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 Although the series is no longer active, we continue to publish and welcome new submissions in this area.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
Study of a vital immigrant institution and the formation of American ethnic identity.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814344507
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814344514
The Forerunners
Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora
A detailed history of the immigration of Dutch Jews to the United States and to the whole American diaspora.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814344170
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814344163
Going Greek
Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945
A history of Jewish fraternities and sororities in the early twentieth-century United States.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814344194
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814344187
Rebecca Gratz
Women and Judaism in Antebellum America
This is the first in-depth biography of Rebecca Gratz (1781-1869), the foremost American Jewish woman of the nineteenth century.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814341001
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341018
"The Whole Wide World, Without Limits"
International Relief, Gender Politics, and American Jewish Women, 1893-1930
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
ISBN: 9780814337523
Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush
A Documentary History, 1849-1880
A history of the founding of California’s Jewish community during the Gold Rush.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814328590
Communings of the Spirit, Volume 1
The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, 1913-1934
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
ISBN: 9780814331163
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814325759
Envisioning Israel
The Changing Ideals and Images of North American Jews
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
ISBN: 9780814326305
Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism
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
ISBN: 9780814319963
Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century
A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan
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
ISBN: 9780814322802