A History of the Jews in America

Authors: Sachar, Howard M. & Sachar, Howard Morley
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: HIS054000, HIS022000, HIS036000
ISBN: 9780804150521, Related ISBNs: 0394573536, 0679745300, 0804150524, 9780394573533, 9780679745303
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 1072,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: 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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