Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America

by Shari Rabin

Book Overview

Winner, 2017 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies from the Jewish Book Council
Finalist, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature

An engaging history of how Jews forged their own religious culture on the American frontier

Jews on the Frontier offers a religious history that begins in an unexpected place: on the road. Shari Rabin recounts the journey of Jewish people as they left Eastern cities and ventured into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479835838
• ISBN13: 9781479835836
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"