Description
Book SynopsisIn A Time for Planting, Eli Faber recounts these earliest days of Jewish life in America, as Jews from Lisbon to Amsterdam to London extended the wanderings of their centuries-old diaspora.
Trade ReviewBecause of the small numbers involved, Eli Faber in this work can follow families, specific communities, and even individuals in gratifying detail. Throughout, his focus is on the persisting tension between preserving the distinctive community on the one hand and, on the other, seeking some identification with the surrounding society... In workmanlike prose Faber demonstrates how patterns of accommodation and survival were set well before large numbers of Jews began arriving in this latter day promised land. -- Edwin S. Gaustad Journal of American Ethnic History
Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Origins and Antecedents
Chapter 2. The Atlantic World of Colonial Jewry
Chapter 3. Community
Chapter 4. Fitting In
Chapter 5. The Jewish Communities of the Early Republic
Chapter 6. A Second Jerusalem?
Conclusion: The Significance of Early American Jewry
Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Index
