Brown Judaic Studies
How America Met the Jews
Key Metrics
- Hasia R Diner
- Brown Judaic Studies
- Hardcover
- 9781946527042
- 9 X 6 X 0.5 inches
- 0.88 pounds
- History > United States - General
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
From the 1820s through the 1920s, nearly ninety percent of all Jews who left Europe moved to the United States. In this new book from Hasia Diner, she focuses on the realities of race, immigration, color, money, economic development, politics, and religion in America that shaped its history and made it such an attractive destination for Jews. Additionally, she approaches the question from the perspective of an America that sought out white immigrants to help stoke economic development and that valued religion as a force for morality. These tendencies converged and provided a situation where Jews could experience life in ways impossible elsewhere.
Author Bio
My courses seek to place the history of the Jews in the United States into a variety of contexts, including the larger history of the United States and the history of the Jews in other lands at the same time.
They place the experience of Jews as an American immigrant and ethnic group into the broader history of immigration and ethnicity in the United States and they link the history of Judaism in America into the history of American religion and in particular, into the history of other minority religions. Gender and the history of women plays a prominent feature in these courses.
Research Interests
- American Jewish history,
- American immigration history and women's history
Education
- University of Illinois-Chicago, PhD 1976
- University of Chicago, MA 1970
Source: New York University Arts & Science
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