Product Description: Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in America includes academics, artists, writers, and civic and religious leaders who contributed chapters focusing on the Sephardi and Mizrahi experience in America. Topics will address language, literature, art, diaspora identity, and civic and political engagement...read more

Product Description: In the decades after the Civil War, sports slowly gained a prominent position within American culture. This development provided Jews with opportunities to participate in one of the few American cultures not closed off to them. Jewish athleticism challenged anti-Semitic depictions of Jews’ supposed physical inferiority and an Americanization narrative emerged that connected Jewish athleticism with full acceptance and integration into American society...read more

Product Description: In the late nineteenth century in Europe, and to some extent in the United States, the Jewish upper middle class”particularly the more affluent families”began to enter the cultural spheres of public life, especially in major cities such as Vienna, Berlin, Paris, New York, and London...read more

Product Description: The Jewish Role in American Life examines the complex relationship between Jews and the United States. Jews have been instrumental in shaping American culture and Jewish culture and religion have likewise been profoundly recast in the United States, especially in the period following World War II...read more