The Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in America Book

Introduction   Marc Lee Raphael     1
Chronological Essays
America's Earliest Jewish Settlers, 1654-1820   Eli Faber     21
Expanding Jewish Life in America, 1826-1901   Dianne Ashton     47
The Great Wave: Eastern European Jewish Immigration to the United States, 1880-1924   Eric L. Goldstein     70
American Judaism Between the Two World Wars   Jeffrey S. Gurock     93
Triumph, Accommodation, and Resistance: American Jewish Life from the End of World War II to the Six-Day War   Riv-Ellen Prell     114
Influence and Affluence, 1967-2000   Stephen J. Whitfield     142
Topical Essays
The Ever Dying Denomination: American Jewish Orthodoxy, 1824-1965   Kimmy Caplan     167
The History of Jewish Education in America, 1700-2000   Melissa R. Klapper     189
A Regional Context for Pacific Jewry, 1880-1930   William Toll     217
Fun and Games: The American Jewish Social Club   Jenna Weissman Joselit     246
A Multithematic Approach to Southern Jewish History   Mark K. Bauman     263
American Jewish Responses to Nazism and the Holocaust   Rafael Medoff     291
Holocaust Consciousness and American Jewish Politics   Michael E.Staub     313
What Is American Jewish Culture?   Jeffrey Shandler     337
Rites of Citizenship: Jewish Celebrations of the Nation   Beth S. Wenger     366
A Bright New Constellation: Feminism and American Judaism   Pamela S. Nadell     385
Contemporary Jewish Thought   Alan T. Levenson     406
There's No Space Like Home: The Representation of Jewish American Life   Linda S. Raphael     433
Contributors     459
Index     463