The Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in AmericaThis is the first anthology in more than half a century to offer fresh insight into the history of Jews and Judaism in America. Beginning with six chronological survey essays, the collection builds with twelve topical essays focusing on a variety of important themes in the American Jewish and Judaic experience. The volume opens with early Jewish settlers (1654 1820), the expansion of Jewish life in America (1820 1901), the great wave of eastern