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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818604203321

Titolo

The Columbia history of Jews and Judaism in America / / edited by Marc Lee Raphael

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2008

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 490 pages)

Disciplina

973.04924

973/.04924

Soggetti

Jews - United States - History

Judaism - United States - History

Jews - Cultural assimilation - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

America's earliest Jewish settlers, 1654-1820 / Eli Faber -- Expanding Jewish life in America, 1826-1901 / Dianne Ashton -- The great wave : Eastern European Jewish immigration to the United States, 1880-1924 / Eric L. Goldstein -- American Judaism between the two world wars / Jeffrey S. Gurock -- Triumph, accommodation, and resistance : American Jewish life from the end of World War II to the Six-Day War / Riv-Ellen Prell -- Influence and affluence, 1967-2000 / Stephen J. Whitfield -- The ever dying denomination : American Jewish Orthodoxy, 1824-1965 / Kimmy Caplan -- The history of Jewish education in America, 1700-2000 / Melissa R. Klapper -- A regional context for Pacific Jewry, 1880-1930 / William Toll -- Fun and games : the American Jewish social club / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- A multithematic approach to Southern Jewish history / Mark K. Bauman -- American Jewish responses to Nazism and the Holocaust / Rafael Medoff -- Holocaust consciousness and American Jewish politics / Michael E. Staub -- What is American Jewish culture? / Jeffrey Shandler -- Rites of citizenship : Jewish celebrations of the nation / Beth S. Wenger -- A bright new constellation : feminism and American Judaism / Pamela S. Nadell -- Contemporary Jewish thought / Alan T. Levenson -- There's no space like home : the representation of Jewish American life / Linda S. Raphael.



Sommario/riassunto

This collection focuses on a variety of important themes in the American Jewish and Judaic experience. It opens with essays on early Jewish settlers (1654-1820), the expansion of Jewish life in America (1820-1901), the great wave of eastern European Jewish immigrants (1880-1924), the character of American Judaism between the two world wars, American Jewish life from the end of World War II to the Six-Day War, and the growth of Jews' influence and affluence. The second half of the volume includes essays on Orthodox Jews, the history of Jewish education in America, the rise of Jewish soc