Jews in Christian America
The Pursuit of Religious Equality
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:12th Nov '92
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This book examines how American Jews from colonial times to the present have contended with living in a fundamentally Christian state. Separation of church and state has become a veritable creed in the American Jewish community, and the focus of the work is the way in which Jewish actions have contributed to the development of this separation in the US.
In the end this book stands on its own. It finally gives American Jewish historiography a picture of its varied legal and institutional response to being 'strangers in the land'. In a host nation that above all else reveres the law, that story is indispensable for understanding the American Jewish experience. * American Historical Review *
ISBN: 9780195065374
Dimensions: 241mm x 164mm x 31mm
Weight: 660g
316 pages