Politics, faith, and the making of American Judaism /
"In 1862, in the only instance of a Jewish expulsion in America, General Ulysses S. Grant banished Jewish citizens from the region under his military command. Although the order was quickly revoked by President Lincoln, it represented growing anti-Semitism in America. Convinced that assimilatio...
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Ann Arbor, Michigan :
The University of Michigan Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Jerusalem across the Sea 8
- 2 The First Crisis of American Jewry 16
- 3 Lincoln and the "Israelites" 26
- 4 Vulture of the Camp 33
- 5 The Hunger for Cotton 46
- 6 Exile and Other Edicts from the Battlefield 54
- 7 Confederate Ideology and Southern Jewry 66
- 8 Americanize as Fast as You Can 74
- 9 Lincoln, Grant, and the Jewish Vote 83
- 10 Prosperity and Discrimination in the Gilded Age 98
- 11 Toward a Progressive and Americanized Judaism 110
- 12 Violence in the Backwaters of Europe 123
- 13 A Judaism for the American Century 139.