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Category : Sephardim
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Collection of pamphlets and articles on the history of Sephardic Jews in the Americas
Author: Collection of Pamphlets and Articles on the History of the Jewish Community in America, Its Communal and Social Institutions, and Its Role in American Society
Author: Collection of Pamphlets and Articles Chiefly on Jewish Immigration to the United States
Author: Max James KohlerPublisher:
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Subject Collections
Author: Stephen CalvertPublisher: New York : R.R. Bowker
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
Book Description
Classified bibliography of special collections of documentation and subject emphases as reported by various library services and museums in the USA and Canada.
Congress Weekly
Author: American Jewish Life, 1920-1990
Author: Jeffrey S. GurockPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136674934
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
This volume contains articles on Jewish life from 1920 to the present. Its entries include studies of the economy and migration in postwar America, the impact of Holocaust survivors on American Society and the reaction to gender stereotypes within American Culture.
The Jewish encyclopedia: a descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day
Author: Isidore SingerSephardic Jews in America
Author: Aviva Ben-UrPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814725198
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A significant number of Sephardic Jews, tracing their remote origins to Spain and Portugal, immigrated to the United States from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans from 1880 through the 1920s, joined by a smaller number of Mizrahi Jews arriving from Arab lands. Most Sephardim settled in New York, establishing the leading Judeo-Spanish community outside the Ottoman Empire. With their distinct languages, cultures, and rituals, Sephardim and Arab-speaking Mizrahim were not readily recognized as Jews by their Ashkenazic coreligionists. At the same time, they forged alliances outside Jewish circles with Hispanics and Arabs, with whom they shared significant cultural and linguistic ties. The failure among Ashkenazic Jews to recognize Sephardim and Mizrahim as fellow Jews continues today. More often than not, these Jewish communities are simply absent from portrayals of American Jewry. Drawing on primary sources such as the Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) press, archival documents, and oral histories, Sephardic Jews in America offers the first book-length academic treatment of their history in the United States, from 1654 to the present, focusing on the age of mass immigration.
Congress bi-weekly; a journal of opinion and Jewish affairs
Author: The Grandees
Author: Stephen BirminghamPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504026322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The New World’s earliest Jewish immigrants and their unique, little-known history: A New York Times bestseller from the author of Life at the Dakota. In 1654, twenty-three Jewish families arrived in New Amsterdam (now New York) aboard a French privateer. They were the Sephardim, members of a proud orthodox sect that had served as royal advisors and honored professionals under Moorish rule in Spain and Portugal but were then exiled from their homeland by intolerant monarchs. A small, closed, and intensely private community, the Sephardim soon established themselves as businessmen and financiers, earning great wealth. They became powerful forces in society, with some, like banker Haym Salomon, even providing financial support to George Washington’s army during the American Revolution. Yet despite its major role in the birth and growth of America, this extraordinary group has remained virtually impenetrable and unknowable to outsiders. From author of “Our Crowd” Stephen Birmingham, The Grandees delves into the lives of the Sephardim and their historic accomplishments, illuminating the insulated world of these early Americans. Birmingham reveals how these families, with descendants including poet Emma Lazarus, Barnard College founder Annie Nathan Meyer, and Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, influenced—and continue to influence—American society.