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Article: Jews and Gentiles in Early America: 1654-1800.(Book review)
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Jews and Gentiles in Early America: 1654-1800, by William Pencak. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. 321 pp. $29.95.
Jews and Gentiles in Early America fills an important gap in the scholarship on American Jewish history and the history of early America. It offers a community-by-community analysis of how Jews, a numerically insignificant but still visible element in the population, fit into the political and cultural world of America, from the years of the first settlement in the middle of the seventeenth century through the early national period, with the book ending in 1800. Pencak has organized his material, chapter by chapter, geographically, devoting his ...