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Jews of the American West

Edited by Moses Rischin and John Livingston 		The essays collected in Jews of the American West explore the context of American Jewish and Western American historiography. The book's general introduction discusses the implications of the contributions for a future study of Jewish history in a regional setting.
Individual introductions guide the reader through the respective contributions. Essays include "The Jewish Experience in America: A View from the West" by Moses Rischin, "Beyond New York: The Challenge to Local History" by Marc Lee Raphael, "Zion in Utah: The Clarion Colony and Jewish Agrarianism" by Robert A. Goldberg, "Chasing the Cure in Colorado: The Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society" by Jeanne Abrams, "Zionism versus Anti-Zionism: The State of Israel Comes to San Francisco" by Fred Rosenbaum, "From Desert Oasis to the Desert Caucus: The Jews of Tucson" by Leonard Dinnerstein, and "Intermarriage and the Urban West: A Religious Context for Cultural Change" by William Toll.		 "Remarkably well-informed . . . casts[s] light on the entire history of the region."—Robert M. Adams, New York Review of Books

"By successfully staking its claim to the importance of western Jewish history, Jews of the American West holds out the prospect of expanding and revitalizing our sense of American Jewish history."—Jenna Weissman Joselit, Journal of American Ethnic History
 
American Jewish Civilization Series

$19.95s paper / ISBN 0-8143-2171-2

228 pages

1991