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Jews in America: From New Amsterdam to the Yiddish Stage

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Jews in America documents the remarkable story of the Jewish presence within the New World, from the time of Columbus to the 1920s, when the Jewish community in america was once four million strong and an very important a part of American society and culture.

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.
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