Imagining early American Jews / Michael Hoberman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoberman, Michael, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States--History.

Jews.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

'Imagining Early American Jews' explores the popular views of Jewish American history, especially in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It considers how Americans have imagined and commemorated the Jewish experience of colonization, the frontier, the American Revolution, and the Civil War and highlights the interpretation of historical relationships between Jews and Native Americans and Jews and Blacks in light of current political developments.

Contents:

Early American synagogues curated and commemorated

Imagining Jewish-Native American encounters

Searching for Jews and Blacks in two antebellum Southern house museums

Fictionalizing Civil War Jews

Genealogical Journeys

Augmenting Ararat.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 5, 2025).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-780462-4

0-19-780460-8

OCLC:

1535746978