Bøker av Jacob Rader Marcus

Unfolds the history of Jewish immigration, segregation, and integration; of Jewry's cultural exclusiveness and assimilation; of its internal division and indivisible unity; and of its role in the making of America. This third volume covers the period from 1860 to 1920.

Unfolds the history of Jewish immigration, segregation, and integration; of Jewry's cultural exclusiveness and assimilation; of its internal division and indivisible unity; and of its role in the making of America. This second volume of this seminal work on American Jewry covers the period from 1841 to 1860.

Unfolds the history of Jewish immigration, segregation, and integration; of Jewry's cultural exclusiveness and assimilation; of its internal division and indivisible unity; and of its role in the making of America. Volume I focuses on the American revolution and the early national period, from 1776 to 1840.

Unfolds the history of Jewish immigration, segregation, and integration; of Jewry's cultural exclusiveness and assimilation; of its internal division and indivisible unity; and of its role in the making of America. In the fourth and final volume of this set, Marcus deals with the coming and challenge of the East European Jews from 1852 to 1920.

Ninety-one letters, ethical wills, bar mitzvah speeches, and other personal records are presented in chronological order following an interpretive essay on the ethical aspirations of American Jewry.