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The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000 / Hasia R. Diner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Jewish communities in the modern world ; 4.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.Description: 1 online resource (x, 437 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780520939929
  • 0520939921
  • 1597346950
  • 9781597346955
  • 9786612358562
  • 6612358564
  • 0520248481
  • 9780520248489
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000.DDC classification:
  • 973/.04924 22
LOC classification:
  • E184.35 .D55 2004eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
American Jewish origins : 1654-1776 -- Becoming American : 1776-1820 -- A century of migration : 1820-1924 -- A century of Jewish life in America : 1820-1924 -- A century of Jewish politics : 1829-1920 -- At home and beyond : 1924-1948 -- A golden age? : 1948-1967 -- In search of continuity : 1967-2000.
Summary: Since Peter Stuyvesant greeted with enmity the first group of Jews to arrive on the docks of New Amsterdam in 1654, Jews have entwined their fate and fortunes with that of the United States--a project marked by great struggle and great promise. What this interconnected destiny has meant for American Jews and how it has defined their experience among the world's Jews is fully chronicled in this work, a comprehensive and finely nuanced history of Jews in the United States from 1654 through the end of the past century. Hasia R. Diner traces Jewish participation in American history--from the communi.
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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)119330

Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-407) and index.

Print version record.

American Jewish origins : 1654-1776 -- Becoming American : 1776-1820 -- A century of migration : 1820-1924 -- A century of Jewish life in America : 1820-1924 -- A century of Jewish politics : 1829-1920 -- At home and beyond : 1924-1948 -- A golden age? : 1948-1967 -- In search of continuity : 1967-2000.

Since Peter Stuyvesant greeted with enmity the first group of Jews to arrive on the docks of New Amsterdam in 1654, Jews have entwined their fate and fortunes with that of the United States--a project marked by great struggle and great promise. What this interconnected destiny has meant for American Jews and how it has defined their experience among the world's Jews is fully chronicled in this work, a comprehensive and finely nuanced history of Jews in the United States from 1654 through the end of the past century. Hasia R. Diner traces Jewish participation in American history--from the communi.

English.