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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raphael, Marc Lee, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States--History.

Jews.

Judaism--United States--History.

Judaism.

Jews--Cultural assimilation--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 490 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection focuses on a variety of important themes in the American Jewish and Judaic experience. It opens with essays on early Jewish settlers (1654-1820), the expansion of Jewish life in America (1820-1901), the great wave of eastern European Jewish immigrants (1880-1924), the character of American Judaism between the two world wars, American Jewish life from the end of World War II to the Six-Day War, and the growth of Jews' influence and affluence. The second half of the volume includes essays on Orthodox Jews, the history of Jewish education in America, the rise of Jewish soc

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC:

607766574