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

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Harvard University Press, 1994 - 339 pages
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?
 

Contents

The Anatomy of AntiSemitism
1
Historical Outsider
17
Ambivalence at Americas Dawn
82
Progress and Problems in the Young Republic
114
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Frederic Cople Jaher was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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