Description: This listing is for the hardcover book "A History of the Jews in America" by Howard M. Sachar. This 1,051 page book was published in 1992. This is an extremely comprehensive look at American Jews. Book measures 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". This book is in excellent unused condition. Please see the photos for more detail. Money-back guarantee. From the dust jacket: It is an epic 3 1/2 century account. Here are Spanish and Portuguese Jewish refugees from Brazil negotiating the right to disembark, to recite their Hebrew prayers, and ultimately to build homes, workshops, and synagogues in a colonial wilderness. Central European Jews later made their way westward, pioneering San Francisco and charting the estuaries of frontier commerce. In a subsequent age of steam transportation, East European Jewish garment workers all but revolutionize the social economy of the Eastern Seaboard, and simultaneously energize the arts and sciences, the music and literature, of an entire nation. The saga is peopled with unforgettable characters: with Levi Strauss, who clothed America's miners and farmers, and Helena Rubinstein, who made cosmetics affordable for their wives; Louis Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter, who wove the norms of social justice into the fabric of American law; Joseph Pulitzer and Adolph Ochs, who purified American journalism; George Gerswin and Aaron Copland, who modernized American music; Abraham Flexner, Selwyn Waksman, and Rosalyn Yalow, who brought American medicine into contemporary era. Sachar describes the culture shock experienced by an immigrant people in their leap from sweatshop proletarianism to second-generation economic security; their poignant, rear-guard struggle to accomodate European ideologies to a dynamic Anglo-Saxon society. The odyssey of the Jewish people is seamlessly delineated against the matrix of encompassing American society. Please feel free to ask any questions.
Price: 19.99 USD
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
End Time: 2024-09-12T12:07:00.000Z
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