Drawing on advertisements and etiquette manuals, sermons and surveys, social historian Jenna Weissman Joselit presents a lively, richly illustrated account of how American Jews created their distinctive culture. In vivid, often humorous detail, she describes how they raised their children, decorated their homes, shopped, cooked, marked important ...
In this first interpretive historical account of the American Orthodox Jewish experience, Jenna Weissman Joselit investigates the ways in which pious Jews reconciled the requirements of religious tradition with the freedoms of interwar America. Through its focus on representative American Jewish institutions such as the synagogue and the rabbinate ...
Our Gang provides a fascinating historical portrait of the Jewish criminal world from the era of mass immigration through Prohibition and beyond. Jenna Weissman Joselit traces the origins, nature, patterns, location, and impact of Jewish crime from the early years, when it was inextricably bound up with the East Side community as a whole, with ...
Between 1890 and the outbreak of World War II, ready-to-wear came into its own. Drawing on advertisements, trade journals, health manuals, sermons, science, and songs--historian Joselit shows how clothes express the spirit of democracy and the promise of America. 70 illustrations.
Spanning the years 1500 to the end of the 20th century, Immigration and American Religion is a unique exploration of the evolution, character, and dynamics of religion in America. From the original influx of Protestants to subsequent waves of Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, and devotees of Santeria and Voudou, Jenna ...
American religious history IS the history of immigration, from the first settlers in the 'Promised Land' to today's arrivals from every corner of the globe. Immigration and American Relgion in American Life series (Jon Butler and Harry S. Stout, general editors), examines the immigrant experience and the changes that arrivlas in the New World felt ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Hebrew Free Loan Society Of New York, New York
Date Published: 1992
Description: Hardcover with dustjacket. Good reading copy has marks on dustjacket. Dustjacket has slight chips and tears. Documents the Hebrew Free Loan Society and its contribution to the larger Jewish community. read more
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The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America
