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New Israel / New England : Jews and Puritans in Early America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (298 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781613760109
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: New Israel / New EnglandDDC classification:
  • 973.2
LOC classification:
  • F15
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: "We Shall be Friends": The European Background for Puritan Judeocentrism -- Chapter 1. "Jews, Turks . . . and Anti-Christians": Alien Encounters with Puritan Hebraism -- Chapter 2. "New-England is Seldom Wholly without them": Boston's Frazon Brothers and the Limits of Puritan Zeal -- Chapter 3. "A Jew Rarely Comes Over to us but he Brings Treasures with him": The Conversion and Harvard Career of Judah Monis -- Chapter 4. "A Handsome Assembly of People": Jewish Settlement and the Refinement of New England Culture -- Chapter 5. "An Openness to Candour": Scholarly Ecumenicism in Pre-Revolutionary Newport -- Chapter 6. "A most Valuable Citizen": Moses Michael Hays and the Modernization of Boston -- Conclusion: "Gone are the Living but the Dead Remain": The Jewish Legacy in Nineteenth-Century New England -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: "We Shall be Friends": The European Background for Puritan Judeocentrism -- Chapter 1. "Jews, Turks . . . and Anti-Christians": Alien Encounters with Puritan Hebraism -- Chapter 2. "New-England is Seldom Wholly without them": Boston's Frazon Brothers and the Limits of Puritan Zeal -- Chapter 3. "A Jew Rarely Comes Over to us but he Brings Treasures with him": The Conversion and Harvard Career of Judah Monis -- Chapter 4. "A Handsome Assembly of People": Jewish Settlement and the Refinement of New England Culture -- Chapter 5. "An Openness to Candour": Scholarly Ecumenicism in Pre-Revolutionary Newport -- Chapter 6. "A most Valuable Citizen": Moses Michael Hays and the Modernization of Boston -- Conclusion: "Gone are the Living but the Dead Remain": The Jewish Legacy in Nineteenth-Century New England -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.

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