Forged in America : How Irish-Jewish Encounters Shaped a Nation Hardback
Edited by Hasia R. Diner, Miriam Nyhan Grey
Part of the Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History series
Hardback
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Examines how Irish and Jewish Americans defined their place in a complex society. The story of America is the story of the unlikely groups of immigrants brought together by their shared outsider status.
Urban American life took much of its shape from the arrival of Irish and Jewish immigrants in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and Forged in America is the story of how Irish America and Jewish America collided, cooperated, and collaborated in the cities where they made their homes, all the while shaping American identity and nationhood as we know it. Bringing together leading scholars in their fields, this volume sheds light on the underexplored histories of Irish and Jewish collaboration.
While mutual antagonism was clearly evident, so too were opportunities for cooperation, as settled Irish immigrants served to model, mentor, and mediate for Jewish newcomers.
Together, the chapters in this volume draw fascinating portraits that show mutuality in action and demonstrate its cultural reverberations.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:New York University Press
- Publication Date:28/11/2023
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- ISBN:9781479826063
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:New York University Press
- Publication Date:28/11/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781479826063
