A History of Jews in America / Edition 1

by Abraham J. Karp

Overview

Abraham Karp's widely regarded work, A History of the Jews in America, is the only comprehensive, one-volume history of the Jewish-American experience. It surveys Jewish life from the colonial period and the early Republic through the decades of mass immigration and to the present. The evolution of the modern Jewish community and religious organizations in the United States is also discussed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781568219592
Publisher:	Aronson, Jason Inc.
Publication date:	12/01/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	504
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.45(d)

About the Author

Abraham J. Karp is Professor Emeritus of History and Phillip S. Bernstein Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at the University of Rochester, the Joseph and Rebecca Mitchell Research Professor of American Jewish History and Bibliography at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and a Visiting Professor of the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Editorial Reviews

The polyglot periodicals featured on the cover aptly reflect the diversity of US Jews since the landing of "the 23" in New Amsterdam in 1654. Karp presents the waves of immigration (though not the glasnost era one of Russian Jews), issues of maintaining dual-image identity while Americanizing, demographics, and some interesting b&w illustrations. Originally published in 1985 as . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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