Politics, Faith, and the Making of American Judaism.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Jerusalem across the Sea -- 2. The First Crisis of American Jewry -- 3. Lincoln and the "Israelites" -- 4. Vulture of the Camp -- 5. The Hunger for Cotton -- 6. Exile and Other Edicts from the Battlefield -- 7. Confederate Ideology and Southern Jewry -- 8. Americanize as Fast as You Can -- 9. Lincoln, Grant, and the Jewish Vote -- 10. Prosperity and Discrimination in the Gilded Age -- 11. Toward a Progressive and Americanized Judaism -- 12. Violence in the Backwaters of Europe -- 13. A Judaism for the American Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
The history of American Judaism in the years after the Civil War.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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