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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462897503321

Autore

Diner Hasia R

Titolo

The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000 [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (476 p.)

Collana

Jewish Communities in the Modern World

Disciplina

973.004924

973.04924

973/.04924

Soggetti

Jews-- United States-- History

United States - Ethnic relations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: THE EARLIEST JEWISH COMMUNITIES; 1. American Jewish Origins: 1654-1776; 2. Becoming American: 1776-1820; PART TWO: THE PIVOTAL CENTURY; 3. A Century of Migration: 1820-1924; 4. A Century of Jewish Life in America: 1820-1924; 5. A Century of Jewish Politics: 1820-1920; PART THREE: TWENTIETH-CENTURY JOURNEYS; 6. At Home and Beyond: 1924-1948; 7. A Golden Age? 1948-1967; 8. In Search of Continuity: 1967-2000; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Photographs

Sommario/riassunto

Since Peter Stuyvesant greeted with enmity the first group of Jews to arrive on the docks of New Amsterdam in 1654, Jews have entwined their fate and fortunes with that of the United States-a project marked by great struggle and great promise. What this interconnected destiny has meant for American Jews and how it has defined their experience among the world's Jews is fully chronicled in this work, a comprehensive and finely nuanced history of Jews in the United States from 1654 through the end of the past century. Hasia R. Diner traces Jewish participation in American history-from the communi