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American Jewish Civilization Series

The American Jewish Civilization Series features works of original scholarship and synthesis that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience. The series includes books of historical, social, cultural, religious, biographical, and regional interest. Although the series is no longer active, we continue to publish and welcome new submissions in this area.

Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939

Jewish Landsmanshaftn in American Culture

Daniel Soyer

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

Paperback
Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344507
$22.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344514

The Forerunners

Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora

Robert P. Swierenga

A detailed history of the immigration of Dutch Jews to the United States and to the whole American diaspora.

Paperback
Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344170
$21.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344163

Going Greek

Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945

Marianne R. Sanua

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

Paperback
Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344194
$22.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344187

Rebecca Gratz

Women and Judaism in Antebellum America

Dianne Ashton

This is the first in-depth biography of Rebecca Gratz (1781-1869), the foremost American Jewish woman of the nineteenth century.

Paperback
Published: January 2015
ISBN: 9780814341001
$27.99
eBOOK
Published: January 2015
ISBN: 9780814341018

"The Whole Wide World, Without Limits"

International Relief, Gender Politics, and American Jewish Women, 1893-1930

Mary McCune

An analysis of gender politics in the American Jewish community during the interwar period that reveals the role of gender and class in organizational politics and the importance of Jewish women in American political and activist history.

eBOOK
Published: June 2005
ISBN: 9780814337523

Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush

A Documentary History, 1849-1880

Edited with an Introduction by Ava F. Kahn

A history of the founding of California’s Jewish community during the Gold Rush.

Hardback
Published: September 2002
ISBN: 9780814328590
$44.99

Communings of the Spirit, Volume 1

The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, 1913-1934

Edited by Mel Scult

Selections from the diary of the founder of Reconstructionism in America, covering Kaplan’s early years as a rabbi, teacher of rabbis, and community leader.

Paperback
Published: May 2002
ISBN: 9780814331163
$29.99
Hardback
Published: May 2002
ISBN: 9780814325759
$44.99

Envisioning Israel

The Changing Ideals and Images of North American Jews

Edited by Allon Gal

Envisioning Israel examines the deeply entwined yet often problematic historical relationship between American Jewry and the Jewish community in Israel and its predecessor, the yishuv, the Jewish settlement in Palestine from the 1880s until 1948

Paperback
Published: November 1996
ISBN: 9780814326305
$29.99

Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism

Lance J. Sussman

This illuminating biography of Isaac Leeser reconstructs his personal struggles, pioneer efforts on behalf of American Judaism, and visions of a viable American-Jewish synthesis.

Hardback
Published: October 1995
ISBN: 9780814319963
$26.99

Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century

A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan

Mel Scult

Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century is the first critical examination of the early life of Mordecai M. Kaplan—the sources of his inspiration, the evolution of his thought as a religious ideologue, and his inner struggles.

Paperback
Published: December 1994
ISBN: 9780814322802
$24.99