Tradition transformed : the Jewish experience in America
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Tradition transformed : the Jewish experience in America
（The American moment）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p.255-283) and index
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ISBN 9780801854460
Description
Throughout American history, even in colonial and revolutionary times, Jews have found America generally hospitable. Yet even in this relatively receptive country, which essentially replaced Israel as the "promise land", there were vexing quesions for Jews - questions about the costs of freedom and mobility, especially with regard to the erosion of Jewish tradition and distinctiveness. In "Tradition Transformed", a one-volume history of the Jewish experience in America, Gerald Sorin argues that "acculturation" and not "assimilation" best describes the experience of Jewish Americans from their arrival in the American colonies to their lives in the United States today. American Jews, Sorin explains, have maintained their unique ethnic characteristics yet have become part of mainstream, middle-class American life. Sorin also shows how the large migration of Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe in the late 19th century made a lasting impact upon how other Americans imagine, understand and relate to Jewish Americans and their cultural contributions today.
Drawing together all aspects of American Jewish history, this concise volume deals with the transformation of a people, their religion, their move into trade and commerce, their political commitments domestically and internationally (especially after the Holocaust), and their contributions to education and culture.
Table of Contents
Series Editor's Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Perspectives and Prospects
Chapter 2. The Threshold of Liberation, 1654-1820
Chapter 3. The Age of Reform, 1820-1880
Chapter 4. The Eastern European Cultural Heritage and Mass Migration to the United States, 1880-1920
Chapter 5. Transplanted in America: The Urban Experience
Chapter 6. Transplanted in America: Smaller Cities and Towns
Chapter 7. Jewish Labor, American Politics
Chapter 8. Varieties of Jewish Belief and Behavior
Chapter 9. Power and Principle: Jewish Participation in American Domestic Politics and Foreign Affairs
Chapter 10. Mobility, Politics, and the Construction of a Jewish American Identity
Chapter 11. Almost at Home in America, 1920-1945
Chapter 12. American Jewry Regroups, 1945-1970
Chapter 13. Israel, the Holocaust, and Echoes of Anti-Semitism in Jewish American Consciousness, 1960-1995
Chapter 14. The Ever-Disappearing People
Bibliographical Essay
Index
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: pbk. ISBN 9780801854477
Description
Throughout American history, from the colonial era to the present, Jews have found America generally hospitable. Yet even in this relatively receptive country, which essentially replaced Israel as the "promised land," there have been vexing questions for Jews-questions about the costs of freedom and mobility, especially with regard to the erosion of Jewish tradition and distinctiveness. In this one-volume history of the Jewish experience in America, Gerald Sorin argues that, from colonial times to the present, "acculturation" and not "assimilation" has best described the experience of Jewish Americans. American Jews, Sorin explains, have maintained their unique ethnic characteristics yet have become part of mainstream, middle-class American life. Sorin also shows how the large migration of Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth century made a lasting impact on how other Americans imagine, understand, and relate to Jewish Americans and their cultural contributions today.
Drawing together all aspects of American Jewish history, this concise volume deals with the transformation of a people, their religion, their move into trade and commerce, their political commitments domestically and internationally (especially after the Holocaust), and their contributions to education and culture.
Table of Contents
Series Editor's Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Perspectives and Prospects
Chapter 2. The Threshold of Liberation, 1654-1820
Chapter 3. The Age of Reform, 1820-1880
Chapter 4. The Eastern European Cultural Heritage and Mass Migration to the United States, 1880-1920
Chapter 5. Transplanted in America: The Urban Experience
Chapter 6. Transplanted in America: Smaller Cities and Towns
Chapter 7. Jewish Labor, American Politics
Chapter 8. Varieties of Jewish Belief and Behavior
Chapter 9. Power and Principle: Jewish Participation in American Domestic Politics and Foreign Affairs
Chapter 10. Mobility, Politics, and the Construction of a Jewish American Identity
Chapter 11. Almost at Home in America, 1920-1945
Chapter 12. American Jewry Regroups, 1945-1970
Chapter 13. Israel, the Holocaust, and Echoes of Anti-Semitism in Jewish American Consciousness, 1960-1995
Chapter 14. The Ever-Disappearing People
Bibliographical Essay
Index
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