basic premise has persisted. This groundbreaking study fundamentally challenges the traditional national storyline by postulating that many of the initial colonists were actually of Sephardic Jewish and Muslim Moorish ancestry. Supporting references include historical writings, ship manifests, wills, land grants, DNA test results, genealogies, and settler lists that provide for the first time the Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, and Jewish origins of more than 5,000 surnames, the majority widely assumed to be British. By documenting the widespread presence of Jews and Muslims in prominent economic, political, financial and social positions in all of the original colonies, this innovative work offers a fresh perspective on the early American experience.

Author : David S. Koffman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Pamela Nadell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393651249

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America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today by Pamela Nadell Pdf

A groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history. What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? In a gripping historical narrative, Pamela S. Nadell weaves together the stories of a diverse group of extraordinary people—from the colonial-era matriarch Grace Nathan and her great-granddaughter, poet Emma Lazarus, to labor organizer Bessie Hillman and the great justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to scores of other activists, workers, wives, and mothers who helped carve out a Jewish American identity. The twin threads binding these women together, she argues, are a strong sense of self and a resolute commitment to making the world a better place. Nadell recounts how Jewish women have been at the forefront of causes for centuries, fighting for suffrage, trade unions, civil rights, and feminism, and hoisting banners for Jewish rights around the world. Informed by shared values of America’s founding and Jewish identity, these women’s lives have left deep footprints in the history of the nation they call home.

Author : Ethan B. Katz,Lisa Moses Leff,Maud S. Mandel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253024626

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Colonialism and the Jews by Ethan B. Katz,Lisa Moses Leff,Maud S. Mandel Pdf

The lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture, and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the Jewish experience with colonialism to mobility and exchange, diaspora, internationalism, racial discrimination, and Zionism, the volume presents the work of Jewish historians who recognize the challenge that colonialism brings to their work and sheds light on the diverse topics that reflect the myriad ways that Jews engaged with empire in modern times. Taken together, these essays reveal the interpretive power of the "Imperial Turn" and present a rethinking of the history of Jews in colonial societies in light of postcolonial critiques and destabilized categories of analysis. A provocative discussion forum about Zionism as colonialism is also included.

Author : Henry L. Feingold
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Jeffrey S. Gurock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Sheldon J. Godfrey,Judy Godfrey
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0773512012

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Search Out the Land by Sheldon J. Godfrey,Judy Godfrey Pdf

To date, Jews and Jewish contributions to the early development of Canada and the British colonies have been marginalized in Canadian history. In Search Out the Land Sheldon Godfrey and Judith Godfrey begin to redress this situation by illustrating and an

Author : Paolo Bernardini,Norman Fiering
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : Hasia R. Diner
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612495606

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Doing Business in America by Hasia R. Diner Pdf

American and Jewish historians have long shied away from the topic of Jews and business. Avoidance patterns grew in part from old, often negative stereotypes that linked Jews with money, and the perceived ease and regularity with which they found success with money, condemning Jews for their desires for wealth and their proclivities for turning a profit. A new, dauntless generation of historians, however, realizes that Jewish business has had and continues to have a profound impact on American culture and development, and patterns of immigrant Jewish exploration of business opportunities reflect internal, communal, Jewish-cultural structures and their relationship to the larger non-Jewish world. As such, they see the subject rightly as a vital and underexplored area of study. Doing Business in America: A Jewish History, edited by Hasia R. Diner, rises to the challenge of taking on the long-unspoken taboo subject, comprising leading scholars and exploring an array of key topics in this important and growing area of research.

Author : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman,Donald N. Yates
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786489060

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Jews and Muslims in British Colonial America by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman,Donald N. Yates Pdf

Americans have learned in elementary school that their country was founded by a group of brave, white, largely British Christians. Modern reinterpretations recognize the contributions of African and indigenous Americans, but the basic premise has persisted. This groundbreaking study fundamentally challenges the traditional national storyline by postulating that many of the initial colonists were actually of Sephardic Jewish and Muslim Moorish ancestry. Supporting references include historical writings, ship manifests, wills, land grants, DNA test results, genealogies, and settler lists that provide for the first time the Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, and Jewish origins of more than 5,000 surnames, the majority widely assumed to be British. By documenting the widespread presence of Jews and Muslims in prominent economic, political, financial and social positions in all of the original colonies, this innovative work offers a fresh perspective on the early American experience.

Author : Joseph R. Rosenbloom
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813164267

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

Here is a virtually 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. Each entry in this dictionary is accompanied by birth and death dates and places and other biographical data so far as they are available. The biographies vary from two lines recording the birth of an unnamed stillborn child or the presence of a transient in New York City to half-column summaries of the careers of well-known persons. Included are converts to Christianity and, in some instances, their children. Persons whose names or associations have resulted in their being incorporated into earlier lists of "Jews" are noted also, with an attempt to ascertain their identity. Especially noteworthy is the small number of Jews in America during the two centuries before 1800. Only about 4,000 Jews, of whom 1,500 were native-born, have been identified in this dictionary -- and not all of these positively. Perhaps another 800 have been omitted, Rosenbloom points out, because their names are not included in extant records. Even so, it would appear that the percentage of Jews in the total colonial population (less than three million in 1783) was infinitesimal. Students of the American colonial period will find this book a useful tool for ascertaining the national origins of American Jews, their occupations, their part in the Revolution, their places of settlement, and other historical and sociological data.

Author : Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Jews
ISBN : 0814321860

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United States Jewry, 1776-1985 by Jacob Rader Marcus Pdf

Author : Miriam Kottler Freund
Publisher : Behrman House Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Jewish merchants
ISBN : UCAL:$B60412

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Jewish Merchants in Colonial America by Miriam Kottler Freund Pdf

Miriam K. Freund wrote this book as partial fulfillment of the requirements for her Doctor of Philosophy Degree at NYU in 1939. Despite the passing of time, it remains a standard reference on the subject and of vital interest to those who would delve more deeply into the shaping of American history, both secular and Jewish. There is no doubt that Jewish merchants played an important role in the commercial structure of the Colonies and in the opening of the West. In this book, Dr. Freund has captured the times and places with unusual diligence and enthusiasm.