Adam Jortner

A Promised Land (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

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: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197536889
• Artikelnr.: 72255632

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