A Time for Planting, vol. 1: The First Migration, 1654-1820: v. 1 (The Jewish People in America) - Hardcover

Faber

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080184343X ISBN 13: 9780801843433

Publisher: John Hopkins University Press, 1992

Synopsis

Sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society in its centennial year, this book is part of a five-volume set which chronicles Jewish life in the United States from colonial times to the present. The respective authors explore the roots of Jewish immigration, the experience of settling in America, economic and social adjustment, religious developments and educational aspirations, political involvements, and the experience from generation to generation of what it means to be at once both Jewish and American. In the autumn of 1654, 23 Jews aboard the bark "Sainte Catherine" landed at the town of New Amsterdam to establish the first permanent Jewish settlement in North America. In this first volume, the author recounts the earliest days of Jewish life in America, as Jews from Lisbon to Amsterdam to London extended the wanderings of their centuries-old diaspora - to a distant, but promising new world.

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About the Author

Eli Faber is professor of history and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of The City University of New York. Hasia Diner is professor of American studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Gerald Sorin is chairman of the Department of History and Director of Jewish Studies at the State University of New York, New Paltz. Henry L. Feingold is professor of history at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Edward S. Shapiro is professor of history at Seton Hall University.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080184343X
• ISBN 13: 9780801843433
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224