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Jews in America: from New Amsterdam to the Yiddish stage / Stephen D. Corrsin, Amanda Seigel, Kenneth Benson ; preface, Anthony W. Marx ; introduction, Jonathan D. Sarna.

Title
Jews in America: from New Amsterdam to the Yiddish stage / Stephen D. Corrsin, Amanda Seigel, Kenneth Benson ; preface, Anthony W. Marx ; introduction, Jonathan D. Sarna.
Author
Corrsin, Stephen D.
Publication
[New York] : The New York Public Library, in association with D Giles Limited, London, c2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Seigel, Amanda
  • Benson, Kenneth C.
  • Sarna, Jonathan D.
  • New York Public Library
Description
160 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., col. maps; 26 cm.
Subject
  • New York Public Library > Exhibitions
  • 1861-1865
  • Jews > United States > History
  • Jews > United States > Emigration and immigration
  • Jews > United States > Politics and government
  • Jews > Cultural assimilation > United States
  • Judaism > United States > History
  • Jews in public life > United States
  • Antisemitism > United States > History
  • Jews > America > History
  • United States > Jews > Civil War, 1861-1865
  • United States > Ethnic relations
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • History
Note
  • "This volume grew out of the exhibition Jewes in America: Conquistadors, Knickerbockers, Pilgrims, and the Hope of Israel ... in The New York Public Library's Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Gallery, September 21-November 13, 2004."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Discovery -- New Christians, conversion and the Inquisition : the Dutch and the Portuguese in Brazil, Suriname and the Caribbean -- Arriving in New Amsterdam -- and then, New York -- Jewish Indians, Puritans and Quakers, the Christian millennium and the Hope of Israel -- Communities and constitutions in colonial North America -- The long nineteenth century of the Jews in America : The Civil War ; Religious developments ; Community ; Yiddish popular culture: literature, theater and the press.
ISBN
9781904832225 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2012017848
OCLC
  • 793340183
  • SCSB-12487694
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library