A History of the Jews in America by Sachar, Howard M. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Prologue I. A Foothold in the Early Americas

A Transplanted Sephardic Heritage A Precarious North American Beachhead A Widening Security Under the Union Jack A Mercantile Community The Catalyst of Revolution Prefigurations of Comprehensive Emancipation Swallowed in America

II. The Germanization of American Jewry

Upheaval and Efflux in Central Europe A Consolidation of Political Status The Jews of Public Perception On the Frontier The “Aristocrats” of San Francisco Sustaining an Ancestral Heritage The Struggle for Cultural Identity The Chimera of Jewish Unity

III. The Americanization of German Jewry

Civil War and Nativization Under Siege in the Union Prefigurations of Self-Defense Kleider Kultur and Merchant Bankers The Institutionalization of Affluence Acculturation and American Society Prefigurations of Social Rejection The Americanization of Isaac M. Wise The Americanization of Judaism The Price of Acculturation

IV. The East European Avalanche Begins

The Slavic Hinterland Stirs The Trauma of Departure “Barbarians at the Gate” Rites of Passage Immigration Intensified—and Accepted Immigration Redirected

V. Survival in the Immigrant City

The Trauma of Urbanization Vocational Disorientation The Joys of Wage Slavery The Care of One’s Own The Philanthropy of Americanization Immigrant Children and Establishment Matrons “The Shame of Our Daughters” The Ghetto and Early Crime

VI. Social and Cultural Ferment in the Immigrant World

The Transplantation of Radicalism The Struggle for a Labor Foothold “The Great Revolt” The Crisis of Immigrant Orthodoxy In Search of a Communal “Address” The Emergence of Immigrant Community The Yiddish Press: A University of Life A Sunburst of Yiddish Literature The Culture of the Boards Prefigurations of Americanization

VII. The German-Jewish Conscience at Efflorescence

A Minority Progressivism Intercessors for European Jewry Russian Autocracy and Jewish Oligarchy The Campaign to Subvert a Treaty The Campaign for Wartime Relief

VIII. World War I and the Contest For American-Jewish Spokesmanship

The Great War and American-Jewish Reappraisal The Challenges of Instant Patriotism Stirrings of Early American Zionism Brandeis and the Transformation of American Zionism Seeking a Consensus on the National Home A Congress for the Jews Lobbying the Peace Conference A Heritage Assessed

IX. The Jewish Presence Under Reappraisal

Agrarianism and “International Finance” Culture Shock and “Eugenics” The Assault on the Open Door The Galveston Plan Radicalism and Reaction

X. The Golden Door Closes

A Resurgence of Neo-Agrarian Nativism The Politicization of Demagoguery “The International Jew” David and the Industrial Goliath The Triumph of Restrictionism A Closing of Inner Doors A. Lawrence Lowell Proposes a Quota

XI. Breaking the Immigrant Lockstep

Central Europeans at the Plateau A Renewed Sephardic Influx The Ghetto Walls Fall Mobsters and Brawlers Entrepreneuring a Popular Culture: Song and Stage Entrepreneuring a Popular Culture: Motion Pictures Creating a Popular Culture: Broadway and Hollywood Moving Out

XII. The Culture of Americanization

The Yiddish Legacy at Sunset Acculturation: Vision and Reality A Confrontation of Generations A Disorientation of Orthodoxy Reform and Social Justice The Rabbi as Tribune The Greening of Tradition: Conservative Judaism A Stirring of Jewish Education A Secularization of Identity The Crisis of the College Generation A Search for Equilibrium and Identity The Legitimization of Diversity

XIII. The Era of the Great Depression

A Moratorium on Upward Mobility The Politics of Postrevolutionary Leftism Depression and the Jewish Radical Left The Insurrection of the Intellectuals “Anti-Fascism” in Theater and Film The New Deal and a Revival of Jewish Status A Resurgence of Antisemitism The Politics of Self-Protection The Politics of Accommodation

XIV. Nazism and the Quest for Sanctuary

Ongoing Trauma in the East European Reservoir The Shock of Early Nazism Succor and Rescue: The Early Stage A Public Animus Reinforced The Immigration Crisis Deepens A Chimera of Asylums A Return Engagement of German-Jewish Immigration The Hibernation of American Zionism A Resuscitation of American Zionism The Struggle for Palestinian Sanctuary

XV. World War II: Catastrophe and Renewal

The Hatreds of Isolationism and War Mobilization and Jewish Science A Pro-Soviet Honeymoon The Struggle to Rescue European Jewry Confronting the “Final Solution” The War Refugee Board The United States and the Holocaust: A Final Assessment Redemption of the Postwar Remnant A Renewed Search for American Asylum

XVI. The Zionization of American Jewry

A Mobilization of Wartime Zionism American Zionism and Mass Action An Ambiguity of Government Policy Truman Seeks to “Isolate” the Refugee Issue The United States Enters the Palestine Imbroglio American Zionism Takes the Diplomatic Initiative

XVII. The Birth of Israel

Forcing the Issue in the United Nations The Struggle for the Jewish State American Jewry Pays Its Dues

XVIII: From Cold War to Belle Epoque

A Lingering Restrictionism The Hollywood Witch Hunt The Rosenberg Affair: Indictment and Trial The Rosenberg Affair: Aftermath and Trauma The Valedictory of Central European Capitalism The East Europeans’ Place in the Sun A Foot in the Gentile Economy That’s Entertainment A Third-Generation Life Style A Breaching of Intramural Barriers

XIX. The Triumph of Democratic Pluralism

Jewish Federalism in the Ascendant A Revived Quest for Communal Unity A Fashionability of Denominationalism Scholasticism and Pedagogy An Erosion of Ideological Commitment A Transfiguration Of Orthodoxy Americanization and Revitalization A Renaissance of Secular Jewish Culture

XX. Defining a Relationship with the Jewish State

The Generosity of Pride Israeli Sovereignty and American Zionism Jewish Americanism and Israeli Zionism Redefining the Dimensions of Support A Commitment Under Consolidation A Relationship Becomes a Partnership A Partnership Under Consolidation Israel in American-Jewish Identity

XXI. A Jewish Impact on American Culture

The Refugee Intellectuals Cast a Shadow The Gates of Academe Open An Easing of Barriers to Law and Medicine Self-Expression and the Creative Arts Words and Issues: Disseminators and Commentators The New York Intellectuals An Artistic Confrontation with Jewishness The Landscape of the Heart

XXII. At Home in America

A Third-Generation Demographic Profile An Intermittent Peril from the Right Church and State From Radicalism to Liberalism The Rise and Fall of Jewish “Participatory Democracy” A Confrontation of Minorities The Struggle for Vocational Turf Is It Good for the Jews? The Politics of Respectability The Talisman of Respectability

XXIII. Ethnicity at the Apogee

Feminism and Communal Democracy Internalizing the Holocaust The Uses and Misuses of the Past Ethnicity at the Apogee A Reaffirmation of Cultural Identity Ethnicity and Ethics

XXIV. Again, the Promised Land

The Israel Lobby: The Power of Perception A Diffusion of Israel’s Image A Reappraisal of Largess Israel Revisited A Definition of Loyalties Again, the Promised Land

XXV. Diaspora and Homeland: A Crisis of Recognition

The Challenge of Soviet-Jewish Rescue A “Consciousness-Raising” for American Jewry The Struggle for an Amendment A Reassertion of American-Jewish Seniority The Challenges of a New Russian Absorption

Afterword Bibliography A Note About the Author

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