The selected writings of Mordecai Noah / edited by Michael Schuldiner and Daniel J. Kleinfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Noah, M. M. (Mordecai Manuel), 1785-1851.

Contributor:

Schuldiner, Michael Joseph.

Kleinfeld, Daniel J., 1974-

Series:

Contributions in American studies 0084-9227 ; no. 107.

Contributions in American studies, 0084-9227 ; no. 107

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. 1999

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Noah, M. M. (Mordecai Manuel), 1785-1851.

Jews--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Jews.

New York (State)--New York.

Jewish authors--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Jewish authors.

Jews--Restoration.

Grand Island (N.Y. : Island).

New York (N.Y.)--Biography.

National Book Committee.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 171 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.

Contents:

Mordecai Manuel Noah / Daniel J. Kleinfeld 5

Noah's Drama

The Historical Drama of Mordecai Noah's She Would Be a Soldier / Michael Schuldiner 11

She Would Be a Soldier (1819) 25

A Memoir of the Theatre (1832) 65

Noah's Social Commentary and Jewish Advocacy

Staging a Nation: Mordecai Noah and the Early Republic / Daniel J. Kleinfeld 69

Selections from Essays of Howard, on Domestic Economy (1820) 77

[Idleness and Luxury] 77

[Decadence and Dinner Parties] 79

[Wall Street Men and Wives] 81

[Of Servants] 83

[Of Clothing] 84

[Courtship and Marriage] 86

[City and Country] 87

[Banks] 89

[Of Immigrants] 91

[Of Fashion] 92

[The Sabbath] 94

[Raising Children] 95

[Card Playing] 97

[Education of Women] 100

[Of Slavery] 102

The Ararat Proclamation and Speech (1825) 105

Discourse on the Restoration of the Jews (1845) 125

Address Delivered at the Hebrew Synagogue, in Crosby-Street, New-York, ... to Aid in the Erection of the Temple at Jerusalem (1849) 149.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-167) and index.

ISBN:

0313310440

OCLC:

40163477