Description
Book SynopsisDrawing 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.
Trade ReviewSorin's thesis is extremely timely, and his book deserves to be read both widely and closely by our communal elites consumed with the notion that American Jews are hellbent on assimilation. PS Probably the best brief history of American Jews available. -- Mark Stoll Nova Religio
Table of ContentsSeries 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
