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A History of the Jews in America (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

Finally, amid a plethora of publications dealing with specific aspects of the American Jewish experience, Howard M. Sachar’s monumental A History of the Jews in America has filled the need for a solid, comprehensive text reviewing the entire sweep of the Jewish experience in the United States since the Spanish first reached the New World, five hundred years ago. Written for a general audience, it stands as the finest effort to date to present a one-volume history of American Jewry.

There have been other efforts to record the Jewish experience in America, all of them...

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