Philip S. Foner. The Jews in American History, 1654-1865.

CONTENTS

1 – Jews in Colonial America

2 – Jews and the American Revolution

3 – Jews and Jeffersonian Democracy

4 – Jews in the War of 1812

5 – The Jewish Community on the Eve of the Civil War

6 – Jews and the Anti-Slavery Movement

7 – Jews and the Civil War

Appendices

Memorial of the Jews of Philadelphia. December, 1783

Correspondence between George Washington and Jewish Congregations

Letter of Benjamin Nones, August, 1800

Speech of Jacob Henry, 1809

Jewish Congregations in the United States in 1850

Bibliography