{"product_id":"transnational-traditions-new-perspectives-on-american-jewish-history-9780814338612","title":"Transnational Traditions: New Perspectives on American Jewish History","description":"\u003cp\u003eDespite 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 \u003cem\u003eTransnational Traditions: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e New Perspectives on American Jewish History \u003c\/em\u003eas contributors use transnational and comparative methodologies to place American Jewry into a broader context of cultural, commercial, and social exchange with Jews in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and South America.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In examining patterns that cross national boundaries, contributors offer new ways of understanding the development of American Jewish life. The diverse chapters, written by leading scholars, reflect on episodes of continuity and contact between Jews in America and world Jewry over the past two centuries. Individual case studies cover a range of themes including migration, international trade, finance, cultural interchange, acculturation, and memory and commemoration. Overall, this volume will expose readers to the variety and complexity of transnational experiences and encounters within American Jewish history.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Accessible to students and scholars alike, \u003cem\u003eTransnational Traditions\u003c\/em\u003e will be appropriate as a classroom text for courses on modern Jewish, ethnic, immigration, world, and American history. No other single work in the field systematically focuses on this subject, nor covers the range of themes explored in this volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-2797049\"\u003eAva F. Kahn\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wayne State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.97h x 6.28w x 0.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814338612\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814338615\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS022000\"\u003eJewish | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS049000\"\u003eEssays\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC007000\"\u003eEmigration \u0026amp; Immigration\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAva F. Kahn is a former research associate at the Western Jewish History Center of the Magnes Museum and fellow at the California Studies Center, Berkeley. Her publications include \u003ci\u003eJewish Voices of the California Gold Rush: A Documentary History 1849-1880\u003c\/i\u003e (Wayne State University Press, 2002), \u003ci\u003eJewish Life in the American West, California Jews, \u003c\/i\u003eco-edited with Marc Dollinger, and \u003ci\u003eJews of the Pacific Coast: Reinventing Community on America's Edge, \u003c\/i\u003e co-authored with Ellen Eisenberg and William Toll. At present she is working on a documentary film on Jewish reinvention in post-1960s America and researching the role of American Jews in the military and in the home front during WWI.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Adam D. Mendelsohn is associate professor of Jewish studies and director of the Pearlstine\/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture at the College of Charleston. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rag Race: How Jews Sewed their Way to Success in America and British Empire \u003c\/i\u003e(New York University Press, 2014) and editor, with Jonathan D. Sarna, of \u003ci\u003eJews and the Civil War: A Reader.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wayne State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44443582759149,"sku":"9780814338612","price":54.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_6b2dcfaa-c2ff-4597-ad74-a97cdf6a8010.jpg?v=1700232775","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/transnational-traditions-new-perspectives-on-american-jewish-history-9780814338612","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}