A History of the Jews in AmericaSpanning 350 years of Jewish experience in this country, A History of the Jews in America is an essential chronicle by the author of The Course of Modern Jewish History. With impressive scholarship and a riveting sense of detail, Howard M. Sachar tells the stories of Spanish marranos and Russian refugees, of aristocrats and threadbare social revolutionaries, of philanthropists and Hollywood moguls. At the same time, he elucidates the grand themes of the Jewish encounter with America, from the bigotry of a Christian majority to the tensions among Jews of different origins and beliefs, and from the struggle for acceptance to the ambivalence of assimilation. |
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THE AMERICANIZATION OF GERMAN JEwry | 72 |
The EAST EUROPEAN AVALANCHE BEGINS | 116 |
BREAkiNG the iMMIGRANT LOCKStep | 335 |
The CUlture OF AMERICANIZATION | 377 |
THE ERA of THE GREAT DEPRESSION | 428 |
NAZISM AND THE QUEST FOR SANCTUARY | 465 |
CAtASTROPHE AND RENEWAL | 519 |
xWI THE Zionization of AMERICAN JEwry | 563 |
xWii the BiRTH OF ISRAEL | 595 |
XWiii FROM COLD WAR TO BELLE EPOQUE | 620 |
SURVIVAL IN the immicrant city | 140 |
The Care of Ones Own | 150 |
Immigrant Children and Establishment Matrons | 158 |
The Shame of Our Daughters | 164 |
wi social AND CULTURAL FERMENT IN THE IMMIGRANT World | 174 |
Wii THE GERMANJEwish conscience At EFFLORESCENCE | 215 |
WORLD WAR i AND THE CONTEST FOR AMERICANJEWISH | 239 |
THE JEWISH PRESENCE UNDER REAPPRAISAL | 274 |
A Resurgence of NeoAgrarian Nativism | 300 |
THE TRIUMPH OF DEMOCRATIC PLURALISM | 672 |
DEFINING A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE JEWISH STATE | 713 |
A JEWISH IMPACT ON AMERICAN CULTURE | 748 |
At HOME IN AMERICA | 788 |
ETHNICITY AT THE APOGEE | 833 |
AGAIN THE PROMISED LAND | 870 |
A CRISIS OF RECOGNITION | 904 |
Afterword | 933 |
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