Research Catalog

Title

On equal terms : Jews in America, 1881-1981 / Lucy S. Dawidowicz.

Author

Dawidowicz, Lucy S.

Publication

New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1982.

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Details

Description

vii, 194 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Jews > United States > History
• United States > Ethnic relations

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "Originally published in the American Jewish year book, 1982 (volume 82) in a somewhat different form"-- T.p. verso.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 184-186.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Introduction -- I. The Great Jewish Migration, 1881-1914 -- 1. The Source: East European Jewry -- 2. The Destination: America and Its Jews -- 3. America: The Immigrant Crucible -- II. Responsibility and Crisis, 1890-1945 -- 4. American Jewry Comes of Age -- 5. Decades of Anxiety, 1920-1939 -- 6. The Great Ordeal -- III. Recovery and Renwal -- 7. The Golden Age in America, 1945-1967 -- 8. The Swinging Pendulum, 1967-1981 -- Epilogue In the Light of History -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Growth of the Jewish Population in the United States -- Appendix B: Important Events in American Jewish History -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index

ISBN

0030616581

LCCN

^^^82002960^

OCLC

8283349

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library