Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Norwood, Stephen H. (Stephen Harlan), 1951-2023
2. Pollack, Eunice G

Description

1. 2 volumes (xvii, 775, I-31 pages) : illustrations, maps; 29 cm.

Summary

1. Virtually every aspect of American culture has been profoundly influenced by Jewish immigrants and their descendants.

Series statement

1. American ethnic experience

Uniform title

1. American ethnic experience.

Subject

1. Jews -- United States -- History -- Encyclopedias
2. Jews -- United States -- History
3. Jews
4. United States

Genre/Form

1. Reference works.
2. Encyclopedias.
3. History.

Contents

1. v. 1. Immigration and settlement -- Demographic and economic profiles of twentieth-century American Jewry -- Judaism in America -- Jewish communities -- Antisemitism in America -- Zionism in America -- The Holocaust and America -- Jewish organizations -- Jews and the press -- American Jews in political and social movements -- Jews in wars and the military -- American Jews and the law -- American Jews and crime -- American Jews and labor -- v. 2. American Jews in business and philanthropy -- Intergroup relations -- American Jews in entertainment and popular culture -- American Jews in sports -- American Jewish novelists, essayists, poets, and playwrights -- American Jewish literary critics -- American Jews and art -- American Jews and music -- American Jews and the social sciences -- American Jews in science -- American Jews and education -- Jewish history and American Jewish historians.

Call number

1. E184.35

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Terms of use (note)

1. British Library not licensed to copy

Title

1. Encyclopedia of American Jewish history / Stephen H. Norwood and Eunice G. Pollack, editors.

Publisher

1. Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-CLIO, [2008]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. American ethnic experience
2. American ethnic experience.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Terms of use

1. British Library not licensed to copy 0. Uk

Connect to:

1. Table of contents
2. Publisher description

Added author

1. Norwood, Stephen H. (Stephen Harlan), 1951-2023.
2. Pollack, Eunice G.

LCCN

1. 2007013889

ISBN

1. 9781851096381 (hard copy ; alk. paper)
2. 1851096388 (hard copy ; alk. paper)

Research call number

1. *R-JWS E184.35 .E53 2008