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New Israel/New England : Jews and Puritans in early America / Michael Hoberman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoberman, Michael, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--New England--History--17th century.
- Jews.
- Jews--New England--History--18th century.
- Puritans--New England--History--17th century.
- Puritans.
- Puritans--New England--History--18th century.
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- United States.
- New England--Ethnic relations.
- New England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 280 p. ) ill. ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The New England Puritans' fascination with the legacy of the Jewish religion has been well documented, but their interactions with actual Jews have escaped sustained historical attention.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction: "We Shall be Friends": The European Background for Puritan Judeocentrism
- Chapter 1. "Jews, Turks . . . and Anti-Christians": Alien Encounters with Puritan Hebraism
- Chapter 2. "New-England is Seldom Wholly without them": Boston's Frazon Brothers and the Limits of Puritan Zeal
- Chapter 3. "A Jew Rarely Comes Over to us but he Brings Treasures with him": The Conversion and Harvard Career of Judah Monis
- Chapter 4. "A Handsome Assembly of People": Jewish Settlement and the Refinement of New England Culture
- Chapter 5. "An Openness to Candour": Scholarly Ecumenicism in Pre-Revolutionary Newport
- Chapter 6. "A most Valuable Citizen": Moses Michael Hays and the Modernization of Boston
- Conclusion: "Gone are the Living but the Dead Remain": The Jewish Legacy in Nineteenth-Century New England
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-010-8
- OCLC:
- 794700811
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