Zion in America The Jewish Experience from Colonial Times to the Present

Scholarly yet highly readable, this volume offers a concise historical synthesis of the American Jewish experience. Starting with a survey of the wide-ranging Old World origins of the people of the Diaspora, it offers profiles of the New World cultures of Jews from Germany and Eastern Europe and chronicles the effects of changing political and economic climates on the Jewish community, the rise of the Jewish labor movement, and the settlement of immigrants on New York City's Lower East Side. The final third of the book focuses on events of the twentieth century, with perceptive chapters on Jews and American foreign affairs, American Jewry and the Holocaust, and the American Jewish condition today. 1981 edition.