Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1. THE EARLIEST JEWISH COMMUNITIES 1. American Jewish Origins: 1654-1776 2. Becoming American: 1776-1820 PART 2. THE PIVOTAL CENTURY 3. A Century of Migration: 1820-1924 4. A Century of Jewish Life in America: 1820-1924 5. A Century of Jewish Politics: 1829-1920 PART 3. TWENTIETH-CENTURY JOURNEYS 6. At Home and Beyond: 1924-1948 7. A Golden Age? 1948-1967 8. In Search of Continuity: 1967-2000 Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Hasia R. Diner is Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University. She is the author of Lower East Side Memories: The Jewish Place in America (2000), Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (2001), and, with Beryl Benderly, Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America, 1654 to the Present (2002).

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