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"The extraordinary untold story of how Irish and Jewish immigrants worked together to secure legitimacy in America. Popular belief holds that the various ethnic groups that emigrated to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century regarded one another with open hostility, fiercely competing for limited resources and even coming to blows in the crowded neighborhoods of major cities. One of the most enduring stereotypes is that of rabidly anti-Semitic Irish Catholics, like Father Charles Coughlin of Boston and the sensationalized Gangs of New York trope of Irish street thugs attacking defenseless Jewish immigrants. In Opening Doors, Hasia Diner, one of the world's preeminent historians of immigration, tells a very different story; far from confrontational, the prevailing relationships between Jewish and Irish Americans were overwhelmingly cooperative, and the two groups were dependent upon one another to secure stable and upwardly mobile lives in their new home. The Irish had emigrated to American cities en masse a generation before the first major wave of Jewish immigrants arrived, and had already entrenched themselves in positions of influence in urban governments, public education, and the labor movement. Jewish newcomers recognized the value of aligning themselves with another group of religious outsiders who were able to stand up and demand rights and respect despite widespread discrimination from the Protestant establishment, and the Irish realized that they could protect their political influence by mentoring their new neighbors in the intricacies of American life. Opening Doors draws from a deep well of historical sources to show how Irish and Jewish Americans became steadfast allies in classrooms, picket lines, and political machines, and ultimately helped one another become key power players in shaping America's future. In the wake of rising anti-Semitism and xenophobia today, this informative and accessible work offers an inspiring look at a time when two very different groups were able to find common ground and work together to overcome bigotry, gain representation, and move the country in a more inclusive direction"--

Introduction / Hasia R. Diner -- 1. Exile and Diaspora in the Bible / Adele Berlin -- 2. Diaspora in Rabbinic Sources / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert -- 3. Diaspora in Jewish Liturgy / Ruth Langer -- 4. The Doctrine of Exile in Kabbalah / Sharon Flatto -- 5. The Jewish Diaspora in Christian Thinking / Joshua Garroway -- 6. Distinctiveness and Diaspora in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Thought / Michah Gottlieb -- 7. Diaspora in Modern Jewish Thought / Noam Pianko -- 8. Zionism and the Negation of the Diaspora / David Engel -- 9. The Intellectual Defense of the Diaspora / David Weinberg -- 10. The Territorial Ideology of the Diaspora / 1903-1957 / Gur Alroey -- 11. Babylonia: A Diaspora Center / Geoffrey Herman -- 12. Spain: A Diaspora Center / Jane Gerber -- 13. Jews in The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: An Embedded Diaspora / Magda Teter -- 14. A New World Babylonia: The United States of America / Deborah Dash Moore -- 15. The Mediterranean Jewish Diaspora of Late Antiquity / Ross S. Kraemer -- 16. Emergence of the Medieval Northern European Diaspora / Robert Chazan -- 17. Jews and Diaspora in the Medieval Islamic Middle East / Eve Krakowski -- 18. The Ashkenazic Diaspora of Early Modern Central Europe / Joshua Teplitsky -- 19. The Western Sephardic Diaspora / Miriam Bodian -- 20. The Mediterranean Sephardim between the 15th and 20th Centuries / Jonathan Ray -- 21. The Eastern European Jewish Diaspora / Tobias Brinkmann -- 22. German Jews Beyond Germany / Marion Kaplan -- 23. Holocaust Survivor Diasporas / Laura Jockusch and Avinoam J. Patt -- 24. The Modern Diasporas of the Jews from the Arab Middle East and North Africa / Daniel Schroeter -- 25. Israel and the Diaspora to 1967 / Ronald Zweig -- 26. The Jewish Israeli Diaspora / Steven J. Gold -- 27. Soviet Jews and the Future of the Global Jewish Diaspora / David Shneer -- 28. International Jewish Aid / Lisa Moses Leff -- 29. Global Jewish Organizations / David Slucki -- 30. Philanthropy and the Jewish Diaspora in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Zohar Segev -- 31. Reporting the Diaspora: The Global Jewish Press / Yaron Tsur -- 32. Speaking Across the Diaspora: Jewish Languages Beyond Borders / Benjamin Hary -- 33. Liturgical Music in the Jewish Diaspora / Mark Kligman -- 34. Jewish Food in the Diaspora / Ari Ariel.

From the 1820s through the 1920s, nearly ninety percent of all Jews who left Europe moved to the United States. In this new book from Hasia Diner, she focuses on the realities of race, immigration, color, money, economic development, politics, and religion in America that shaped its history and made it such an attractive destination for Jews. Additionally, she approaches the question from the perspective of an America that sought out white immigrants to help stoke economic development and that valued religion as a force for morality. These tendencies converged and provided a situation where Jews could experience life in ways impossible elsewhere

Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932) rose from modest means as the son of a peddler to immense wealth at the helm of Sears, Roebuck. Yet his most defining legacy stands not upon his business acumen but on the pioneering changes he introduced to the practice of philanthropy. While few may recall Rosenwald's name--he refused to have it attached to the buildings, projects, or endowments he supported--his passionate support of Jewish and African American causes continues to influence lives to this day. This biography of Julius Rosenwald explores his attitudes toward his own wealth and his distinct ideas about philanthropy, positing an intimate connection between his Jewish consciousness and his involvement with African Americans. The book shines light on his belief in the importance of giving in the present to make an impact on the future, and on his encouragement of beneficiaries to become partners in community institutions and projects. Rosenwald emerges from these pages as a compassionate man whose generosity and wisdom transformed the practice of philanthropy itself

Road warriors: the migration and the peddlers -- Road runners: Jewish peddlers in their new worlds -- Along the road: Jewish peddlers and their new-world customers -- Road rage: Jewish peddlers and the perils of the road -- The end of the road: life after peddling -- Legacies of the road: a conclusion

Introduction: Deeds and words -- Fitting memorials -- Telling the world -- The saving remnant -- Germany on their minds -- Wrestling with the postwar world -- Facing the Jewish future -- Conclusion: The corruption of history, the betrayal of memory