Despite being the archetypal diasporic people, modern Jews have most often been studied as citizens and subjects of single nation states and empires-as American, Polish, Russian, or German Jews. This national approach is especially striking considering the renewed interest among scholars in global and transnational influences on the modern world. Editors Ava F. Kahn and Adam D. Mendelsohn offer a new approach in "Transnational Traditions: "" New Perspectives on American Jewish History "as contributors use transnational and comparative methodologies to place American Jewry into a broader...
Despite being the archetypal diasporic people, modern Jews have most often been studied as citizens and subjects of single nation states and empire...
Have Jews been successful because of cultural factors distinct to them as a group, or because of the particular circumstances that they encountered in America? Winner, 2016 Best First Book Prize from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society Finalist, 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
Winner, 2015 Book Prize from the Southern Jewish Historical Society
Finalist, 2015 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies
Winner, 2014 National Jewish Book Award in...
Have Jews been successful because of cultural factors distinct to them as a group, or because of the particular circumstance...
