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Jews on the frontier : religion and mobility in nineteenth-century America / Shari Rabin.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: North American religionsPublisher: New York : New York University Press, [2017]Description: 1 online resource (viii, 193 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781479850433
  • 1479850438
  • 9781479869855
  • 1479869856
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 296.0973/09034 23
LOC classification:
  • BM205 .R315 2017
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Judaism, America, Mobility -- Part I. Movement and Belonging -- 1. Wandering Sons of Israel: Europe, America, and the Politics of Jewish Mobility -- 2. Reminding Myself That I Am a Jew: Voluntarism and Social Life -- Part II. The Lived Religion of American Jews -- 3. I Prefer Choice Myself: Family and the State -- 4. 'Tis in the Spirit Not in the Form: Material Culture and Popular Theology -- Part III. Creating an American Judaism -- 5. A Congregation of Strangers: The Mobile Infrastructure -- 6. The Empire of Our Religion: The Mobile Imaginary -- Conclusion: The Spirit of '77 -- Notes -- Index
Summary: 'Jews on the Frontier' is a religious history of the United States that begins in an unexpected place: on the road with mobile Jews. It follows them out of eastern cities and into the American frontier, where they found unprecedented economic opportunity but also anonymity, loneliness, instability, mistrust, scarcity, and diversity, all of which complicated the many legal obligations of traditional Jewish life.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1497342

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Judaism, America, Mobility -- Part I. Movement and Belonging -- 1. Wandering Sons of Israel: Europe, America, and the Politics of Jewish Mobility -- 2. Reminding Myself That I Am a Jew: Voluntarism and Social Life -- Part II. The Lived Religion of American Jews -- 3. I Prefer Choice Myself: Family and the State -- 4. 'Tis in the Spirit Not in the Form: Material Culture and Popular Theology -- Part III. Creating an American Judaism -- 5. A Congregation of Strangers: The Mobile Infrastructure -- 6. The Empire of Our Religion: The Mobile Imaginary -- Conclusion: The Spirit of '77 -- Notes -- Index

'Jews on the Frontier' is a religious history of the United States that begins in an unexpected place: on the road with mobile Jews. It follows them out of eastern cities and into the American frontier, where they found unprecedented economic opportunity but also anonymity, loneliness, instability, mistrust, scarcity, and diversity, all of which complicated the many legal obligations of traditional Jewish life.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 21, 2022).