Tradition Transformed The Jewish Experience in America

Name: Tradition Transformed The Jewish Experience in America
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ISBN: 9780801854477

ISBN-10: 0801854474

ISBN-13: 9780801854477

Edition: 1997

Authors: Gerald Sorin

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Throughout American history, from the colonial era to the present, Jews have found America generally hospitable. Yet even in this relatively receptive country, which essentially replaced Israel as the "promised land," there have been vexing questions for Jews -- questions about the costs of freedom and mobility, especially with regard to the erosion of Jewish tradition and distinctiveness. In this one-volume history of the Jewish experience in America, Gerald Sorin argues that, from colonial times to the present, "acculturation" and not "assimilation" has best described the experience of Jewish Americans. American Jews, Sorin explains, have maintained their unique ethnic characteristics…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 4/18/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.02" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Gerald Sorin is Distinguished Professor of History and Director of Jewish Studies at SUNY New Paltz. His most recent book is Tradition Transformed: The Jewish Experience in America.



Series Editor's Foreword


Preface and Acknowledgments



Perspectives and Prospects



The Threshold of Liberation, 1654-1820



The Age of Reform, 1820-1880



The Eastern European Cultural Heritage and Mass Migration to the United States, 1880-1920



Transplanted in America: The Urban Experience



Transplanted in America: Smaller Cities and Towns



Jewish Labor, American Politics



Varieties of Jewish Belief and Behavior



Power and Principle: Jewish Participation in American Domestic Politics and Foreign Affairs



Mobility, Politics, and the Construction of a Jewish American Identity



Almost at Home in America, 1920-1945



American Jewry Regroups, 1945-1970



Israel, the Holocaust, and Echoes of Anti-Semitism in Jewish American Consciousness, 1960-1995



The Ever-Disappearing People


Bibliographical Essay


Index