United States Jewry, 1776-1985, Volume 1

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Wayne State University Press, 1989 - Jews - 820 pages
This book is written "for scholars and general readers who are curious and intelligent. The plan for these volumes is a simple one. The first unit seeks to justify in detail the reason for writing a multivolume work on American Jewry; the second unit treats of Jews in the early national period, 1775-1840; the third discusses the rise and dominance of the German Jews in America, 1841-1920. Concurrent with the Central European community there is another, the East European, 1852-1920, which is discussed in the fourth unit. These two groups, "Germans" and "Russians" were distinct and separate yet all Jews, natives, Germans, Russians, Poles, Galicians, Rumanians were inestricably united"--Preface.

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