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Adams Peter |
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Politics, faith, and the making of American Judaism / / Peter Adams |
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Ann Arbor, Michigan : , : The University of Michigan Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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0-472-05205-5 |
0-472-02988-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (230 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Jews - United States - History - 19th century |
Jews - United States - Social conditions - 19th century |
Jews - United States - Politics and government - 19th century |
Judaism - United States - History - 19th century |
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United States Ethnic relations History 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Jerusalem across the Sea""; ""2. The First Crisis of American Jewry""; ""3. Lincoln and the "Israelites"""; ""4. Vulture of the Camp""; ""5. The Hunger for Cotton""; ""6. Exile and Other Edicts from the Battlefield""; ""7. Confederate Ideology and Southern Jewry""; ""8. Americanize as Fast as You Can""; ""9. Lincoln, Grant, and the Jewish Vote""; ""10. Prosperity and Discrimination in the Gilded Age""; ""11. Toward a Progressive and Americanized Judaism""; ""12. Violence in the Backwaters of Europe"" |
""13. A Judaism for the American Century""""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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" In 1862, in the only instance of a Jewish expulsion in America, General Ulysses S. Grant banished Jewish citizens from the region under his military command. Although the order was quickly revoked by President Lincoln, it represented growing anti-Semitism in America. Convinced that assimilation was their best defense, Jews sought to Americanize by shedding distinctive dress, occupations, and religious |
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rituals. American Jews recognized the benefit and urgency of bridging the divide between Reform and Orthodox Judaism to create a stronger alliance to face the challenges ahead. With Grant's 1868 presidential campaign, they also realized they could no longer remain aloof from partisan politics. As they became a growing influence in American politics, both political parties courted the new Jewish vote. Once in office, Grant took notice of the persecution of Jews in Romania and Russia, and he appointed more Jews to office than any president before him. Indeed, Simon Wolf, a Washington lawyer who became one of Grant's closest advisers, was part of a new generation of Jewish leaders to emerge in the post-Civil War era--thoroughly Americanized, politically mature, and committed to the modernized Judaism of the Reform movement"-- |
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