Raphael The Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in America

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-50706-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Raphael, Marc Lee

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, by Marc Lee Raphael
Chronological Essays
1. America's Earliest Jewish Settlers, 1654-1820, by Eli Faber
2. Expanding Jewish Life in America, 1826-1901, by Dianne Ashton
3. The Great Wave: Eastern European Jewish Immigration to the United States, 1880-1924, by Eric L. Goldstein
4. American Judaism Between the Two World Wars, by Jeffrey S. Gurock
5. Triumph, Accommodation, and Resistance: American Jewish Life from the End of World War II to the Six-Day War, by Riv-Ellen Prell
6. Influence and Affluence, 1967-2000, by Stephen J. Whitfield
Topical Essays
7. The Ever Dying Denomination: American Jewish Orthodoxy, 1824-1965, by Kimmy Caplan
8. The History of Jewish Education in America, 1700-2000, by Melissa Klapper
9. A Regional Context for Pacific Jewry, 1880-1930, by William Toll
10. Fun and Games: The American Jewish Social Club, by Jenna Weissman Joselit
11. A Multithematic Approach to Southern Jewish History, by Mark K. Bauman
12. American Jewish Responses to Nazism and the Holocaust, by Rafael Medoff
13. Holocaust Consciousness and American Jewish Politics, by Michael E. Staub
14. What Is American Jewish Culture?, by Jeffrey Shandler
15. Rites of Citizenship: Jewish Celebrations of the Nation, by Beth S. Wenger
16. A Bright New Constellation: Feminism and American Judaism, by Pamela S. Nadell
17. Contemporary Jewish Thought, by Alan T. Levenson
18. There's No Space Like Home: The Representation of Jewish American Life, by Linda S. Raphael
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marc Lee Raphael is the Nathan and Sophia Gumenick Professor of Judaic Studies, professor of religious studies, chairman of the Department of Religious Studies, and director of the Program in Judaic Studies at the College of William and Mary. He will publish his memoir, Diary of a Los Angeles Jew, 1947-1972: Autobiography as Autofiction, in 2008 and is beginning a history of the synagogue in America for New York University Press. He and his wife, Linda Schermer Raphael, live in Washington, D.C.