The Jewish American Family Album

by Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler

Book Overview

As long ago as September 1654, 23 Jews disembarked from a ship named the Sainte Catherine into New Amsterdam--today's New York City. They came to find a safe haven from oppression and religious persecution and to seek economic opportunity. But even they were not the first Jewish Americans, and they were certainly not the last. Three million Jewish immigrants followed in the next three centuries. Today, about 4 out of every 10 Jews in the world are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195081358
• ISBN13: 9780195081350
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 11.4" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9