Jews in America
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At Home Only with God: Believing Jews and Their Children on the Lower East Side in the 1930s
by Arthur Hertzberg  Book News Annotation Photographs by Arnold Eagle document the lives of religious Jews and their children during the 1930s, depicting bearded scholars, boys in cheder, mothers lighting the shabbat candles, and other scenes. Hertzberg (humanities, New York U.), in an eight-...
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Jews and the New American Scene
by Seymour Mart Lipset Publisher Comments Will American Jews survive their success? Or will the United States' uniquely hospitable environment lead inexorably to their assimilation and loss of cultural identity? This is the conundrum thatSeymour Lipset and Earl Raab explore in their wise and...
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Israel Through Jewish-Amer. Imagin: A Survey of Jewish-American Literature on Israel, 1928-1995 (Suny Series, Modern Jewish Literature & Culture)
by Andrew Furman Publisher Comments Examines eight Jewish-American writers -- Meyer Levin, Leon Uris, Saul Bellow, Hugh Nissenson, Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, Anne Roiphe, and Tova Reich -- who have "imagined" Israel in their work.<P>Analyzing a wide array of Jewish-American fiction on...
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Jew Boy
by Alan Kaufman Publisher Comments Jew Boy tells the story of a young boy growing up in the complex shadow of his mother’s survival of the Holocaust. He struggles to comprehend what it means to be Jewish as he deals with the demons haunting his mother and attempts to escape his...
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Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939
by Daniel Soyer Publisher Comments How did the vast number of Jewish immigrants from different regions of Eastern Europe form their American ethnic identity? In his answer to this question, Daniel Soyer examines how Jewish immigrant hometown associations (landsmanshaftn) transformed old...
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Jewish Life & American Culture
by Sylvia Bara Fishman Publisher Comments Jews in the United States are uniquely American in their connections to Jewish religion and ethnicity. Sylvia Barack Fishman in her groundbreaking book, Jewish Life and American Culture, shows that contemporary Jews have created a hybrid new form of...
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Adapting to Abundance: Jewish Immigrants, Mass Consumption, and the Search for American Identity (Columbia History of Urban Life)
by Andrew R Heinze Publisher Comments < P> -- < I> Choice< /I> < /P>...
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The Miracle of Intervale Avenue: the Story of a Jewish Congregation in the South Bronx
by Jack Kugelmass Publisher Comments A classic ethnography of American Jewish life....
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Saving Remnants Feeling Jewish in Americ
by Sara Bershtel Publisher Comments This provocative book argues that in America today, being Jewish is just another way of being American. Based on hundreds of interviews with American Jews of the postwar generation ranging from the least involved to the most fervent, Saving Remnants...
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Jews Against Prejudice: American Jews and the Fight for Civil Liberties (Columbia American History)
by Stuart Svonkin Publisher Comments America's dark history of anti-Semitism, racism, and ethnic bigotry -- and many of the efforts to combat such prejudice -- has received growing attention in recent years. Yet one of the most important stories in America's struggle to overcome ethnic and...
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Judaism's Encounter with American Sports
by Jeffrey S Gurock Publisher Comments The experience of sports participation is used to illuminate modern Jewish religious conflict and accommodation to America, underscoring basic religious dilemmas....
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Jewish Americans (Coming to America)
by Robert Stein Publisher Comments 1st ed. for the U.S., its territories and dependencies, and Canada. Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-125) and index....
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German-Jewish Legacy in America, 1938-1988: From Bildung to the Bill of Rights
by Abraham J Peck
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The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South
by Eli N Evans
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New York's Jewish Jews: The Orthodox Community in the Interwar Years (Modern Jewish Experience)
by Jenna Weiss Joselit
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American Judaism in Transition: The Secularization of a Religious Community
by Gerhard Falk
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Followers of the trail :Jewish working-class radicals in America
by David Leviatin
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World of Our Fathers Journey of the East
by Irving Howe
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Friends, Colleagues & Neighbors: Jewish Contributions to American History
by David Rausch
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Saturday School How One Town Kept Out
by Tom Keating
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