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"Jews in America, in Hertzberg's contentious, continually surprising history, faced deep-rooted anti-Semitism. By overcoming it, partly through assimilation, he asserts, American Jews have nearly lost their spiritual identity," PW commented.
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This insightful and provocative volume reinterprets the American Jewish experience, stressing continuities through time, the uneasiness of the Jewish encounter with America, the community's poor, uncultured, and antireligious roots, and the development of "Jewishness" in place of traditional Judaism. Hertzberg, a historian and intellectual, writes engagingly and presents American Jews with a "usable past." He eschews filiopietism and implicitly challenges the "at-home-in-America" theme that characterizes previous one-volume accounts. But much is left out of this history; some broad generalizations demand serious qualification; and--worst of all--errors abound. Not only are names, dates, and details wrong, but a major episode, a supposed 1854 court suit by Isaac M. Wise, never happened. While this is a stimulating work that raises significant questions, it must be used with caution. Still, for most libraries. Jewish Book Club main selection.-- Jonathan D. Sarna, Hebrew Union Coll.
Jewish Inst. of Religion, Cincinnati
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"Jews in America, in Hertzberg's contentious, continually surprising history, faced deep-rooted anti-Semitism. By overcoming it, partly through assimilation, he asserts, American Jews have nearly lost their spiritual identity," PW commented.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
This insightful and provocative volume reinterprets the American Jewish experience, stressing continuities through time, the uneasiness of the Jewish encounter with America, the community's poor, uncultured, and antireligious roots, and the development of "Jewishness" in place of traditional Judaism. Hertzberg, a historian and intellectual, writes engagingly and presents American Jews with a "usable past." He eschews filiopietism and implicitly challenges the "at-home-in-America" theme that characterizes previous one-volume accounts. But much is left out of this history; some broad generalizations demand serious qualification; and--worst of all--errors abound. Not only are names, dates, and details wrong, but a major episode, a supposed 1854 court suit by Isaac M. Wise, never happened. While this is a stimulating work that raises significant questions, it must be used with caution. Still, for most libraries. Jewish Book Club main selection.-- Jonathan D. Sarna, Hebrew Union Coll.
Jewish Inst. of Religion, Cincinnati
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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New York, United States, German Jews, American Jews, American Jewish, New Amsterdam, Eastern Europe, Civil War, New England, American Jewry, Lower East Side, East Europeans, Isaac Mayer Wise, North America, Reform Judaism, European Jews, American Revolution, First World War, German Jewish, Holy Land, Rhode Island, Second World War, State of Israel, Central Europe, Haym Salomon New!
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No one knows when the first Jew arrived in North America. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
older settlers, immigrant ghetto Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, German Jews, American Jews, American Jewish, New Amsterdam, Eastern Europe, Civil War, New England, American Jewry, Lower East Side, East Europeans, Isaac Mayer Wise, North America, Reform Judaism, European Jews, American Revolution, First World War, German Jewish, Holy Land, Rhode Island, Second World War, State of Israel, Central Europe, Haym Salomon New!
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