The American Jewish Experience

by Sarna, Jonathan D.

• ISBN13: 9780841909342
• ISBN10: 0841909342
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1986-04-01
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
The American Jewish Community Takes Shape	p. 3
	p. 5
The American Colonial Jew: a Study in Acculturation	p. 6
	p. 18
The Impact of the American Revolution on American Jews	p. 20
	p. 29
The 1820s: American Jewry Comes of Age	p. 31
For Further Reading	p. 38
The """"German Period"""" in American Jewish History	p. 41
	p. 43
German-Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century America	p. 45
	p. 60
Ulysses S. Grant and the Jews	p. 62
	p. 72
A Business Elite: German-Jewish Financiers in Nineteenth-Century New York	p. 73
	p. 87
Reform Judaism and the Unitarian Challenge	p. 89
For Further Reading	p. 97
The Era of East European Immigration	p. 99
	p. 101
Immigrant Jews on the Lower East Side of New York: 1880-1914	p. 102
	p. 118
Germans Versus Russians	p. 120
	p. 133
Immigrant Women and Consumer Protest: the New York City Kosher Meat Boycott of 1902	p. 135
	p. 147
The Kehillah Vision and the Limits of Community	p. 149
	p. 156
The Jewishness of the Jewish Labor Movement in the United States	p. 158
For Further Reading	p. 167
Coming to Terms with America	p. 171
	p. 173
Henry Ford and the International Jew	p. 175
	p. 191
The Emergence of the American Synagogue	p. 193
	p. 209
Zionism an American Experience	p. 211
	p. 222
The Midpassage of American Jewry	p. 224
For Further Reading	p. 234
The Holocaust and Beyond	p. 237
	p. 239
Who Shall Bear Guilt for the Holocaust? the Human Dilemma	p. 240
	p. 259
At Home in America	p. 260
	p. 267
The Jew Who Didn't Get Away: on the Possibility of an American Jewish Culture	p. 269
	p. 282
American Jews: Their Story Continues	p. 284
For Further Reading	p. 294
	p. 296
	p. 297
Reference Sources in American Jewish History	p. 298
Index	p. 300
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