Jewish Community of Syracuse
Jewish Community of Syracuse

Author: Barbara Sheklin Davis

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738576589

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While New York City became home for most of the Jewish immigrants who crossed the Atlantic, others journeyed farther, seeking freedom and fortune. The city of Syracuse, easily reached by the Erie Canal, became the next port of call for some. It offered opportunities, open roads, and a small but ever-growing Jewish community. This history traces the development of the Jewish community of the Salt City from its beginnings in the early 18th century, when a handful of peddlers gathered weekly to share a Shabbat meal, to a much larger community that numbered 11,000-12,000 at its peak a century later. The Syracuse Jewish community is a microcosm of the history of Jews in America and is both distinctive and iconic in nature.

Making of an Ethnic Middle Class
Making of an Ethnic Middle Class

Author: William Toll

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1438422253

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The Making of an Ethnic Middle Class explains how European Jews of diverse cultural and social backgrounds coalesced over four generations into a middle-class community. By utilizing numerous oral histories to complement statistical data from public sources such as the federal manuscript censuses and public school enrollment cards, William Toll has succeeded in tracing in minute detail the contours of change. The study focuses particularly on the role of women to demonstrate how dramatic changes in the size and composition of the family and in sex roles, more than changes in the workplace, eroded European traditions.

The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000
The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000

Author: Hasia R. Diner

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2006-05-30

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 0520248481

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Annotation A history of Jews in American that is informed by the constant process of negotiation undertaken by ordinary Jews in their communities who wanted at one and the same time to be good Jews and full Americans.

A Time for Gathering
A Time for Gathering

Author: Hasia R. Diner

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1995-05

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9780801851216

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Diner describes this "second wave" of Jewish migration and challenges many long-held assumptions--particularly the belief that the immigrants' Judaism erodes in the middle class comfort of Victorian America.

Religion and the American Experience, 1620-1900
Religion and the American Experience, 1620-1900

Author: Annette Blum

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 1992-11-24

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13:

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This bibliography is a comprehensive record of doctoral dissertations on religion and American society. Included are 4,240 citations for dissertations written through June 1991. Each work discusses the historical dimension of America's religious experience between 1620 and 1900, and the bibliography provides order numbers for all dissertations available from University Microfilms, Inc. In addition to biographical and denominational studies, the volume contains citations on communal societies, fraternal orders, literature, pragmatism, science, slavery, and temperance. Also included are titles pertaining to church-affiliated institutions of higher education. A preface overviews the scope of the work, criteria for inclusion, and research methodology. A section of bibliographic entries for denominations and movements follows. Entries in this section are grouped in clusters for particular movements and denominations, and the clusters are arranged alphabetically for ease of use. The next section contains bibliographic entries arranged in topical clusters, with topics presented in alphabetical order. The volume concludes with detailed author and subject indexes.