The Jews in America, 1621-1977

The Jews in America, 1621-1977
Author: Irving J. Sloan
Publisher: Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Oceana Publications
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1978
Genre: History
ISBN:

A chronology of Jews in America accompanies by pertinent documents.

The Jews in America, 1621-1977

The Jews in America, 1621-1977
Author: Irving J. Sloan
Publisher: Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Oceana Publications
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1978
Genre: History
ISBN:

A chronology of Jews in America accompanies by pertinent documents.

Jews in the Americas, 1621-1826

Jews in the Americas, 1621-1826
Author: Michael Hoberman
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto Limited
Total Pages: 1600
Release: 2013
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781848932425

This comprehensive collection of print and manuscript sources offers an illuminating history of one of the New World's few non-Christian communities of European origin. Issues such as race, intermarriage and slavery - overlooked in previous literature - are included and put in context. Wider issues of society, culture and economy are also considered, with the careers of several important Jewish merchants providing an insight into the economic history of the colonial and early republican eras. The sources in this collection come from the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. They include texts translated from Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Hebrew, making them accessible to most scholars for the first time.

Community and Polity

Community and Polity
Author: Daniel Judah Elazar
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2001
Genre: Jews
ISBN: 1590450671

Multiculturalism in the United States

Multiculturalism in the United States
Author: John D. Buenker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2005-03-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0313062730

Interest in ethnic studies and multiculturalism has grown considerably in the years since the 1992 publication of the first edition of this work. Co-editors Ratner and Buenker have revised and updated the first edition of Multiculturalism in the United States to reflect the changes, patterns, and shifts in immigration showing how American culture affects immigrants and is affected by them. Common topics that helped determine the degree and pace of acculturation for each ethnic group are addressed in each of the 17 essays, providing the reader with a comparative reference tool. Seven new ethnic groups are included: Arabs, Haitians, Vietnamese, Koreans, Filipinos, Asian Indians, and Dominicans. New essays on the Irish, Chinese, and Mexicans are provided as are revised and updated essays on the remaining groups from the first edition. The contribution to American culture by people of these diverse origins reflects differences in class, occupation, and religion. The authors explain the tensions and conflicts between American culture and the traditions of newly arrived immigrants. Changes over time that both of the cultures brought to America and of the culture that received them is also discussed. Essays on representative ethnic groups include African-Americans, American Indians, Arabs, Asian Indians, Chinese, Dominicans, Filipinos, Germans, Haitians, Irish, Italians, Jews, Koreans, Mexicans, Poles, Scandinavians, and the Vietnamese.

United States Jewry, 1776-1985

United States Jewry, 1776-1985
Author: Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 974
Release: 1989
Genre: Jews
ISBN: 9780814321881

The third volume covers the period from 1860 to 1920, beginning with the Jews, slavery, and the Civil War, and concluding with the rise of Reform Judaism as well as the increasing spirit of secularization that characterized emancipated, prosperous, liberal Jewry before it was confronted by a rising tide of American anti-Semitism in the 1920s.

Multiculturalism in the College Curriculum

Multiculturalism in the College Curriculum
Author: Marilyn Lutzker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 161
Release: 1995-03-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0313032726

Emphasizing that diversity in the curriculum is as much about a way of thinking as it is about specific information, Lutzker presents a compendium of innovative and practical classroom strategies and widely available information resources which will enable faculty to increase the multicultural content of their courses without necessarily making major changes in their accustomed methods of teaching. This is a handbook for college faculty in all disciplines who would like to increase the multicultural content of their courses, but have been reluctant to do so for a variety of reasons including an already overloaded syllabus, a lack of background in the subject, uncertainty about student reactions, or lack of time to make substantial changes in an existing syllabus. Administrators anxious to increase diversity in the curriculum of their institutions, but unable to fund large-scale curriculum revision projects, will also find this volume useful. Part I is concerned with classroom strategies and with student research projects. Starting with discussions of objectives and priorities, the underlying role of critical thinking, and the importance of language sensitivity, the book then describes specific classroom strategies useful for increasing diversity. The subsequent chapters are devoted to discussions of general guidelines for developing student projects with a multicultural perspective, innovative alternatives to the traditional term paper, and suggestions for multicultural student projects which do not require library research. Part I concludes with a discussion of possible student reactions to increased multiculturalism, and suggested approaches to those reactions. Part II is concerned with information resources which will be useful to instructors and to students. Fully annotated lists are provided in a variety of areas including widely available primary sources, specialized biographical directories, sources for sample syllabi in all disciplines, guides to ethnic and foreign press, to films and videos, and to electronic resources. Part II concludes with a discussion designed to increase efficiency in using the library catalog to locate information in multicultural subject areas. Appendices provide sample research worksheets, a list of small publishers and distributors of multicultural books, and an annotated bibliography.