How America met the Jews
By: Hasia Diner
Series: Brown Judaic studies -- number 360; Brown Judaic studies -- no. 360.
Publisher: Brown Judaic Studies
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Providence, Rhode Island
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781946527028; 9781946527042
Subjects: Jews; History; Immigrants; Emigration and immigration; Ethnic relations
Description: From the 1820s through the 1920s, nearly ninety percent of all Jews who left Europe moved to the United States. In this new book from Hasia Diner, she focuses on the realities of race, immigration, color, money, economic development, politics, and religion in America that shaped its history and made it such an attractive destination for Jews. Additionally, she approaches the question from the perspective of an America that sought out white immigrants to help stoke economic development and that valued religion as a force for morality. These tendencies converged and provided a situation where Jews could experience life in ways impossible elsewhere.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a propitious meeting; title: Jewish newcomers in a nation of (white) immigrants; title: Jews along America's color line; title: A faith community in a nation of believers: American religion makes a place for the Jews; title: More than bread and more than roses: Jews in the land of materialism; title: The politics of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum: Jews and the American party system; title: Last words: the historic contexts of greetings.