Forged in America : how Irish-Jewish encounters shaped a nation / edited by Harisa R. Diner and Miriam Nyhan Grey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Diner, Hasia R., editor.

Nyhan Grey, Miriam, editor.

Series:

Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history.

Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish Americans--History.

Irish Americans.

Irish Americans--Relations with Jews.

Jews--United States--History.

Jews.

United States.

United States--Ethnic relations--History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 269 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Examines how Irish and Jewish Americans defined their place in a complex society.The story of America is the story of the unlikely groups of immigrants brought together by their sharedoutsider status. Urban American life took much of its shape from the arrival of Irish and Jewishimmigrants in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and Forged in America is the story of how IrishAmerica and Jewish America collided, cooperated, and collaborated in the cities where they made theirhomes, all the while shaping American identity and nationhood as we know it.Bringing together leading scholars in their fields, this volume sheds light on the underexplored historiesof Irish and Jewish collaboration. While mutual antagonism was clearly evident, so too wereopportunities for cooperation, as settled Irish immigrants served to model, mentor, and mediate forJewish newcomers. Together, the chapters in this volume draw fascinating portraits that show mutualityin action and demonstrate its cultural reverberations.

Contents:

Foreword: A Good Place to Meet

Introduction: Forged in America

1. A Singular Encounter: Irish and Jews in Their American Home

2. The Right to Choose: The Public Health and Birth Control Movements of Lillian Wald and Margaret Sanger

3. "Tammany's Chosen People": How the Irish Courted the Jewish Vote in Progressive-Era New York

4. Jews, Paul O'Dwyer, and a New York Life

5. Defending Literary Genius: James Joyce's Ulysses on Trial

6. Laughter and Love between the Irish and the Jews

7. Irish-Jewish Couples in American Film and Television

8. Playing the Nation: Constructing Cultural Revivals in the Irish and the Jewish Diaspora

9. The Irish, the Jews, and Wilson's "Self-Determination"

10. A Tradition of Acceptance: Jews and Their Basketball Players at an Irish Catholic College.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-4798-2610-3

OCLC:

1402029304