A History of the Jews in America | A History of the Jews in America

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Author: Howard M. Sachar
First Published: 1992
Type of Work: History
Time of Work: 1492-1991
Setting: The United States
Principal Characters: Isaac Leeser, Isaac Mayer Wise, Jacob Schiff, Louis D. Brandeis, Louis Marshall, Stephen S. Wise
Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics, History
Subjects: Culture, Ideology, United States or Americans, Politics, Religion, Immigration or emigration, Jews or Jewish life, Zionism
Locales: United States

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...

A History of the Jews in America | A History of the Jews in America

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