Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America

National Jewish Book Award Winner: An "enlightening" history of how Jews forged their own religious culture as they ventured into the American wilderness (Choice).
Finalist, 2017 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, presented by the Jewish Book Council
Jews on the Frontier offers a religious history that begins in an unexpected place: on the road. Shari Rabin recounts the journey of Jewish people as they left Eastern cities and ventured into the American West and South during the nineteenth...