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Politics, faith, and the making of American Judaism / Peter Adams

Adams, Peter, 1953-

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Univ. of Michigan Press, 2014

X, 207 S. : Ill.

Englisch

Includes bibliogr. references and index. - Bibliogr. S. 189 - 201

978-0-472-05205-9 (pbk.); 978-0-472-07205-7 (hbk.)

978-0-472-02988-4 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2013037613

OCoLC: 881872973     

MG 70968      Ähnliche Literatur

E184.353

973/.04924

Basisklassifikation: 15.87 (USA) <Geschichte> ; 15.96 (Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes außerhalb des Staates Israel)

SSG-Nummer(n): 7,26

*USA ; Judentum ; Geschichte     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Jews -- United States -- History -- 19th century ; Jews -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century ; Jews -- United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century ; Judaism -- United States -- History -- 19th century ; United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century

" In 1862, in the only instance of a Jewish expulsion in America, General Ulysses S. Grant banished Jewish citizens from the region under his military command. Although the order was quickly revoked by President Lincoln, it represented growing anti-Semitism in America. Convinced that assimilation was their best defense, Jews sought to Americanize by shedding distinctive dress, occupations, and religious rituals. American Jews recognized the benefit and urgency of bridging the divide between Reform and Orthodox Judaism to create a stronger alliance to face the challenges ahead. With Grant's 1868 presidential campaign, they also realized they could no longer remain aloof from partisan politics. As they became a growing influence in American politics, both political parties courted the new Jewish vote. Once in office, Grant took notice of the persecution of Jews in Romania and Russia, and he appointed more Jews to office than any president before him. Indeed, Simon Wolf, a Washington lawyer who became one of Grant's closest advisers, was part of a new generation of Jewish leaders to emerge in the post-Civil War era--thoroughly Americanized, politically mature, and committed to the modernized Judaism of the Reform movement"--