California Jews (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture and Life) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1584650605 ISBN 13: 9781584650607

Verlag: Brandeis University Press, 2003

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The nation’s thirty-first state emerged early as one of its most diverse as people immigrated to the west. California’s indigenous tribes were forced off their lands first by Spanish settlers, then by the arrival of gold miners from every corner of the world. Because of its Catholic missionary history, Gold Rush California did not experience a more exclusive eastern-style Protestantism. This permitted more rapid and inclusive acculturation. California Jews, unlike their eastern counterparts whose arrival often followed that of European Protestants, were often among the first settlers to establish a west coast community. Jewish immigrants to California took advantage of its physical environment, ethnic diversity, and cultural distinctiveness to fashion a form of Judaism unique in the American experience. California Jews enjoyed unprecedented access to political power a generation earlier than their New York counterparts. They thrived in the multicultural mix, redefining the classic black-white racial binary by forging relations with a variety of religious and ethnic groups in both San Francisco and Los Angeles.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

AVA F. KAHN has taught at the University of California at Davis and San Francisco State University. Her publications include Jews of the Pacific Coast: Reinventing Community on America’s Edge and Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush: A Documentary History 1849–1880. MARC DOLLINGER teaches at San Francisco State University and is the author of Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America.

AVA F. KAHN has taught at the University of California at Davis and San Francisco State University. Her publications include Jews of the Pacific Coast: Reinventing Community on America's Edge and Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush: A Documentary History 1849-1880. MARC DOLLINGER teaches at San Francisco State University and is the author of Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Brandeis University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1584650605
• ISBN 13: 9781584650607
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216
• Herausgeber: Kahn Ava Fran, Dollinger Marc
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