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The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000 (Paperback, New ed)
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The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000 (Paperback, New ed)
Series: Jewish Communities in the Modern World, 4
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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 communities that sent formal letters of greeting to George
Washington; to the three thousand Jewish men who fought for the
Confederacy and the ten thousand who fought in the Union army; and,
to the Jewish activists who devoted themselves to the labor
movement and the civil rights movement. Diner portrays this history
as a constant process of negotiation, undertaken by ordinary Jews
who wanted at one and the same time to be Jews and full Americans.
Accordingly, Diner draws on both American and Jewish sources to
explain the chronology of American Jewish history, the structure of
its communal institutions, and the inner dynamism that propelled
it. Her work documents the major developments of American Judaism -
he economic, social, cultural, and political activities of the Jews
who immigrated to and settled in America, as well as their
descendants - and shows how these grew out of both a Jewish and an
American context. She also demonstrates how the equally compelling
urges to maintain Jewishness and to assimilate gave American Jewry
the particular character that it retains to this day in all its
subtlety and complexity.
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