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050 00 $aE184.J5$bS9 1994
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100 1 $aSwierenga, Robert P.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50012958
245 14 $aThe forerunners :$bDutch Jewry in the North American diaspora /$cRobert P. Swierenga.
260 $aDetroit :$bWayne State University Press,$c1994.
263 $a9401
300 $a465 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aAmerican Jewish civilization series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 403-419) and index.
505 0 $aCh. 1. Netherlands Jewry -- Ch. 2. The Dutch Era: Immigration Before 1830 -- Ch. 3. New York City: The Bastion -- Ch. 4. Philadelphia: An Early Base -- Ch. 5. Boston: A Close Community -- Ch. 6. Baltimore: The Fells Point Settlement -- Ch. 7. New Orleans: A Secular Lot -- Ch. 8. The Great Lakes Frontier: The Restless Ones -- Ch. 9. San Francisco: An Instant Elite -- Ch. 10. The "Essence" of Dutch Jewry in America -- Appendix I Immigration Statistics -- Appendix II Dutch Jewish Household Heads and Working Adults in New York: 1850, 1860, 1870 Censuses -- Appendix III Dutch Jewish Household Heads and Working Adults in Philadelphia: 1850, 1860, 1870 Censuses.
520 $aBetween 800 and 1880 approximately 6,500 Dutch Jews immigrated to the United States to join the hundreds who had come during the colonial era. Although they numbered less than one-tenth of all Dutch immigrants and were a mere fraction of all Jews in America, the Dutch Jews helped build American Jewry and did so with a nationalistic flair. Like the other Dutch immigrant groups, the Jews demonstrated the salience of national identity and the strong forces of ethnic, religious, and cultural institutions.
520 8 $aThey immigrated in family migration chains, brought special job skills and religious traditions, and founded at least three ethnic synagogues led by Dutch lay rabbis.
520 8 $aThe Forerunners offers the first detailed history of the immigration of Dutch Jews to the United States and to the whole American diaspora. Robert Swierenga describes the life of Jews in Holland during the Napoleonic era and examines the factors that caused them to emigrate, first to the major eastern seaboard cities of the United States, then to the frontier cities of the Midwest, and finally to San Francisco.
520 8 $aHe provides a detailed look at life among the Dutch Jews in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Orleans.
520 8 $aTo provide such a comprehensive work on the Dutch Jews in America from the early colonial years to the modern period, Swierenga gathered materials from published local community histories, Jewish archival records and periodicals, synagogue records, and particularly, the Federal Populations Census manuscripts from 1820 through 1900.
520 8 $aHe details the contributions and the leadership provided by the Dutch Jews and relates how they lost their "Dutchness" and their Orthodoxy within several generations after their arrival here and were absorbed into broader American Judaism, especially German Reform Jewry.
520 8 $aThe story of Dutch Jewry in America is a complex and compelling subject, and until now, one that has been largely unexplored. Their history is important within the history of American Jewry because the Dutch were the forerunners, the early leaders of the synagogues and benevolent societies. Here is a significant volume for readers interested in Jewish history, religious history, and comparative studies of religious declension.
520 8 $aImmigrant and social historians likewise will be interested in this look at a religious minority group that was forced to change in the American environment.
650 0 $aJews, Dutch$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aJews$zNetherlands$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008122399
650 0 $aImmigrants$zUnited States$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009126771
651 0 $aUnited States$xEmigration and immigration.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140040
651 0 $aUnited States$xEthnic relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043
651 0 $aNetherlands$xEthnic relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116273
830 0 $aAmerican Jewish civilization series.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90673815
852 00 $bglx$hE184.J5$iS9 1994