Creating American Jews. Historical Conversation about Identity

Editor & Curator	Karen S. Mittelman.
Imprint	Philadelphia, Pa., USA, 1999. 88 pp., illustrations: 45 col., 29 b&w, 30 × 21 cm. English.
ISBN	189150701X
Location	National Museum of American Jewish History (Opening: 15 September 1998)
Description	The American Jewish experience, brought to life largely through the stories of individual, ordinary people who created their identities as American Jews. 4 essays “The Revolution in the American Synagogue” (Jonathan D. Sarna), “Pioneering: Jewish Men and Women of the American West” (William Toll), “Promises, Promises: The Jewish Romance with America” (Jenna Weissman Joselit), and “Jewish Identity, Assimilation and Multiculturalism” (David A. Hollinger). Basic unnumbered listing. 327 items.
main keywords	CEREMONIAL OBJECTS HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS PHOTOGRAPHS PORTRAITS UNITED STATES
minor keywords	Bar/Bat Mitzvah Candlesticks/Candelabra Circumcision implements/objects Cookbooks/Recipes Drawings/Sketches Hanukkah lamps Ketubbot Kiddush cups Miraim’s cups Myer Myers Needlework/Embroidery Paintings, synagogues Postcards Posters Rimmonim Samplers (needlework) Shana Tova greeting cards Synagogues, architecture Synagogues, United States Theater Torah binders Torah Ark curtains Torah Arks Torah Arks, fragments Torah arks, miniature Tzedakah boxes/containers Wedding/Marriage Women in Judaism

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