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Using an engaging question-and-answer format, this illuminating and authoritative book provides answers to such questions as: Who were the Jews who came to New Amsterdam in 1654? Did the United States Constitution guarantee full religious equality to American Jews? How did the Civil War affect the Jews of the North? Who was the first Jewish governor of an American state? When was the first woman ordained a rabbi? Filled with information on religious and secular life, and drawing from a wide range of sources, including poems, jokes, and speeches, this eye-opening book covers every aspect of Jewish life in America. It will entertain and enlighten anyone looking for a bridge into the world of Jewish Americans from colonial times to the present.