Jews in America [Hardcover]

Abraham J. Karp (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 18, 1998

America's Jewish community is the largest Jewish population in the world today. In this remarkable chronicle, spanning 500 years of settlement in this country, poets, writers, and religious and secular leaders capture in words the spirit of this varied and expressive group. 134 full-color and 90 black-and-white photos.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

A celebration of the Jewish experience in America, this selective panorama weds essays, letters, documents, fiction excerpts and poems with paintings (Larry Rivers, Ben Shahn, Raphael Soyer, Jack Levine) and photographs documenting Jewish life, history and religious observance. The texts include Revolutionary War patriot Haym Solomon's 1778 petition to the Continental Congress; George Washington's supportive letter of 1790 to a Rhode Island congregation; the eloquent 1844 appeal by newspaper editor, judge and diplomat Mordecai Noah, urging the founding of a Jewish nation; and works by poet Emma Lazarus, theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis and Isaac Mayer Wise, the founder of Reform Judaism. Fiction excerpts by Howard Fast, Anzia Yezierska and Henry Roth offer an often sardonic look at the immigrant experience; selections by Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud and Grace Paley depict Jews as an integral part of American society. Karp is a rabbi in New York City.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 376 pages
• Publisher: Universe; First Edition edition (August 18, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0883638940
• ISBN-13: 978-0883638941
• Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 9.9 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.8 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,608,143 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)