The powerful story of antisemitism in America and how it has shaped the lives of Jews for almost four centuries.
Jews met antisemitism on landing in New Amsterdam in 1654 when Peter Stuyvesant tried to expel them. The founding of the US changed little, as negative European stereotypes rooted into American soil. They faced restrictions on holding office, admission to schools, and employment in industry, while their synagogues and cemeteries were vandalized. Recently, white nationalists chanted ?Jews will not replace us? in Charlottesville, Virgina, and a gunman killed eleven members at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue building. Antisemitic incidents have increased each year.
In Antisemitism, an American Tradition, scholar Pamela S. Nadell investigates the depth of this fraught history. She explores how Jews battles antisemitism through the law and by creating organizations to speak for them. Jews would also fight back with their fists or join with allies in fighting all types of hate. This momentous work sounds the alarm on a hatred that continues to plague our country.
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978-1-324-05065-0 (9781324050650)
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Pamela S. Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's and Gender History and directs the Jewish Studies Program at American University. Her works include America's Jewish Women, winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award's Jewish Book of the Year, and Women Who Would Be Rabbis. Past president of the Association for Jewish Studies, she lives in North Bethesda, Maryland.