A Time for Planting : The First Migration, 1654-1820 (The Jewish People in America)
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"Because of the small numbers involved, Eli Faber in this work can follow families, specific communities, and even individuals in gratifying detail. Throughout, his focus is on the persisting tension between preserving the distinctive community on the one hand and, on the other, seeking some identification with the surrounding society... In workmanlike prose Faber demonstrates how patterns of accommodation and survival were set well before large numbers of Jews began arriving in this latter day promised land." -- Edwin S. Gaustad, Journal of American Ethnic History
Book Description
Volume I: A Time for Planting: The First Migration, 1654-1820
In the autumn of 1654, twenty-three Jews aboard the bark Sainte Catherine landed at the town of New Amsterdam to establish the first permanent Jewish settlement in North America. In A Time for Planting, Eli Faber recounts these earliest days of Jewish life in America, as Jews from Lisbon to Amsterdam to London extended the wanderings of their centuries-old diaspora.
A Time for Planting : The First Migration, 1654-1820 (The Jewish People in America)
A Time for Planting: The First Migration, 1654-1820 (The Jewish People in America),Eli Faber,The Johns Hopkins University Press,0801851203,History: American,Jewish - General,Judaism - General,Religion - Judaism,United States - General,American history: c 1500 to c 1800,American history: c 1800 to c 1900,History of specific racial & ethnic groups,Jewish studies,Science / Environmental Science,USA,c 1600 to c 1700,c 1700 to c 1800,c 1800 to c 1900
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