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TRANSNATIONAL TRADITIONS
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY |
| By: |
Ava Fran Kahn (Editor), Adam E. Mendelsohn (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£36.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0814338615 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780814338612 |
| Publisher: |
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
3 November, 2014 |
| Pages: |
328 |
| Language: |
English, Multiple languages |
| Description: |
The first edited collection to systematically survey the variety and complexity of transnational experiences and encounters within American Jewish history. |
| Synopsis: |
Despite being the archetypal diasporic people, modern Jews have most often been studied as citizens and subjects of single nation states and empires - as American, Polish, Russian, or German Jews. This national approach is especially striking considering the renewed interest among scholars in global and transnational influences on the modern world. Editors Ava F. Kahn and Adam D. Mendelsohn offer a new approach in Transnational Traditions: New Perspectives on American Jewish History as contributors use transnational and comparative methodologies to place American Jewry into a broader context of cultural, commercial, and social exchange with Jews in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and South America. In examining patterns that cross national boundaries, contributors offer new ways of understanding the development of American Jewish life. The diverse chapters, written by leading scholars, reflect on episodes of continuity and contact between Jews in America and world Jewry over the past two centuries.Individual case studies cover a range of themes including migration, international trade, finance, cultural interchange, acculturation, and memory and commemoration. Overall, this volume will expose readers to the variety and complexity of transnational experiences and encounters within American Jewish history. Accessible to students and scholars alike, Transnational Traditions will be appropriate as a classroom text for courses on modern Jewish, ethnic, immigration, world, and American history. No other single work in the field systematically focuses on this subject, nor covers the range of themes explored in this volume. Contributors Include: Rebecca Kobrin, Ava F. Kahn, Adam D. Mendelsohn, Lara Rabinovitch, Suzanne D. Rutland, Eric L. Goldstein, Tobias Brinkmann, Jonathan Goldstein, Ellen Eisenberg, Joan G. Roland. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Wayne State University Press |
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