A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness: The Origins and Rise of Anti-Semitism in America

ISBN-13: 9780674790070 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 352 str.

Frederic Cople Jaher

Opis

Home to nearly one-half of the world's Jews, America also harbours its share of anti-Jewish sentiment. In a country founded on the principle of religious freedom, with no medieval past, no legal nobility and no national church, the questions arise of how anti-Semitism became a presence in America, and how did America's beginnings and history affect the course of this bigotry?