AMERICAN HISTORY / JEWISH STUDIES THE AMERICAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE Revised and Expanded Edition edited by Jonathan D. Sarna Second Edition

Presenting a range of the livliest, most informative writing on Jews in America from colonial times to the present, this revised and expanded edition of the popular reader contains nine new selections and continues to explore traditional areas as well as topics of current interest—such as Jewish women in American society and Jews in American popular culture. A headnote provides each essay's historical context and contemporary relevance, and extensively annotated bibliographies follow each section.
Contents Acknowledgments for the Second Edition Acknowledgments for the First Edition Introduction Part One: The American Jewish Community Takes Shape 1. The American Colonial Jew: A Study in Acculturation Jacob R. Marcus 2. The Impact of the American Revolution on American Jews Jonathan D. Sarna 3. The 1820s: American Jewry Comes of Age Malcolm H. Stern Part Two: The "German Period" in American Jewish History 4. From Württemberg to America: A Ninteenth-Century German-Jewish Village on Its Way to the New World Stefan Rohrbacher 5. America: The Reform Movement's Land of Promise Michael A. Meyer 6. The Christian Agenda Naomi W. Cohen 7. A Business Elite: German-Jewish Financeiers in Nineteenth-Century New York Barry E. Supple Part Three: The Era of East European Immigration 8. Immigrant Jews on the Lower East Side of New York: 1880–1914 Debrah Dwork 9. Germans versus Russians Moses Rischin 10. Immigrant women and Consumer Protest: The New York City Kosher Meat Boycott of 1902 Paula E. Hyman 11. Adapting to Abundance: Luxuries, Holidays, and Jewish Identity Andrew R. Heinze 12. The Jewishness of the Jewish Labor Movement in the United States Lucy S. Dawidowicz Part Four: Coming to Terms with America 13. Henry Ford and The International Jew Leo P. Ribuffo 14. The Emergence of the American Synagogue Jeffery S. Gurock 15. The Jewish Home Beautiful Jenna Weissman Joselit 16. Zionism: An American Experience Melvin I. Urofsky 17. The Midpassage of American Jewry Lloyd P. Gartner Part Five: The Holocaust and Beyond 18. Who Shall Bear Guilt for the Holocaust? The Human Dilemma Henry L. Feingold 19. A "Golden Decade" for American Jews: 1945–1955 Arthur A. Goren 20. Jewish Migration in Postwar America: The Case of Miami and Los Angeles Deborah Dash Moore 21. The Turbulent Sixties Jack Wertheimer 22. United States Jewry–A Look Forward Arthur Hertzberg Appendix 1: The Growth of the American Jewish Population Appendix 2: A Century of Jewish Immigration to the United States "Simply the best college-level reader available to professors and students alike ... A volume that must be on every university syllabus concerned with the history of Jewish life in America." —American Jewish Archives "In a clear and cogent introduction Sarna sets down the key themes of the American Jewish experience, showing how American Jews grappled with the dilemma of synthesizing their Jewish and American identities and remaining committed to Jewish survival in a culturally pluralistic society at the same time that they moved to embrace the promises of the American dream." —Journal of American Ethnic History Jonathan D. Sarna is a professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, is the author of Jacksonian Jew and People Walk on Their Heads: Moses Weinberger's Jews and Judaisim in New York, both published by Holmes & Meier.
304 pp • notes, appendix, index • ISBN 0-8419-1394-3 • $49.50 (cloth) ISBN 0-8419-1376-5 • $24.00 (paper)

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AMERICAN HISTORY / JEWISH STUDIES

THE AMERICAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE

Revised and Expanded Edition