History of the Jews in America by Deborah Pessin, Hardcover

Like new condition - minor wear to corners, handwritten name on inside cover and blemish on inside front page. All other pages are clean. A very nice copy. Non-smoking home.

Synopsis:

The first group of Jews came to what is now the United States in 1654, when America still seemed a fearsome wilderness to most people in the Old World. Many more came after that ?rst brave group of pioneers. They came singly, in family units, in great waves, to the haven of the New World. This book is the story of how they came and why they came and what they did when they got here. And in a sense, this book is also an introduction to a greater story which is still to unfold. For the history of the Jews in this country, like the history of all the American people, covers a little more than three hundred years, a mere moment in the story of mankind. The future still stretches before us. The greatest achievements are yet to come for the builders of America, among them, the Jews.