A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness

A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness

Author: Frederic Cople Jaher

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780674790070

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Home to nearly one-half of the world's Jews, America also harbours its share of anti-Jewish sentiment. In a country founded on the principle of religious freedom, with no medieval past, no legal nobility and no national church, the questions arise of how anti-Semitism became a presence in America, and how did America's beginnings and history affect the course of this bigotry?