Synopses & Reviews
In a country founded on the principle of religious freedom, with no medieval past, no legal nobility, and no national church, how did anti-Semitism become a presence here? Frederic Cople Jaher considers this question in A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness, the first history of American anti-Semitism from its origins in the ancient world to its first widespread outbreak during the Civil War.
Review
To find evidence of serious anti-Semitism in America for much of the time Jews have lived here, you need to put on knee pads and go searching in the nooks and crannies of history. Frederic Cople Jaher has searchedstrenuously, beginning with the first Jews to arrive in 1654...His writing has a pleasingly solid feel to it, packing in fact after fact.
Synopsis
In a country founded on the principle of religious freedom, with no medieval past, no legal nobility, and no national church, how did anti-Semitism become a presence here? Frederic Cople Jaher considers this question in < i="">
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-324) and index.
About the Author
<>Frederic Cople Jaheris Professor of History at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Among his books are
Doubters and Dissentersand
The Urban Establishment: Upper Strata inBoston, New York, Charleston, Chicago, and Los Angeles.