{"product_id":"gentile-new-york-gil-ribak-9780813551647","title":"Gentile New York: The Images of Non-Jews Among Jewish Immigrants","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe very question of \"what do Jews think about the goyim\" has fascinated Jews and Gentiles, anti-Semites and philo-Semites alike. Much has been written about immigrant Jews in nineteenth- and twentieth-century New York City, but Gil Ribak's critical look at the origins of Jewish liberalism in America provides a more complicated and nuanced picture of the Americanization process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGentile New York\u003c\/i\u003e examines these newcomers' evolving feelings toward non-Jews through four critical decades in the American Jewish experience. Ribak considers how they perceived Gentiles in general as well as such different groups as \"Yankees\" (a common term for WASPs in many Yiddish sources), Germans, Irish, Italians, Poles, and African Americans. As they discovered the complexity of America's racial relations, the immigrants found themselves at odds with \"white\" American values or behavior and were drawn instead into cooperative relationships with other minorities. Sparked with many previously unknown anecdotes, quotations, and events, Ribak's research relies on an impressive number of memoirs, autobiographies, novels, newspapers, and journals culled from both sides of the Atlantic.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gil Ribak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813551641\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813551647\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/19\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.10w x 1.00d","brand":"Gil Ribak","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48850138235135,"sku":"9780813551647","price":61.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gentile-new-york-gil-ribak-9780813551647","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}