Spanning 350 years of Jewish experience in this country, A History of the Jews in America is an essential chronicle by the author of The Course of Modern Jewish History. With impressive scholarship and a riveting sense of detail, Howard M. Sachar tells the stories of Spanish marranos and Russian refugees, of aristocrats and threadbare social revolutionaries, of philanthropists and Hollywood moguls. At the same time, he elucidates the grand themes of the Jewish encounter with America, from the bigotry of a Christian majority to the tensions among Jews of different origins and beliefs, and from the struggle for acceptance to the ambivalence of assimilation.
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A reliable guide and reference:
I found this book an excellent foundation for understanding the many
faces of American Judaism. I had the opportunity to read the whole
book cover to cover while recovering from an accident, and found that
it fleshed out facets of the Jewish experience I had heard about
elsewhere. Some of my perceptions of history were challenged, all were
deepened. And I still use it as a reference.
