LEADER 04094oam 2200685 450 001 9910810136903321 005 20161228114400.0 010 $a0-472-05205-5 010 $a0-472-02988-6 024 7 $a10.3998/mpub.5469673 035 $a(CKB)2550000001266101 035 $a(EBL)3570537 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001196007 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11652236 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001196007 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11163024 035 $a(PQKB)10617871 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3570537 035 $a(OCoLC)879745977 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35736 035 $a(MiU)10.3998/mpub.5469673 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3570537 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10861625 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL589767 035 $a(OCoLC)880451157 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001266101 100 $a20131203d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPolitics, faith, and the making of American Judaism /$fPeter Adams 210 1$aAnn Arbor :$cThe University of Michigan Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (230 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-472-07205-6 311 $a1-306-58516-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 189-200) and index. 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""13. A Judaism for the American Century""""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" 330 $a" In 1862, in the only instance of a Jewish expulsion in America, General Ulysses S. Grant banished Jewish citizens from the region under his military command. Although the order was quickly revoked by President Lincoln, it represented growing anti-Semitism in America. Convinced that assimilation was their best defense, Jews sought to Americanize by shedding distinctive dress, occupations, and religious rituals. American Jews recognized the benefit and urgency of bridging the divide between Reform and Orthodox Judaism to create a stronger alliance to face the challenges ahead. With Grant's 1868 presidential campaign, they also realized they could no longer remain aloof from partisan politics. As they became a growing influence in American politics, both political parties courted the new Jewish vote. Once in office, Grant took notice of the persecution of Jews in Romania and Russia, and he appointed more Jews to office than any president before him. Indeed, Simon Wolf, a Washington lawyer who became one of Grant's closest advisers, was part of a new generation of Jewish leaders to emerge in the post-Civil War era--thoroughly Americanized, politically mature, and committed to the modernized Judaism of the Reform movement"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aJews$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aJews$zUnited States$xSocial conditions$y19th century 606 $aJews$zUnited States$xPolitics and government$y19th century 606 $aJudaism$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xEthnic relations$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aJews$xHistory 615 0$aJews$xSocial conditions 615 0$aJews$xPolitics and government 615 0$aJudaism$xHistory 676 $a973/.04924 700 $aAdams$b Peter$0290479 712 02$aMichigan Publishing (University of Michigan) 801 0$bMiU 801 1$bMiU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810136903321 996 $aPolitics, faith, and the making of American Judaism$93967698 997 $aUNINA