Everything You Need to Know about America's Jews and their History

By Roy Rosenberg

An accessible, popular history of American Jews, this title explores contributions of the early colonial settlers to modern civil rights leaders to the Marx Brothers and Barbra Streisand. Roy... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452276284
• ISBN13: 9780452276284
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Plume
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.7" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

SURVEY OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY

As a religious minority, Jewish Americans have had a great impact on the life and culture of the United States. Unfortunately many people are unaware of their contributions and thus another chapter in America's diverse history was ignored until now. Roy Rosenberg provides you with a sweeping historical survey of Jews in the United States from its very beginnings up to the present (in this case 1997). Don't expect to be bored with countless dates and facts. Using a question and answer format, you are immediately engaged in being illuminated about the history of Jewish life in America. Have all the questions you have asked about Jews in America answered for you as you share in learning about their contributions and lifestyles that influenced American culture. This is an excellent book for those who are unaware of Jewish history in the United States as well as those who have an interest in America's ethnic cultures. It serves as an introductory text which should lead you to further exploration.

Just right.

As a Docent at the Skirball Museum I find this book most imformative. It enables one to accurately tell the stories of our people and their life in the USA. One item which is missing is the story of the first Jew to come to the Colonies, Jaochim Gans of Prague, sent to assay the colony of Virginia in 1585. The first Jew to come to what is now the USA. Almost 80 years before the Sephardim from Brazil! ( American Jewish History - Jewish Historical Society June 1998.