Sarna, Jonathan D. : Brandeis University

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.

"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

Holmes & Meier Publisher, Inc. Web Site, June, 2001

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.

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 womenand 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 Dilemmam, 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