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Jews on the frontier : religion and mobility in nineteenth-century America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rabin, Shari (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2017]
Series:North American religions.
Subjects:
Judaism > United States > History > 19th century.
Jews > United States > Migrations > History > 19th century.
Jews > United States > Identity > History > 19th century.
Migration, Internal > United States > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Judaism, America, mobility
  • Movement and belonging
  • Wandering sons of Israel: Europe, America, and the politics of Jewish mobility
  • Reminding myself that I am a Jew: voluntarism and social life
  • The lived religion of American Jews
  • I prefer choice myself: family and the state
  • 'Tis in the spirit not in the form: material culture and popular theology
  • Creating an American Judaism
  • A congregation of strangers: the mobile infrastructure
  • The empire of our religion: the mobile imaginary
  • The spirit of '77.