Author: Israel Joseph Benjamin
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush
Author: Ava Fran Kahn
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814328590
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
In 1848, news of the California Gold Rush swept the nation and the world. Aspiring miners, merchants, and entrepreneurs from all corners of the globe flooded California looking for gold. The cry of instant wealth was also heard and answered by Jewish communities in Europe and the eastern United States. While all Jewish immigrants arriving in the mid-nineteenth century were looking for religious freedoms and economic stability, there were preexisting Jewish social and religious structures on the East Coast. California's Jewish immigrants become founders of their own social, cultural, and religious institutions. Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush examines the life of California's Jewish community through letters, diaries, memoirs, court and news reports, and photographs, as well as institutional, synagogue, and organizational records. By gathering a wealth of primary source materials-both public and private documents-and placing them in proper historical context, Ava F. Kahn re-creates the lives within California's Jewish community. Kahn takes the reader from Europe to California, from the goldfields to the developing towns and their religious and business communities, and from the founding of Jewish communities to their maturing years-most notably the instant city of San Francisco. By providing exhaustive documentation, Kahn offers an intimate portrait of Jewish life at a critical period in the history of California and the nation. Scholars and students of Jewish history and immigration studies, and readers interested in Gold Rush history, will enjoy this look at the development of California's Jewish community.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814328590
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
In 1848, news of the California Gold Rush swept the nation and the world. Aspiring miners, merchants, and entrepreneurs from all corners of the globe flooded California looking for gold. The cry of instant wealth was also heard and answered by Jewish communities in Europe and the eastern United States. While all Jewish immigrants arriving in the mid-nineteenth century were looking for religious freedoms and economic stability, there were preexisting Jewish social and religious structures on the East Coast. California's Jewish immigrants become founders of their own social, cultural, and religious institutions. Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush examines the life of California's Jewish community through letters, diaries, memoirs, court and news reports, and photographs, as well as institutional, synagogue, and organizational records. By gathering a wealth of primary source materials-both public and private documents-and placing them in proper historical context, Ava F. Kahn re-creates the lives within California's Jewish community. Kahn takes the reader from Europe to California, from the goldfields to the developing towns and their religious and business communities, and from the founding of Jewish communities to their maturing years-most notably the instant city of San Francisco. By providing exhaustive documentation, Kahn offers an intimate portrait of Jewish life at a critical period in the history of California and the nation. Scholars and students of Jewish history and immigration studies, and readers interested in Gold Rush history, will enjoy this look at the development of California's Jewish community.
Deutsch-amerikanische Geschichtsblätter
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Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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The German Element in the United States with Special Reference to Its Political, Moral, Social, and Educational Influence
Author: Albert Bernhardt Faust
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1518
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1518
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The German-Jewish Migration to America
Author: Max James Kohler
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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The German Element in the United States with Special Reference to Its Political, Moral, Social, and Educational Influence: An estimate of the number of persons of German blood in the population of the United States
Author: Albert Bernhardt Faust
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Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Die deutsche Präsenz in den USA
Author: Josef Raab
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3825800393
Category : Acculturation
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Whereas the cultural and political influence of the U.S. on Europe and Germany has been researched extensively, the impact of more than 6 million German immigrants on U.S.-American history and culture has received far less scholarly attention. Therefore this volume addresses a wide range of areas in which a German presence has been manifesting itself in the U.S. for more than three centuries. Among the disciplines involved in this broad analysis are linguistics, literary studies, history, economics, musicology as well as media studies and cultural studies.
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3825800393
Category : Acculturation
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Whereas the cultural and political influence of the U.S. on Europe and Germany has been researched extensively, the impact of more than 6 million German immigrants on U.S.-American history and culture has received far less scholarly attention. Therefore this volume addresses a wide range of areas in which a German presence has been manifesting itself in the U.S. for more than three centuries. Among the disciplines involved in this broad analysis are linguistics, literary studies, history, economics, musicology as well as media studies and cultural studies.
A Dictionary of Books relating to America
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846049670
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846049670
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
New Perspectives on Jewish Cultural History
Author: Maja Gildin Zuckerman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000477959
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
This book presents original studies of how a cultural concept of Jewishness and a coherent Jewish history came to make sense in the experiences of people entangled in different historical situations. Instead of searching for the inconsistencies, discontinuities, or ruptures of dominant grand historical narratives of Jewish cultural history, this book unfolds situations and events, where Jewishness and a coherent Jewish history became useful, meaningful, and acted upon as a site of causal explanations. Inspired by classical American pragmatism and more recent French pragmatism, we present a new perspective on Jewish cultural history in which the experiences, problems, and actions of people are at the center of reconstructions of historical causalities and projections of future horizons. The book shows how boundaries between Jewish and non-Jewish are not a priori given but are instead repeatedly experienced in a variety of situations and then acted upon as matters of facts. In different ways and on different scales, these studies show how people's experiences of Jewishness perpetually probe, test, and shape the boundaries between what is Jewish and non-Jewish, and that these boundaries shape the spatiotemporal linkages that we call history.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000477959
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
This book presents original studies of how a cultural concept of Jewishness and a coherent Jewish history came to make sense in the experiences of people entangled in different historical situations. Instead of searching for the inconsistencies, discontinuities, or ruptures of dominant grand historical narratives of Jewish cultural history, this book unfolds situations and events, where Jewishness and a coherent Jewish history became useful, meaningful, and acted upon as a site of causal explanations. Inspired by classical American pragmatism and more recent French pragmatism, we present a new perspective on Jewish cultural history in which the experiences, problems, and actions of people are at the center of reconstructions of historical causalities and projections of future horizons. The book shows how boundaries between Jewish and non-Jewish are not a priori given but are instead repeatedly experienced in a variety of situations and then acted upon as matters of facts. In different ways and on different scales, these studies show how people's experiences of Jewishness perpetually probe, test, and shape the boundaries between what is Jewish and non-Jewish, and that these boundaries shape the spatiotemporal linkages that we call history.
The American Jewish Woman
Author: Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780870687525
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Contains primary source material.
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780870687525
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Contains primary source material.
Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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