Jews & gentiles in early America : 1654-1800
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Jews & gentiles in early America : 1654-1800
University of Michigan Press, c2005
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Jews and gentiles in early America : 1654-1800
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Yamagata
  Fukushima
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  Kanagawa
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  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
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  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Saga
  Nagasaki
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  Oita
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  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
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  United Kingdom
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-304) and index
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The fascinating story of the Jewish contribution to and participation in early American life Jews and Gentiles in Early America tells the story of the five Jewish communities - New York, Newport, Charleston, Savannah, and Philadelphia - where most of colonial America's small Jewish population lived. How did these communities rise and fall? How did they interact with the larger gentile population? Pencak's five richly detailed community studies explore the forms of anti-Semitism that endured in colonial America. Unlike previous works on American Jewish history that concentrate on individual communities, Pencak's book approaches the topic from the perspective of early American, rather than Jewish, history. His exploration of a strain of popular anti-Semitism in the pre-Revolutionary era describes the persistence of prejudices derived from traditional European society.
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