Goldstein-Goren American Jewish Studies Jews Across the Americas: A Sourcebook, 1492-Present, (Hardcover)

<p>An overview of the history of American Jewry using primary sources from Latin America, the<br>Caribbean, Canada, and the United States </p><p>Jews Across the Americas is a groundbreaking sourcebook capturing the historical diversity and cultural<br>breadth of American Jews across Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, and the United States. Featuring<br>primary documents as well as scholarly interpretations, Jews Across the Americas builds upon new<br>developments in Jewish Studies, engaging with transnationalism, race, sexuality, and gender, and<br>highlighting the lived experiences of those often left out of Jewish history. </p><p><i>Jews Across the Americas </i>features an impressively broad and far-reaching range of historical sources, <br>including artifacts and objects that have not previously been featured as integral to Jewish history in the<br>Western hemisphere. Entries teach readers how to understand everything from wills and<br>advertisements to sermons, and how to interpret photographs, domestic architecture, and comics.<br>Whether it's a recipe from Brazil that blends Moroccan and Amazonian foodways, or a text about the<br>first non-binary Jew to cross the Atlantic in the eighteenth century, each entry broadens our<br>understanding of Jewish American history.</p>

• Goldstein-Goren American Jewish Studies Jews Across the Americas: A Sourcebook, 1492-Present, (Hardcover)
• Author: New York University Press
• ISBN: 9781479819317
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2023-09-26
• Page Count: 552