The Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in America /

The Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in America / / ed. by Marc Lee Raphael.

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This is the first anthology in more than half a century to offer fresh insight into the history of Jews and Judaism in America. Beginning with six chronological survey essays, the collection builds with twelve topical essays focusing on a variety of important themes in the American Jewish and Judaic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Ashton, Dianne,
Bauman, Mark K.,
Caplan, Kimmy,
Faber, Eli,
Goldstein, Eric L.,
Gurock, Jeffrey S.,
Joselit, Jenna Weissman,
Klapper, Melissa R.,
Levenson, Alan T.,
Medoff, Rafael,
Nadell, Pamela S.,
Prell, Riv- Ellen,
Raphael, Linda S.,
Shandler, Jeffrey,
Staub, Michael E.,
Toll, William,
Wenger, Beth S.,
Whitfield, Stephen J.,
HerausgeberIn:
Raphael, Marc Lee,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (504 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chronological Essays
  • 1. America's Earliest Jewish Settlers, 1654-1820
  • 2. Expanding Jewish Life in America, 1826-1901
  • 3. The Great Wave: Eastern European Jewish Immigration to the United States, 1880-1924
  • 4. American Judaism Between the Two World Wars
  • 5. Triumph, Accommodation, and Resistance: American Jewish Life from the End of World War II to the Six- Day War
  • 6. Influence and Affluence, 1967-2000
  • Topical Essays
  • 7. The Ever Dying Denomination: American Jewish Orthodoxy, 1824-1965
  • 8. The History of Jewish Education in America, 1700-2000
  • 9. A Regional Context for Pacific Jewry, 1880-1930
  • 10. Fun and Games: The American Jewish Social Club
  • 11. A Multithematic Approach to Southern Jewish History
  • 12. American Jewish Responses to Nazism and the Holocaust
  • 13. Holocaust Consciousness and American Jewish Politics
  • 14. What Is American Jewish Culture?
  • 15. Rites of Citizenship: Jewish Celebrations of the Nation
  • 16. A Bright New Constellation
  • 17. Contemporary Jewish Thought
  • 18. There's No Space Like Home
  • Contributors
  • Index

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