American Jewish Civilization Series

The American Jewish Civilization Series features works of original scholarship and synthesis that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience. The series has published books of historical, social, cultural, religious, biographical, and regional interest.

Editors: Moses Rischin, San Francisco State University; Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University

Jews of the American West

Edited by Moses Rischin and John Livingston

A collection of essays exploring the context of American Jewish and Western American historiography.

An Ambiguous Partnership: Non-Zionists and Zionists in America, 1939–1948

Menahem Kaufman

Describes the non-Zionists involvement in the political processes in Washington and the United Nations, which eventually brought about the establishment of the State of Israel.

Hebrew in America: Perspectives and Prospects

Edited by Alan Mintz

Essays on the role of Hebrew in contemporary American Jewish life.

Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century: A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan

Mel Scult

The first critical examination of the early life of preeminent American Jewish thinker, Mordecai Kaplan.

A Credit to Their Community: Jewish Loan Societies in the United States, 1880–1945

Shelly Tenenbaum

Based on primary historical documents, this book provides an in-depth historical analysis of the emergence, growth, and subsequent decline of Jewish loan associations in America.

The Forerunners: Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora

Robert P. Swierenga

A detailed history of the immigration of Dutch Jews to the United States and to the whole American diaspora.