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Jews on the frontier : religion and mobility in nineteenth-century America /
'Jews on the Frontier' is a religious history of the United States that begins in an unexpected place: on the road with mobile Jews. It follows them out of eastern cities and into the American frontier, where they found unprecedented economic opportunity but also anonymity, loneliness, ins...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | North American religions.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 'Jews on the Frontier' is a religious history of the United States that begins in an unexpected place: on the road with mobile Jews. It follows them out of eastern cities and into the American frontier, where they found unprecedented economic opportunity but also anonymity, loneliness, instability, mistrust, scarcity, and diversity, all of which complicated the many legal obligations of traditional Jewish life. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 193 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781479850433 1479850438 9781479869855 1479869856 |