A New Promised Land: A History of Jews in America » (New Edition)

Hasia R. Diner is Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor in American Jewish History at New York University. She is the author of Hungering for America : Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration, Jewish Americans: The Immigrant Experience, Jews in America (OUP, 1999), In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935,, A Time for Gathering: The Second Migration, 1820-1880 and Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present (with Beryl Lieff Benderly).

Beginning with the first arrival of Jews in New Amsterdam (now New York) in 1654, Diner (American Jewish history, New York U.) describes the history of Jewish immigration and community building in the United States. For her, the history of Jews in America is a history of Jews being allowed to flourish in a democratic political system and simultaneously working to expand democratic rights for themselves and others. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR