In celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the American Jewish Archives and its current director Gary P. Zola, this festschrift combines articles on Jewish life in America
from the arrival of Jews in New Amsterdam to the nostalgia of the film Yentl. Nadell (history, American University), Sarna (history, Brandeis University) and Rabbi Sussman have selected essays
that reflect the burgeoning field of American Jewish history. There are studies covering Yiddish in America, the Jews of the South, the growth of Hanukkah as a form of assimilation, and other
examples of Jewish adjustment to America. There are also interesting micro-studies of individuals such as Henrietta Szold and Robert King Merton. A look at the integration of Jews into the
largely Protestant campus of the University of Oregon in the twenties is a good example of a fascinating investigation into an area that is generally not part of American Jewish studies.
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