Description
Drawing on a mixture of up to date books, pamphlets, manuscripts, globes, maps and engravings from the world-renowned collections of the New York Public Library, Jews in The usa is a vivid document of on a regular basis Jewish-American life, worship, law, and commerce. It tells the fascinating story of Jewish immigration, and interaction with the four colonial powers within the Western Hemisphere (Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and English), and at the ideas and beliefs that influenced—and were influenced by—the settlement of these first Jews in New York.