The Jews of the United States : 1654 to 2000

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The Jews of the United States : 1654 to 2000

Hasia R. Diner

(Jewish communities in the modern world, 4)(S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies)

University of California Press, 2006, c2004

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The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000

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"First paperback printing 2006"--T.p. verso

Later printing lacks publication year

Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-407) and index

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Since Peter Stuyvesant greeted with enmity the first group of Jews to arrive on the docks of New Amsterdam in 1654, Jews have entwined their fate and fortunes with that of the United States - a project marked by great struggle and great promise. What this interconnected destiny has meant for American Jews and how it has defined their experience among the world's Jews is fully chronicled in this work, a comprehensive and finely nuanced history of Jews in the United States from 1654 through the end of the past century. Hasia R. Diner traces Jewish participation in American history - from the communities that sent formal letters of greeting to George Washington; to the three thousand Jewish men who fought for the Confederacy and the ten thousand who fought in the Union army; and, to the Jewish activists who devoted themselves to the labor movement and the civil rights movement. Diner portrays this history as a constant process of negotiation, undertaken by ordinary Jews who wanted at one and the same time to be Jews and full Americans. Accordingly, Diner draws on both American and Jewish sources to explain the chronology of American Jewish history, the structure of its communal institutions, and the inner dynamism that propelled it. Her work documents the major developments of American Judaism - he economic, social, cultural, and political activities of the Jews who immigrated to and settled in America, as well as their descendants - and shows how these grew out of both a Jewish and an American context. She also demonstrates how the equally compelling urges to maintain Jewishness and to assimilate gave American Jewry the particular character that it retains to this day in all its subtlety and complexity.

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Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1. THE EARLIEST JEWISH COMMUNITIES 1. American Jewish Origins: 1654--1776 2. Becoming American: 1776--1820 PART 2. THE PIVOTAL CENTURY 3. A Century of Migration: 1820--1924 4. A Century of Jewish Life in America: 1820--1924 5. A Century of Jewish Politics: 1829--1920 PART 3. TWENTIETH-CENTURY JOURNEYS 6. At Home and Beyond: 1924--1948 7. A Golden Age? 1948--1967 8. In Search of Continuity: 1967--2000 Notes Bibliography Index

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