The Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in America

Marc Lee Raphael

January, 2008
Cloth, 504 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13222-0
$75.00 / £44.00

"The Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in America is a pathbreaking accomplishment that will be received as an important contribution." — Moses Rischin, professor of history, San Francisco State University

"Marc Lee Raphael has masterfully assembled an impressive cornucopia of learned and readable essays. In contrast to many edited volumes that present readers with a series of loosely related topical studies, The Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in America offers a thoughtful structure wherein noted experts have joined together to create an impressive mosaic depicting the history of Jewish life in America. Scholars, specialists, and general readers will all return to this fine volume time and again." — Gary Phillip Zola, executive director of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives and associate professor of the American Jewish experience at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati

Related Subjects

• American Religion
• Judaism
• Reference

About the Author

Marc Lee Raphael is the Nathan and Sophia Gumenick Professor of Judaic Studies, professor of religious studies, chairman of the Department of Religious Studies, and director of the Program in Judaic Studies at the College of William and Mary. He will publish his memoir, Diary of a Los Angeles Jew, 1947-1972: Autobiography as Autofiction, in 2008 and is beginning a history of the synagogue in America for New York University Press. He and his wife, Linda Schermer Raphael, live in Washington, D.C.

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