Forged in America How Irish-Jewish Encounters Shaped a Nation
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Hasia R. Diner (Editor)Hasia R. Diner is Professor Emerita at the Departments of History and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, and Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History. Among her many books are Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration, The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000, We Remember With Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945–1962, and Immigration: An American History, with Carl Bon Tempo.
Miriam Nyhan Grey (Editor)
Miriam Nyhan Grey has been affiliated with NYU’s Glucksman Ireland House in various roles since 2008. Her first book is a social history of Ireland’s only Ford factory and she is the editor of Ireland’s Allies: America and the 1916 Easter Rising. A regular co-editor of the American Journal of Irish Studies, Grey was the inaugural associate editor of the NYU Press Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series. In 2019, she originated the acclaimed Black, Brown and Green Voices project at NYU.
"Packed with surprises, this pioneering work of comparative scholarship in ethnic relations highlights many parallels between the two groups."
- Stephen Whitfield, Jewish Book Council
"An impressive contribution to the field of ethnic and immigration history. Forged in America is broad and diverse in the topics it considers and in the methods and approaches of the uniformly accomplished scholars involved. Readers will encounter new insights into a wide range of political and cultural topics connecting these two important groups."
- David Brundage, University of California, Santa Cruz,
""Tells a rich story of a varied and highly transactional communal relationship." - Robert Siegel, <i>Moment Magazine</i>"
https://momentmag.com/hasia-r-diners-book/
"Together the 10 essays (six are cited here), with the foreword and the introduction, go a long way towards beginning to tell the story of how Irish-Jewish encounters played a role in 19th- and 20th-century American life."
The Irish Echo
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Hasia R. Diner (Editor)Hasia R. Diner is Professor Emerita at the Departments of History and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, and Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History. Among her many books are Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration, The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000, We Remember With Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945–1962, and Immigration: An American History, with Carl Bon Tempo.
Miriam Nyhan Grey (Editor)
Miriam Nyhan Grey has been affiliated with NYU’s Glucksman Ireland House in various roles since 2008. Her first book is a social history of Ireland’s only Ford factory and she is the editor of Ireland’s Allies: America and the 1916 Easter Rising. A regular co-editor of the American Journal of Irish Studies, Grey was the inaugural associate editor of the NYU Press Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series. In 2019, she originated the acclaimed Black, Brown and Green Voices project at NYU.