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A History of the Jews in America Paperback – November 2, 1993

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Spanning 350 years of Jewish experience in this country, A History of the Jews in America is an essential chronicle by the author of The Course of Modern Jewish History.

With impressive scholarship and a riveting sense of detail, Howard M. Sachar tells the stories of Spanish marranos and Russian refugees, of aristocrats and threadbare social revolutionaries, of philanthropists and Hollywood moguls. At the same time, he elucidates the grand themes of the Jewish encounter with America, from the bigotry of a Christian majority to the tensions among Jews of different origins and beliefs, and from the struggle for acceptance to the ambivalence of assimilation.

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"Imbued with comprehensive scholarship and ripe understanding...governed throughout by a judicious temperament ...[this is a] massive, magisterial history."

-- Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Dense and absorbing... not only good history but a contribution to the current debate over American-Israeli relations."

-- The New York Times Book Review

"I have been teaching American history for thirty-eight years, but I was frankly astonished by much of the information contained in Howard Sachar's monumental volume."

-- David Brion Davis, The New Republic

"Sachar is attentive to social, economic, and political history...A deep and fascinating study."

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"Monumental...will undoubtedly stand as the definitive work on the American Jewish experience for many years." --San Francisco Chronicle

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Paperback: 1072 pages
Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (November 2, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0679745300
ISBN-13: 978-0679745303
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 2.2 x 8 inches
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Average Customer Review: 7 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #751,824 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1043 in Books > History > World > Religious > Judaism
- #2625 in Books > History > World > Jewish
- #3901 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Judaism

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An excellent depiction of the struggle of jews to find peace and prosperity.

February 19, 2014

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Howard Sachar hasn't missed a beat in his excellent book. He has captured the struggle of a persecuted people to adapt and find a home in one of the few places in world where they would find freedom and fulfillment. He tells all, the good and the bad. People who have made America the great place it is as will as those who were involved in the darker side of life.

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History alive.

March 11, 2015

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Trying to learn about early Jew to America. My mothers family cane early to America and I have found that her family name maybe Jewish.

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I love this book. I bought countless copies of this book in the past. I bought it again in order to give it to my friend. Though it was an used book, it came in a decent shape and had no problem for being given as a gift. I am glad that I didn't have to spend much more money to buy a new one.

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Andrew D. Oram

A reliable guide and reference

October 17, 2009

I found this book an excellent foundation for understanding the many
faces of American Judaism. I had the opportunity to read the whole
book cover to cover while recovering from an accident, and found that
it fleshed out facets of the Jewish experience I had heard about
elsewhere. Some of my perceptions of history were challenged, all were
deepened. And I still use it as a reference.

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I turned to this book to learn about Jews in colonial America and was annoyed by the obvious errors in it. For instance, on page 20 he cites the Uniform Naturalization Act of 1790 as an act that allowed Jewish colonists in America to be naturalized. You don't have to know much history to catch that a British act passed in 1790, well after American independence, won't have any effect on Jewish "colonists." Yet Sachar, confused, states that "one hundred fifty of them acquired naturalization between 1740 and 1776." Time travel, I suppose. It gets better when you do some poking and find that there was no British act by this name, but there certainly was an American naturalization act that year. It was connected with the Alien and Sedition Acts and had no effect on the situation of American Jews. Yet Sachar says the "The Uniform Naturalization Act -- the first Jewish emancipatory measure to be issued by a modern European government -- in effect acknowledged the existing fact of Jewish security and stability in colonial America."

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