Abstract
"This comprehensive history of the Jews of Boston is now available in a revised and updated paperback edition, published on the 350th anniversary of Jewish life in America. The work combines illuminating essays by distinguished historians with 110 rare photographs to trace the community from its tentative beginnings in colonial Boston through its emergence in the twentieth century as one of the most influential and successful Jewish communities in America. The volume also presents information about Boston's synagogues and Jewish neighborhoods as well as the evolution of Jewish culture in Boston and the United States. Since its first appearance in 1995, The Jews of Boston has become an often-imitated model for urban ethnic histories."--BOOK JACKET.