The Columbia history of Jews and Judaism in America / edited by Marc Lee Raphael.

Other author Raphael, Marc Lee.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, ©2008.
Descriptionvi, 490 pages ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Jews--United States. --History.
Judaism--United States. --History.
Jews--Cultural assimilation. --United States.

Variant title History of Jews and Judaism in America
Contents America's earliest Jewish settlers, 1654-1820 / Eli Faber -- Expanding Jewish life in America, 1826-1901 / Dianne Ashton -- The great wave : Eastern European Jewish immigration to the United States, 1880-1924 / Eric L. Goldstein -- American Judaism between the two world wars / Jeffrey S. Gurock -- Triumph, accommodation, and resistance : American Jewish life from the end of World War II to the Six-Day War / Riv-Ellen Prell -- Influence and affluence, 1967-2000 / Stephen J. Whitfield -- The ever dying denomination : American Jewish Orthodoxy, 1824-1965 / Kimmy Caplan -- The history of Jewish education in America, 1700-2000 / Melissa R. Klapper -- A regional context for Pacific Jewry, 1880-1930 / William Toll -- Fun and games : the American Jewish social club / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- A multithematic approach to Southern Jewish history / Mark K. Bauman -- American Jewish responses to Nazism and the Holocaust / Rafael Medoff -- Holocaust consciousness and American Jewish politics / Michael E. Staub -- What is American Jewish culture? / Jeffrey Shandler -- Rites of citizenship : Jewish celebrations of the nation / Beth S. Wenger -- A bright new constellation : feminism and American Judaism / Pamela S. Nadell -- Contemporary Jewish thought / Alan T. Levenson -- There's no space like home : the representation of Jewish American life / Linda S. Raphael.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007024758
ISBN9780231132220 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0231132220 (cloth : alk. paper)