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Embracing a Western Identity: Jewish Oregonians, 1849-1950
Ellen Eisenberg
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Description for Embracing a Western Identity: Jewish Oregonians, 1849-1950
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 30 black & white photographs & illustrations, tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
Not all of Oregon’s pioneers were Christian farmers or bachelor prospectors. Indeed, many of the first brick buildings on Oregon’s newly platted Main Streets were built by Jewish merchants whose services were essential to town founding and growth.
In Embracing a Western Identity, Ellen Eisenberg places Jewish history in the larger context of western narratives, challenging the traditional view that the “authentic” North American Jewish experience stems from New York. The westward paths of Jewish Oregonians and their experiences of place shaped the communities, institutions, and identities they created, distinguishing them from other American Jewish communities. Eisenberg traces the ... Read more
Not all of Oregon’s pioneers were Christian farmers or bachelor prospectors. Indeed, many of the first brick buildings on Oregon’s newly platted Main Streets were built by Jewish merchants whose services were essential to town founding and growth.
In Embracing a Western Identity, Ellen Eisenberg places Jewish history in the larger context of western narratives, challenging the traditional view that the “authentic” North American Jewish experience stems from New York. The westward paths of Jewish Oregonians and their experiences of place shaped the communities, institutions, and identities they created, distinguishing them from other American Jewish communities. Eisenberg traces the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Corvallis, OR, United States
ISBN
9780870718182
SKU
V9780870718182
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About Ellen Eisenberg
Ellen Eisenberg is the Dwight and Margaret Lear Professor of American History at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, USA, where she has taught since 1990. She is the author of Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882-1920, The First to Cry Down Injustice: Western Jews and Japanese Removal during WWII (a 2008 National Jewish Book Award finalist), and Jews of ... Read more
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