A Promised Land
Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom
- Publisher's listprice GBP 28.99
-
13 088 Ft (12 465 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 10% (cc. 1 309 Ft off)
- Discounted price 11 779 Ft (11 219 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
13 088 Ft
Availability
Estimated delivery time: In stock at the publisher, but not at Prospero's office. Delivery time approx. 3-5 weeks.
Not in stock at Prospero.
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 November 2024
- ISBN 9780197536865
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages342 pages
- Size 226x155x27 mm
- Weight 703 g
- Language English 541
Categories
Short description:
A Promised Land illuminates the key role that Jewish Americans and Judaism played in the country's founding, engaging the larger question of guaranteeing religious freedom at a critical juncture in American history.
MoreLong description:
A new history that centers Judaism at the dawn of the United States
Jews played a critical role both in winning the American Revolution--fighting for the Patriot cause from Bunker Hill to Yorktown--and in defining the republic that was created from it. As the most visible non-Christian religion, Judaism was central to the debate over religious freedom in America at a critical juncture. During the war every city with a synagogue fell to the British-with the exception of Philadelphia, birthplace to the Declaration of Independence and a core of resistance. Jewish patriots throughout the colonies flocked to the city, where they re-founded the local synagogue as a distinctively American organization. After the war, Jews began to press for full citizenship in the hope that liberty would apply to everyone, and that the limits to freedom imposed on Jews in the Old World would be removed in the New.
As Adam Jortner shows in this eye-opening account, the decision to extend citizenship to all religions was not a twentieth-century phenomenon prompted by immigration and Supreme Court rulings, but a debate the Founding generation itself had had-unambiguously deciding against the idea of nation defined exclusively by Christianity. Instead, the Founders, Jewish patriots, and their allies, sought and achieved the broadest possible definition of religious liberty, and the separation of church and state. A Promised Land sheds new light on this key struggle in early America and the driving forces behind it.
Jortner's research is unquestionably exhaustive, and the text occasionally overflows with biographical vignettes, which will appeal to readers with an interest in Jewish studies and early American history.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction: Rookim
1. Hebrew Letters
2. All Over the Map
3. The Rabbi of the Revolution
4. Jews at War
5. The Synagogue of the Revolution
6. A Possibility of Jews
7. "Congress Shall Make No Law"
8. Alien & Sedition
9. Democratization
10. The Black Synagogue
11. The Converts
12. The Jew Bill
Index
Bibliography
