Bücher der Reihe American Jewish Civilization Series

Between 1800 and 1880 approximately 6,500 Dutch Jews emigrated to the United States to join the hundreds who had come during the colonial era. The Forerunners offers the first detailed history of the emigration of Dutch Jews to the United States and to the whole American diaspora.

Study of a vital immigrant institution and the formation of American ethnic identity.

A history of Jewish fraternities and sororities in the early-twentieth-century United States.

This critical examination of the life of Mordecai Kaplan is based on Kaplan's unpublished 27-volume diary, thousands of personal letters, sermons, and Scult's own long-term relationship with Kaplan.

Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1983), founder of Reconstructionism, was a pre-eminent American Jewish thinker and rabbi. His life, which he meticulously recorded, embodies the American Jewish experience of the first half of the 20th century. This first volume covers his early years as a rabbi.

This work examines the historical relationship between American Jewry, the Jewish community in Israel and its predecessor, the ""yishuv"", the Jewish settlement in Palestine. The articles in this book range from Zionist movements in America to Israel's representation in contemporary prayer books.