America's Pioneer Jewish Congregations
Title | America's Pioneer Jewish Congregations PDF eBook |
Author | Julian H. Preisler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Jewish architecture |
ISBN | 9781625450371 |
"The United States has the second largest Jewish community in the world with a wealth of history and architecture spanning 363 years. From the earliest Jewish congregations established in the original thirteen colonies, to the later congregations established in the central and western regions of the country, beautiful synagogues were built and vital communities were created and thrived. Jewish congregations and their members contributed to the life and success of small towns and large cities alike. America's Pioneer Jewish Congregations: Architecture, Community and History takes the reader on a tour of the oldest existing Jewish congregation in each of the 50 states plus Washington, DC, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. It highlights the history of each congregation and includes photographs of the various buildings that housed these congregations over the years. Some are one of only a few synagogues in a particular state, while others are part of a statewide Jewish community with hundreds of synagogues. The whole spectrum of American synagogue life is represented in all its diversity"--Page 4 of cover.
Pioneer Jews
Title | Pioneer Jews PDF eBook |
Author | Harriet Rochlin |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780618001965 |
Contributions of the Jewish men and women who helped shape the American frontier.
Jews on the Frontier
Title | Jews on the Frontier PDF eBook |
Author | I. Harold Sharfman |
Publisher | Rachelle Simon |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | History |
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"Although most Jews settled in the heavily populated Eastern cities, in forgotten records the author has discovered a colorful, important gallery of frontiersmen, traders, explorers, and military leaders, whose lives encompass the significant events of our history, from the French and Indian Wars to the Alamo"--Book jacket.
Major Noah: American-Jewish Pioneer
Title | Major Noah: American-Jewish Pioneer PDF eBook |
Author | Isaac Goldberg |
Publisher | |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 1936 |
Genre | Jews |
ISBN |
Sundays at Sinai
Title | Sundays at Sinai PDF eBook |
Author | Tobias Brinkmann |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2012-05-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226074560 |
First established 150 years ago, Chicago Sinai is one of America’s oldest Reform Jewish congregations. Its founders were upwardly mobile and civically committed men and women, founders and partners of banks and landmark businesses like Hart Schaffner & Marx, Sears & Roebuck, and the giant meatpacking firm Morris & Co. As explicitly modern Jews, Sinai’s members supported and led civic institutions and participated actively in Chicago politics. Perhaps most radically, their Sunday services, introduced in 1874 and still celebrated today, became a hallmark of the congregation. In Sundays at Sinai, Tobias Brinkmann brings modern Jewish history, immigration, urban history, and religious history together to trace the roots of radical Reform Judaism from across the Atlantic to this rapidly growing American metropolis. Brinkmann shines a light on the development of an urban reform congregation, illuminating Chicago Sinai’s practices and history, and its contribution to Christian-Jewish dialogue in the United States. Chronicling Chicago Sinai’s radical beginnings in antebellum Chicago to the present, Sundays at Sinai is the extraordinary story of a leading Jewish Reform congregation in one of America’s great cities.
Jewish Pioneers and Patriots
Title | Jewish Pioneers and Patriots PDF eBook |
Author | Lee Max Friedman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 486 |
Release | 1945 |
Genre | Jews |
ISBN |
Heritage of Faith
Title | Heritage of Faith PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Isaacs Klein |
Publisher | |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Jews |
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