Status
Available
Call number
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Publication
NYU Press (2017), 208 pages
Description
'Jews on the Frontier' is a religious history of the United States that begins in an unexpected place: on the road with mobile Jews. It follows them out of eastern cities and into the American frontier, where they found unprecedented economic opportunity but also anonymity, loneliness, instability, mistrust, scarcity, and diversity, all of which complicated the many legal obligations of traditional Jewish life.
Awards
National Jewish Book Award (Winner — 2017)
Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature (Finalist — 2018)
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
208 p.; 6.3 inches
ISBN
147983047X / 9781479830473
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