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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raphael, Marc Lee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States--History.

Jews.

United States.

History.

Judaism--United States--History.

Judaism.

Jews--Cultural assimilation--United States.

Jews--Cultural assimilation.

Physical Description:

vi, 490 pages ; 25 cm

Other Title:

History of Jews and Judaism in America

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231132220

0231132220

OCLC:

145146485