Encyclopedia Of American Jewish History

Publisher ABC-CLIO

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2nd Edition 1st Edition

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ABC-CLIO

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Copyright

2007

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9781851096435

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9th Grade - College Senior

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Did you know that until World War I, Chicago had the third largest Jewish population of any city in the world? Did you know that Jews played leading roles in the civil rights movement? Or that Jewish men are over-represented in basketball and boxing? If you didn't know, that is because history books have generally ignored the American Jewish experience until now.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Preface.
Maps.
1: Immigration and Settlement.
2: Sephardic Jews in America.
3: American Jews in the Colonial Period.
4: American Jews in the Revolutionary and Early National Periods.
5: German Jews in America.
6: East European Jewish Immigration.
7: Jewish Immigration to Galveston.
8: Soviet Jewish Immigration.
9: Jewish Identity in America.
10: Demographic and Economic Profiles of Twentieth-Century American Jewry.
11: The Demography of Jews in Twentieth-Century America.
12: The Economic Status of American Jews in the Twentieth Century.
13: Judaism in America.
14: Orthodox Judaism.
15: Reform Judaism.
16: Conservative Judaism.
17: Reconstructionist Judaism.
18: Hasidic Judaism.
19: Women in the Development of American Judaism.
20: Isaac Leeser (1806–1868).
21: David Einhorn (1809–1879).
22: Jewish Communities.
23: The Lower East Side.
24: Brownsville.
25: South Florida.
26: Los Angeles.
27: Chicago.
28: Philadelphia.
29: Jews in the South.
30: Jews in the West.
31: New Mexico.
32: Jews in Small Towns in America.
33: Jewish Agricultural Colonies.
34: Jews in Suburbia.
35: Antisemitism in American.
36: Antisemitism in American Literature before 1960.
37: Leo Max Frank (1884–1915).
38: Henry Ford and the Jews.
39: Antisemitic Violence in Boston and New York during World War II.
40: Antisemitism and Right-Wing Extremist Groups after 1960.
41: African American Antisemitism in the 1990s.
42: The Crown Heights Riot.
43: Zionism in America.
44: American Zionism to the Founding of the State of Israel.
45: Revisionist Zionism in America.
46: Golda Meir (1898–1978).
47: Marie Syrkin (1899–1989).
48: The Holocaust and America.
49: America's Response to Nazism and the Holocaust.
50: Holocaust Survivors and Their Children in America.
51: The Making of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
52: Me
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