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A wondrous tale of American Judaism as the world's greatest success story, by the flamboyantly upbeat author of Jews, God and History (1964) and The Indestructible Jews (1971). According to Dimont, the first Jews to arrive--in search of safety and opportunity, not a haven for orthodoxy--had it made before they landed, thanks to the Old Testament hold on Colonial life (the Mosaic commandments, the Promised Land, the Puritan ethic); and thereafter, unhampered either by prejudice or by tyrannical rabbis, they dispersed along the frontier, instituted secular reforms (anticipating the German Reform movement), and prospered as merchants and bankers. This German-Jewish ""crowd"" also, says Dimont, ""'invented' modern philanthropy"" and, to tame their unruly Russian co-religionists, sponsored Conservative Judaism, more American than orthodoxy, more traditional than Reform. Subsequently, ""all the dissident elements of American Jewish society. . . coalesced to give birth to the first 'American Jews.'"" None of this--told with an emphasis on commanding personalities--is either wholly unfounded or totally novel, but it is so highly colored, so feeble as social history, and so full of holes th

Author

Max Dimont, Max I. Dimont

Publisher

New York : Simon and Schuster

Published

1978

Language

EN

ISBN

9780671242671

Subjects

History, Judaism, Religion