Sanctioned Bigotry : A Documentary History of Antisemitism in the United Stat...

by Britt P. Tevis

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Sanctioned Bigotry : A Documentary History of Antisemitism in the United States, Hardcover by Tevis, Britt P. (EDT), ISBN 0300282540, ISBN-13 9780300282542, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US A first-ever documentary history of antisemitism in the United States, spanning five centuries In a 1790 letter to Rhode Island Jewish leader Moses Seixas, President George Washington responded to Seixas’s concerns about Jewish persecution, assuring him that America “gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, [and] requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.” Historians have typically identified this letter as a symbol of American Jewish exceptionalism, the idea that Jewish life in the United States has been qualitatively distinct from, indeed better than, Jewish life in Europe. Undergirding this idea is the claim that antisemitism has been a relatively minor force in American Jewish life. In this volume, Britt P. Tevis upends this narrative to reveal various manifestations of Jewish inequality in American history, highlighting the ways that Jews have encountered limited civil and political rights. Using a remarkable array of primary sources, Tevis traces the history of antisemitism in the United States from 1654 to 2024. Comprising government reports, judicial decisions, correspondence, advertisements, cartoons, social media posts, and more, this documentary reader presents examples of antisemitism in nine overlap

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2026
• ISBN: 9780300282542
• Condition: Fine

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