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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838225603321

Titolo

The Jewish Metropolis : New York City from the 17th to the 21st Century / / ed. by Daniel Soyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-64469-491-3

1-64469-490-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Collana

The Lands and Ages of the Jewish People

Disciplina

974.7/004924

Soggetti

Jews - New York (State) - New York - History

Jews - New York (State) - New York - Social life and customs

New York (State) - New York - Ethnic relations

RELIGION / Judaism / History

New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: New York as a Jewish City -- Important Note -- 1 Colonial Jews in New Amsterdam, New York, and the Atlantic World -- 2 New York Jews and the Early Republic -- 3 The Other Jews: Jewish Immigrants from Central Europe in New York, 1820–1880 -- 4 From the Pale of Settlement to the Lower East Side: Early Hardships of Russian Immigrant Jews -- 5 Yiddish New York -- 6 “Impostors”: Levantine Jews and the Limits of Jewish New York -- 7 Jewish Builders in New York City, 1880–1980 -- 8 New York Jews and American Literature -- 9 “I Never Think About Being Jewish—Until I Leave New York”: Jewish Art in New York City, 1900 to the Present -- 10 Jewish Geography in New York Neighborhoods, 1945–2000 -- 11 New York and American Judaism -- 12 Jews and Politics in New York City -- 13 How Are New York City Jews Different from Other American Jews? -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Jewish Metropolis: New York from the 17th to the 21st Century covers the entire sweep of the history of the largest Jewish community of all time. It provides an introduction to many facets of that history,



including the ways in which waves of immigration shaped New York’s Jewish community; Jewish cultural production in English, Yiddish, Ladino, and German; New York’s contribution to the development of American Judaism; Jewish interaction with other ethnic and religious groups; and Jewish participation in the politics and culture of the city as a whole. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field, and includes a bibliography for further reading. The Jewish Metropolis captures the diversity of the Jewish experience in New York.