Antisemitism, an American Tradition (eBook)

Pamela S. Nadell (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
352 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-1-324-05065-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The powerful story of antisemitism in America and how it has shaped the lives of Jews for almost four centuries.Jews experienced antisemitism the moment they landed on what would become the United States. When they first arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654, Peter Stuyvesant tried but failed to deport them. As historian Pamela S. Nadell tells in Antisemitism, an American Tradition, this was only antisemitisms beginning on our shores, as negative European stereotypes about Jews rooted into American soil.Compared with the Old World, with its expulsions, Inquisition, ghettos, and Holocaust, Americas Jews have a different historybut one where antisemitism, even if it has had fewer dramatic eruptions, is deeply embedded. Jews in America faced restrictions on holding office and getting financial credit. Universities set quotas to limit the number of Jews attending and businesses refused to hire them. Jews endured verbal and physical attacks, and their synagogues and cemeteries, continuing to this day, were vandalized and desecrated.Antisemitism, an American Tradition investigates the depths of this fraught history and its recent manifestations: white nationalists chanting Jews will not replace us in Charlottesville, Virginia, and a gunman murdering eleven worshippers at Pittsburghs Tree of Life synagogue building.Nadell also shows Jews responding to prejudice and hate. Americas Jews created advocacy organizations. They turned to the courts to safeguard their constitutional rights. They made common cause with allies to confront all types of hate. They even used their fists when needed.At a time when prejudice, discrimination, and hate against Jews is flaring across the country, Antisemitism, an American Tradition argues that we must understand the past. This momentous work reveals how antisemitismand resistance to that hatredendures, representing not a rupture from Americas history, but a centuries-old legacy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.10.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 8 page insert
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Bias • bigotry • Charlottesville • Fascism • hate crimes • Holocaust • Leo Frank • Neo-Nazis • Peter Stuyvesant • Prejudice • resistance • stereotypes • tree of life pittsburgh • Vandalism • white supremacy
• ISBN-10: 1-324-05065-9 / 1324050659
• ISBN-13: 978-1-324-05065-0 / 9781324050650