United States Jewry, 1776-1985

Volume 2, The Germanic Period

Jacob Rader Marcus

• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9780814344705
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Jewish History
• Index: History

In United States Jewry, 1776–1985, the dean of American Jewish historians, Jacob Rader Marcus, unfolds the history of Jewish immigration, segregation, and integration; of Jewry's cultural exclusiveness and assimilation; of its internal division and indivisible unity; and of its role in the making of America. Characterized by Marcus's impeccable scholarship, meticulous documentation, and readable style, this landmark four-volume set completes the history Marcus began in The Colonial American Jew, 1492–1776. The second volume of this seminal work on American Jewry covers the period from 1841 to 1860. Unlike the early Jewish settlers, these immigrants were Ashkenazim from Europe's Germanic countries. Marcus follows the movement of these "German" Jews into all regions west of the Hudson River.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• I. The Coming of The “Germans”
• II. Dawn in the West: The Expansion of American Jewry, 1645–1880
• III. Jews of New England, The Old Southwest, and the Border States
• IV. Jews in the Middle West, Prairie States, and Far West
• V. Business Survival in the Transmississippi States and Territories
• VI. Jews Move into the Great Plains, Rockies, and the New Southwest
• VII. The Jews and the West, 1649–1880: An Evaluation
• VIII. Economic Life of the Jews, 1840–1860
• IX. The Jewish Religion, 1840–1860
• X. Social Welfare, 1840–1860
• XI. Jewish Education, Culture, and Social Life, 1840–1860
• XII. Rejection of Jews, 1840–1860
• XIII. Defense: The Board of Delegates of American Israelites
• XIV. American Jewry, 1840–1860: A Summary
• Key Abbreviations, Symbols, and Short Titles
• Notes
• Index