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

Table of Contents

Introduction

Marc Lee Raphael

Chronological Essays

1. America's Earliest Jewish Settlers, 1654-1820

Eli Faber

2. Expanding Jewish Life in America, 1826-1901

Dianne Ashton

3. The Great Wave: Eastern European Jewish Immigration to the United States, 1880-1924

Eric L. Goldstein

4. American Judaism Between the Two World Wars

Jeffrey S. Gurock

5. Triumph, Accommodation, and Resistance: American Jewish Life from the End of World War II to the Six-Day War

Riv-Ellen Prell

6. Influence and Affluence, 1967-2000

Stephen J. Whitfield

Topical Essays

7. The Ever Dying Denomination: American Jewish Orthodoxy, 1824-1965

Kimmy Caplan

8. The History of Jewish Education in America, 1700-2000

Melissa Klapper

9. A Regional Context for Pacific Jewry, 1880-1930

William Toll

10. Fun and Games: The American Jewish Social Club

Jenna Weissman Joselit

11. A Multithematic Approach to Southern Jewish History

Mark K. Bauman

12. American Jewish Responses to Nazism and the Holocaust

Rafael Medoff

13. Holocaust Consciousness and American Jewish Politics

Michael E. Staub

14. What Is American Jewish Culture?

Jeffrey Shandler

15. Rites of Citizenship: Jewish Celebrations of the Nation

Beth S. Wenger

16. A Bright New Constellation: Feminism and American Judaism

Pamela S. Nadell

17. Contemporary Jewish Thought

Alan T. Levenson

18. There's No Space Like Home: The Representation of Jewish American Life

Linda S. Raphael

Contributors

Index

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.Marc Lee Raphael is the Nathan and Sophia Gumenick Professor of Judaic Studies, Professor of Religion, and Chair, Department of Religion, The College of William and Mary, and a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University. He was the editor of the quarterly journal, American Jewish History, for 20 years, and a visiting professor at Brown University, the University of Pittsburgh, HUC-JIR, UCLA, and Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of many books on Jews and Judaism including When Night Fell: An Anthology of Holocaust Short Stories (Rutgers University Press, 1999) and Judaism in America (Columbia University Press, 2003).

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