Jews on the Frontier : Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America /

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'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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rabin, Shari (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Migration, Internal.
Judaism.
Jews > Migrations.
Jews > Identity.
HISTORY > Jewish.
RELIGION > Judaism > General.
Juifs > États-Unis > Identite > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Juifs > États-Unis > Migrations > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Judaïsme > États-Unis > Histoire > 1789-
Migration, Internal > United States > History > 19th century.
Jews > United States > Identity > History > 19th century.
Jews > United States > Migrations > History > 19th century.
Judaism > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Judaism, America, Mobility
  • Part I. Movement and Belonging
  • 1. Wandering Sons of Israel: Europe, America, and the Politics of Jewish Mobility
  • 2. Reminding Myself That I Am a Jew: Voluntarism and Social Life
  • Part II. The Lived Religion of American Jews
  • 3. I Prefer Choice Myself: Family and the State
  • 4. 'Tis in the Spirit Not in the Form: Material Culture and Popular Theology
  • Part III. Creating an American Judaism
  • 5. A Congregation of Strangers: The Mobile Infrastructure
  • 6. The Empire of Our Religion: The Mobile Imaginary
  • Conclusion: The Spirit of '77
  • Notes
  • Index

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