The Jew in the American World: A Source Book

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Jacob Rader Marcus
Wayne State University Press, 1996 - 663 páginas

This important volume provides the first complete single-volume reference source for American Jewish history.

The Jew in the American World is a complete documentary history of the Jewish people in North America from the late sixteenth century to the present. A compilation of previously published archival sources chronicling the evolving domestic, religious, and political experiences of the Jews, this important volume provides the first complete single-volume reference source for American Jewish history.
Once again, Jacob Rader Marcus has created a vivid and insightful portrait of the life and culture of Jews. He has compiled materials--the majority of which were written by Jews culled from diverse sources and ranging in subject from the establishment of the first Jewish day school in the mid-eighteenth century to the plight of Ethiopian Jews in 1991. Many articles highlight the role played by women in the community and the significant contributions made by various Jewish figures. The ideal companion to Marcus's United States Jewry, 1776-1985, The Jew in the American World is an invaluable work, essential for studying and understanding the American Jew.

 

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PART I
25
IV
32
V
38
LIVING AS A JEW IN A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY 16581760
40
HOW THEY Made a Living 17541763
50
Contents
56
THE COLONIAL JEWISH COMMUNITY 1728 TO CA 1770
57
IV
65
THE ATTEMPTS TO CREATE A NATIONAL AMERICAN JEWISH
228
JUDAISM UNDER THE GERMANS 18731902
238
JEWISH EDUCATION AND CULTURE IN THE GERMAN PERIOD
249
AMERICAN Jewish PhilanthROPY IN THE GERMAN PERIOD
261
HOME AND SOCIALITY 18581897
278
EVERY JEW IS Responsible for His Fellow Jew
286
Contents
292
PART IV
295

JEWISH SOCIAL LIFE IN THE NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
79
PART II
91
Moses M Hays Refuses to Sign a Discriminatory Test Oath July 11 1776
95
New York State Is the First State to Emancipate Jews April 20 1777
96
Philadelphia Jewry Asks for Political Equality December 23 1783
97
The Northwest Ordinance Implicitly Emancipates Jews in All New States July 13 1787
99
Constitution of the United States 17781791
100
Sunday Legislation in New York State February 12 1788
101
Jacob Henry Pleads for Political Equality December 6 1809
102
JEWS IN THE GENERAL COMMUNITY 17801816
105
The Gentiles of Philadelphia Help the Synagog April 30 1788
107
Newport Jews Exchange Letters with President George Washington 1790
108
Mordecai M Noahs Dismissal from Office because of His Jewish Religion April 25 1816
110
THE CULTURAL LEVEL OF AMERICAN JEWRY 18101839
115
Grace Seixas Nathan Poet 1810 and on
116
Penina Moïse Poet 1820 and on
117
Rachel Mordecai Lazarus an Intellectual 18271838
118
Isaac Gomez Jr Anthologist 1829
121
A Poem by Joseph Lyons May 23 1834
122
MAKING A LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES 17821840
123
Haym Salomon Broker to the Office of Finance November 16 1782
124
Abraham Seixas Advertises His Wares 1794
125
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITIES 18101812
131
RELIGIOUS LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES 17871826
139
The Early National Period 17761840
141
EDUCATING YOUNG JEWS 18211850s
147
JEWISH CULTURE 18201840
157
SOCIAL WELFARE ACTIVITY 18191837
164
A JEWISH FAMILY IN THE OLD SOUTH 18121837
171
THE KINSHIP OF ALL JEWS 18181840
177
PART III
189
JEWHATRED AND GENERAL Grant 18621870
196
THE JEW AS Citizen 18621888
203
THE SECULAR CULTURE OF THE AMERICAN JEW 18551896
210
THE JEW AND THE ECONOMY 18611895
219
THE EAST EUROPEAN JEW AS Citizen 19181924
303
THE NEW IMMIGRANTSTHE EAST EUROPEANSACQUIRE
315
THE EAST EUROPEANS STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE 18891924
321
THE KEHILLAH OF NEW YORK CITY AND THE AMERICAN
332
THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF THE EAST EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS
340
Jewish EDUCATION AND CULTURE IN THE WORLD OF
349
THE EAST EUROPEAN NEWCOMERS HELP THEMSELVES
363
THE SOCIAL Life of the EAST EUROPEAN JEWISH IMMIGRANT
375
PART V
393
JEWS AND GENTILES 19281958
406
Jews and the World of the Secular Sciences 19441955
414
THE ECONOMIC WORLD OF THE AMERICAN JEW 19221966
422
THE OVERALL STRUCTURED COMMUNITY LOCALLY
429
THE JEWISH RELIGION AND ITS ADHERENTS 19371960
435
POLITICAL RIGHTS OF AMERICAN JEWS 17761809
439
In Orthodoxy the Woman Is Not Inferior
441
JEWISH EDUCATION AND CULTURE 1940S?1966
447
PHILANTHROPY AND PHILANTHROPISTS 19251986
458
THE JEWISH SOCIAL BACKGROUND 1950s1960
472
THE HOLOCAUST ISRAEL AND AMERICAN JEWRY 19451950
480
PART VI
495
THE JEW AS CITIZEN 1970s1990
505
THE SECULAR CULTURE OF THE AMERICAN JEW 19761978
518
MAKING A LIVING IN AMERICA 19731990
525
THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY 19641986
538
AMERICAN JEWISH RELIGION ON THE EVE OF
546
JEWISH EDUCATION AND CULTURE 19611968
563
MILLIONAIRES AND PAUPERS 19651984
572
PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES 19641989
580
ISRAEL VATICAN II
591
THE FUTURE
614
Source Notes
623
Index
639
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Jacon Rader Marcus was the founder and director of the American Jewish Archives at the Hebrew Union College/Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, where he was a member of the faculty for more than seventy years. He authored numerous books on American and European history, including The Jew in the Medieval World, The Colonial American Jew, 1493-1776, and United States of Jewry, 1776-1985.

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