The Jews’ Indian

Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America

David S. Koffman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

286 Seiten

2019
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-0086-1 (ISBN)

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Investigates the history of American Jewish relationships with Native Americans, both in the realm of cultural imagination and in face-to-face encounters. Focusing on the ways Jewish class mobility and civic belonging were wrapped up in the dynamics of power and myth making that so severely impacted Native Americans, this book is provocative and timely.

Winner of the 2020 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Social Science, Anthropology, and Folklore

Honorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize

The Jews’ Indian investigates the history of American Jewish relationships with Native Americans, both in the realm of cultural imagination and in face-to-face encounters. These two groups’ exchanges were numerous and diverse, proving at times harmonious when Jews’ and Natives people’s economic and social interests aligned, but discordant and fraught at other times. American Jews could be as exploitative of Native cultural, social, and political issues as other American settlers, and historian David Koffman argues that these interactions both unsettle and historicize the often triumphant consensus history of American Jewish life. Focusing on the ways Jewish class mobility and civic belonging were wrapped up in the dynamics of power and myth making that so severely impacted Native Americans, this books is provocative and timely, the first history to critically analyze Jewish participation in, and Jews’ grappling with the legacies of Native American history and the colonial project upon which America rests.

DAVID S. KOFFMAN is an assistant professor of history at York University in Toronto, Canada. He is also the editor-in-chief of the journal Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes.

Contents

Introduction: Exile and Aboriginality, Kinship and Distance

1 Inventing Pioneer Jews in the New Nation’s New West

2 Land and the Violent Expansion of the Immigrants’ Empire

3 Jewish Middlemen Merchants, Indian Curios, and the Extensions of American Capitalism

4 Jewish Rhetorical Uses of Indians in an Era of Nativist Anxieties

5 Jewish Advocacy for Native Americans On and Off Capitol Hill

6 Anthropological Ventriloquism and Dovetailing Intellectual and Political Advancements

Conclusion:

Paths of Persecution, Stakes of Colonial Modernity

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.01.2019
Zusatzinfo	24 b-w
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-0086-X / 197880086X
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-0086-1 / 9781978800861
Zustand	Neuware