Title: Jews in America: from New Amsterdam to the Yiddish stage /
Authors: Corrsin, Stephen D.; Seigel, Amanda; Benson, Kenneth C.; Sarna, Jonathan D.; New York Public Library.
Publisher: The New York Public Library, in association with D Giles Limited, London,
Year: 2012
Subjects: New York Public Library Exhibitions.; Jews United States History.; Jews United States Emigration and immigration.; Jews United States Politics and government.; Jews Cultural assimilation United States.; Judaism United States History; Jews in public life United States.; Antisemitism United States History.; Jews America History.; United States History Jews.; United States Ethnic relations.
Contents: Discovery -- New Christians, conversion and the Inquisition : the Dutch and the Portuguese in Brazil, Suriname and the Caribbean -- Arriving in New Amsterdam -- and then, New York -- Jewish Indians, Puritans and Quakers, the Christian millennium and the Hope of Israel -- Communities and constitutions in colonial North America -- The long nineteenth century of the Jews in America : The Civil War ; Religious developments ; Community ; Yiddish popular culture: literature, theater and the press.