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Brings together all aspects of American Jewish history--the transformation of a people, their religion, their move into trade and commerce, their political commitments, and their contributions to education and culture.

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 yet have become part of mainstream, middle-class American life. Sorin also shows how the large migration of Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth century made a lasting impact on how other Americans imagine, understand, and relate to Jewish Americans and their cultural contributions today.

Drawing together all aspects of American Jewish history, this concise volume deals with the transformation of a people, their religion, their move into trade and commerce, their political commitments domestically and internationally (especially after the Holocaust), and their contributions to education and culture.

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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.

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  • Title Tradition Transformed: The Jewish Experience in America
  • Author Gerald Sorin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1997-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780801854477 / 0801854474
  • Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.01 x 0.77 in (22.81 x 15.27 x 1.96 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Ethnic relations, Jews - United States - Politics and
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96028303
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.049

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  • Publishers Weekly, 03/03/1997, Page 56

About the author

Gerald Sorin is Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of History at the State University of New York, New Paltz. He is the author of A Time for Building: The Third Migration, 1880-1920 (Volume 3 of The Jewish People in America), available from Johns Hopkins.

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