A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness: The Origins and Rise of Anti-semitism in AmericaHarvard University Press, 1994 - 339 pàgines Home to nearly one-half of the world's Jews, America also harbours its share of anti-Jewish sentiment. In a country founded on the principle of religious freedom, with no medieval past, no legal nobility and no national church, the questions arise of how anti-Semitism became a presence in America, and how did America's beginnings and history affect the course of this bigotry? |
Continguts
The Anatomy of AntiSemitism | 1 |
Historical Outsider | 17 |
Ambivalence at Americas Dawn | 82 |
Progress and Problems in the Young Republic | 114 |
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A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness: The Origins and Rise of Anti-semitism in ... Frederic Cople Jaher Visualització de fragments - 1994 |
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