Adam Jortner

A Promised Land

Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A Promised Land illuminates the key role that Jewish Americans and Judaism played in the country's founding, engaging the larger question of guaranteeing religious freedom at a critical juncture in American history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 710g
• ISBN-13: 9780197536865
• ISBN-10: 0197536867
• Artikelnr.: 68990174

Autorenporträt

Adam Jortner is Goodwin-Philpott Professor of History at Auburn University. He was a writer of the TV show Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? and the creator of series 10 Great What-Ifs in American History, as well as the Audible Originals series Faith and the Founding Fathers and American Monsters. He is the author of The Gods of Prophetstown: The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier, published by Oxford University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Rookim
1. Hebrew Letters
2. All Over the Map
3. The Rabbi of the Revolution
4. Jews at War
5. The Synagogue of the Revolution
6. A Possibility of Jews
7. "Congress Shall Make No Law"
8. Alien and Sedition
9. Democratization
10. The Black Synagogue
11. The Converts
12. The Jew Bill
Index
Bibliography