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How America Met the Jews

Release on 2017-12-29 | by Hasia R. Diner

Author: Hasia R. Diner
Publisher: Brown Judaic Studies
ISBN: 1946527041
Category: History
Page: 152
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How America Met the Jews

Explore how American conditions and Jewish circumstances collided in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries In this new book award-winning author Hasia R. Diner explores the issues behind why European Jews overwhelmingly chose to move to the United States between the 1820s and 1920s. Unlike books that tend to romanticize American freedom as the force behind this period of migration or that tend to focus on Jewish contributions to America or that concentrate on how Jewish traditions of literacy and self-help made it possible for them to succeed, Diner instead focuses on aspects of American life and history that made it the preferred destination for 90 percent of European Jews. Features: Examination of the realities of race, immigration, color, money, economic development, politics, and religion in America Exploration of an America agenda that sought out white immigrants to help stoke economic development and that valued religion as a force for morality

Language: en
Pages: 152

How America Met the Jews

Authors: Hasia R. Diner

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-29 - Publisher: Brown Judaic Studies

Language: en
Pages: 512

Jazz and Justice

Authors: Gerald Horne

Categories: Music

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-18 - Publisher: Monthly Review Press

A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural exploitation The music we call “jazz” arose in late nineteenth century North America—most likely in New Orleans—based on the musical traditions of Africans, newly freed from slavery. Grounded in the music known as the “blues,” which expressed