Jews In America
Subtitle: A Short History
Publisher: Basic Books, Inc.
Published: 1965
Place of publication: United States of America
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 198
Description: This engaging book describes what has happened to Jews in America - and what Jews have helped make happen to America - from colonial times to the present.
Showing how the American Jewish community today is a composite structure, built up by many successive waves of immigration, the account begins in 1654 with the first immigration of Jews (twenty-three in number). It then follows each major group - Sephardic Jews, German Jews, East European Jews - from their homes in the Old World to their establishment in the New.
Their adaptation to American circumstances, thwir relations with non-Jews and with one another, and their impact on American life are retraced and illustrated. A special chapter, on a period to close to be well known, tells of the victims of Hitler, both the German refugees of the 1930's and the postwar survivors of the concentration camps.
Table of contents: label: European Prologue
title: 1; title: 1; label: Beginnings: 1654-1820
title: 6; label: 2; label: Wayfaring Strangers
title: 40; label: 3; label: The Golden Land
title: 76; label: 4; label: Anti-Semitism
title: 104; label: 5; label: The Quick and the Dead
title: 119; label: 6; label: Here and Now
title: 157; label: Suggestions For Further Reading
title: 189; label: Index
title: 191