The Jew in the American World: A Source BookJacob 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. |
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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 |
639 | |