Jews in America From New Amsterdam to the Yiddish Stage
Stephen D Corrsin. With an Introduction by Jonathan Sarna
Published by GILES in association with the New York Public Library
Release Date — October 2012 (UK and USA)
Dimensions — 160 pages, 250 x 220 mm (8½ x 10 in.), portrait
Illustrations — 110 colour and 10 b&w
Hardback price — UK£29.95 / US$45.00
ISBN — 978-1-904832-22-5
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Tells the remarkable story of the Jewish presence in America, from the earliest expeditions to the New World, the colonization of Latin America and the Caribbean, and arrival in the future United States.
Features rare manuscripts, prints, broadsides, maps, and books from the New York Public Library
Centres on the arrival of the first group of Jews in New York in 1654, and on the ideas and beliefs that they influenced over the subsequent centuries.
About the Book
Jews in America documents the remarkable story of the Jewish presence in the New World, from the time of Columbus to the 1920s, when the Jewish community in the United States was four million strong and an essential part of American society and culture.
Drawing on a mix of contemporary books, pamphlets, manuscripts, globes, maps and engravings from the world-renowned collections of the New York Public Library, Jews in America is a vivid document of everyday Jewish-American life, worship, law, and commerce. It tells the fascinating story of Jewish immigration, and interaction with the four colonial powers in the Western Hemisphere (Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and English), and on the ideas and beliefs that influenced—and were influenced by—the settlement of these first Jews in New York.
