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.
目錄:
Prologue
A FOOTHOLD IN THE EARLY AMERICAS
A Transplanted Sephardic Heritage
A Precarious North American Beachhead
A Widening Security Under the Union Jack
A Mercantile Community
The Catalyst of Revolution
Prefigurations of Comprehensive Emancipation
Swallowed in America
THE CE~MANIZATION OF AM~,ICAN JEWRY
Upheaval and Efftux in Central Europe
A Consolidation of Political Status
The Jews of Public Perception
On the Frontier
The "Aristocrats" of San Francisco
Sustaining an Ancestral Heritage
The Struggle for Cultural Identity
The Chimera of Jewish Unity
THE AMERICANIZATION OF GERMAN JEWRY
Civil War and Nativization
Under Siege in the Union
Prefigurations of Self-Defense
Kleider Kultur and Merchant Bankers
The Institutionalization of Affluence
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