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The jews of Boston
- J. Sarna, Ellen Smith, Scott-Martin Kosofsky
- History
- 2005
Published on the 350th anniversary of the first Jews to arrive in America, this comprehensive history of the Jews of Boston is now available in a revised and updated paperback edition. The stunning…
AMERICAN JEWISH EDUCATION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
- J. Sarna
- Education
- 1 July 1998
In this paper, I want to offer some preliminary thoughts on the history of American Jewish education and how it might be reconceived and reconceptualized to transform it into a useful history one…
The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State.
- J. Sarna, Benjamin Ginsberg
- History
- 1 September 1994
Preface 1: The Jews: Social Marginality and the Fatal Embrace of the State 2: Jews, State Building, and Anti-Semitism in Nineteenth-Century America 3: Jews and the American Liberal State: From New…
The cult of synthesis in American Jewish culture
- J. Sarna
- History
- 1 October 1998
L'experience juive americaine, c'est-a-dire la croyance que le judaisme et l'americanisme se renforcent l'un l'autre, les deux traditions convergeant en un unique chemin, renferme un theme central de…
Minding the Store
- J. Sarna
- History, Art
T WELVE years have passed since Stephen Birmingham rocketed to the top of the bes~.seller list with his rousing account of the German Jewish elite. "Our Crowd" inaugu· rated a new literary…
Port Jews in the Atlantic: further thoughts
- J. Sarna
- History, Art
- 30 May 2006
Port Jews extended the boundaries of the Jewish world and re imagined its contours. Pushing beyond harbors long familiar to Jewish merchants, they daringly crossed over into the New World,…
The Jews of Boston : essays on the occasion of the centenary (1895-1995) of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston
- J. Sarna, Ellen Smith
- History
- 1 December 1996
Published on the 350th anniversary of the first Jews to arrive in America, this comprehensive history of the Jews of Boston is now available in a revised and updated paperback edition. The stunning…
American Judaism: A History
- J. Sarna
- History
- 2003
This magisterial work chronicles the 350-year history of the Jewish religion in America. Tracing American Judaism from its origins in the colonial era through the present day, Jonathan Sarna explores…
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