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Forged in America: How Irish-Jewish Encounters Shaped a Nation

Forged in America: How Irish-Jewish Encounters Shaped a Nation

Diner, Hasia R.
Grey, Miriam Nyhan

Hardcover

Series: Goldstein-Goren American Jewish Studies

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral World HistoryIrish History

ISBN10: 1479826065
ISBN13: 9781479826063
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Nov 28 2023
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Examines how Irish and Jewish Americans defined their place in a complex society.

The story of America is the story of the unlikely groups of immigrants brought together by their shared outsider status. Urban American life took much of its shape from the arrival of Irish and Jewish immigrants in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and Forged in America is the story of how Irish America and Jewish America collided, cooperated, and collaborated in the cities where they made their homes, all the while shaping American identity and nationhood as we know it.

Bringing together leading scholars in their fields, this volume sheds light on the underexplored histories of Irish and Jewish collaboration. While mutual antagonism was clearly evident, so too were opportunities for cooperation, as settled Irish immigrants served to model, mentor, and mediate for Jewish newcomers. Together, the chapters in this volume draw fascinating portraits that show mutuality in action and demonstrate its cultural reverberations.

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