A History of the Jews in America

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jul 24, 2013 - History - 1072 pages
Spanning 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.
 

Contents

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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Howard M. Sachar is the author of numerous books, including A History of Israel, A History of the Jews in America, Farewell Espaņa, and Israel and Europe. He is also the editor of the 39-volume The Rise of Israel: A Documentary History. He serves as professor of modern history at George Washington University, is a consultant and lecturer on Middle Eastern affairs for numerous governmental bodies, and lectures widely in the United States and abroad. He lives in Kensington, Maryland.

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