FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, NOVEMBER 1993

Copyright © 1992 by Howard M. Sachar

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1992.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

American Jewish Archives: Excerpts from “Two Presidents and a Haberdasher—1948,” April 1968; and excerpts from “A Tragic Voyage” by Lena Pearlstein Berkman, April 1979. Reprinted by permission of American Jewish Archives .

American Jewish Historical Society: Excerpt from “German Jews in White Labor Servitude” by Guido Kisch, American Jewish Historical Quarterly; excerpt from “Desertion in the American Jewish Immigrant Family” by Ari Friedkis, American Jewish History (Dec. 1981). Reprinted by permission of the American Jewish Historical Society.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.: Excerpt from A Segment of My Times by Joseph Proskauer. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. Harvard University Press: Translation of “Upheaval and Efflux in Central Europe” from Germany and the Emigration 1816–1885 by Mack Walker. Copyright © 1964 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reprinted by permission of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. International Creative Management, Inc.: Excerpt from Poor Cousins by Ande Manners. Copyright © 1968 by Coward McCann & Geoghegan. Reprinted by permission of International Creative Management, Inc.

Jewish Publication Society: Excerpts from Memories of American Jews, 1775–1865 by Jacob R. Marcus, Vol. I and Vol. II, Philadelphia, 1955. Reprinted by permission of the Jewish Publication Society.

Jewish Social Studies: Excerpt from “Isaac Mayer Wise: A New Approach” by Aryeh Rubinstein, Jewish Social Studies , Winter–Spring, 1977. Reprinted by permission of Jewish Social Studies .

KTAV Publishing House, Inc .: Excerpts from poems by G. Zelicovich; Morris Rosenfeld; David Edelstadt; and Yosef Bovshover from Jewish Labor in the United States , 2nd ed., Vol. 1, KTAV, 1969. Reprinted by permission of KTAV Publishing House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sachar, Howard Morley, 1928-
A history of the Jews in America / Howard M. Sachar. — 1st
Vintage Books ed.
p. cm.

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Knopf, C1992.
Includes bibliographical references.
eISBN: 978-0-8041-5052-1

1. Jews—United States—History. 2. Judaism—United States—History.
3. United States—Ethnic relations. I. Title.
[E184.J5S23 1993]
973'04924—dc20 92–50612

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