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The Struggle To Transcend Differences And Conflicts Among Early American Jewry, Eli Faber
The Struggle To Transcend Differences And Conflicts Among Early American Jewry, Eli Faber
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
Exploration of two contrary tendencies among colonial American Jews to achieve consensus within their religious fellowship. In one case, they relied upon European precedent by attempting to recreate the kehilla in America, while in the other they rejected European precedents that forbade commonality among Ashkenazim and Sepharadim. The outcome was a new kind of community: the voluntary one.
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- Minute Book of the Congregation Shearith Israel in New York (1730-1760)