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  title info:
    title: Politics, faith, and the making of American Judaism
  name:
    name part: Adams, Peter
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 207 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  note: Peter Adams.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    geographic: United States
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Judaism
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Ethnic relations
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  classification: E184.353 .A33 2014
  classification: 973/.04924
  identifier: 9780472072057 (hardback)
  identifier: 0472072056 (hardback)
  identifier: 9780472052059 (paper)
  identifier: 0472052055 (paper)
  identifier: 9780472029884 (ebook)
  identifier: 0472029886 (ebook)
  identifier: 2013037613
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 131203
    record change date: 20151206100640.0
    record identifier: in00003453678