Evangelizing the Chosen People
Subtitle: Missions to the Jews in America, 1880 - 2000 (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 9, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780807825662
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Christian mission & evangelism; History of religion; Jewish studies; Judaism; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Judaism - Sacred Writings; Judaism And Christianity; Missionary Activities Of Specific Denominations; United States; Religion - Church Life; Missions to Jews; Religion; USA; Christian Ministry - Missions; Christianity - History - General; Jewish - General; Missions & Missionary Work; United States - 20th Century; Christian Ministry - Evangelism; Christian missions; History; Jews
First sentence: In the 1890s, an unusual religious group convened on the Lower East Side of New York: immigrant Jews who had accepted the Christian faith yet continued to retain Jewish rites and customs.