American Jewry : transcending the European experience? / / edited by Christian Wiese and Cornelia Wilhelm

• Pubblicazione: [New York] : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (393 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.04924
• Soggetto topico: Jews - United States - History
• Persona (resp. second.): WieseChristian; WilhelmCornelia <1964->
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Colonial identities : the early modern period -- pt. 2. Finding a "new Zion" in America's civic culture? -- pt. 3. New roles and identities in an age of mass migration -- pt. 4. Challenges for American Jewry after the Holocaust.
• Sommario/riassunto: "American Jewry explores new transnational questions in Jewish history, analyzing the historical, cultural and social experience of American Jewry from 1654 to the present day, and evaluates the relationship between European and American Jewish history. Did the hopes of Jewish immigrants to establish an independent American Judaism in a free and pluralistic country come to fruition? How did Jews in America define their relationship to the 'Old World' of Europe, both before and after the Holocaust? What are the religious, political and cultural challenges for American Jews in the twenty-first century? Internationally renowned scholars come together in this volume to present new research on how immigration from Western and Eastern Europe established a new and distinctively American Jewish identity that went beyond the traditions of Europe, yet remained attached in many ways to its European origins."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Titolo autorizzato: American Jewry
• ISBN: 1-4411-8809-6; 1-4742-1045-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910136582303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II