The Jews' Indian : colonialism, pluralism, and belonging in America / David S. Koffman.

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. This book is the first history to analyze Jewish participation in, and Jews' grappling with the legacies of Native American history and the colonial project upon which America rests.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: EXILE AND ABORIGINALITY, KINSHIP AND DISTANCE -- INVENTING PIONEER JEWS IN THE NEW NATION'S NEW WEST -- LAND AND THE VIOLENT EXPANSION OF THE IMMIGRANTS' EMPIRE -- JEWISH MIDDLEMEN MERCHANTS, INDIAN CURIOS, AND THE EXTENSIONS OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM -- JEWISH RHETORICAL USES OF INDIANS IN AN ERA OF NATIVIST ANXIETIES -- JEWISH ADVOCACY FOR NATIVE AMERICANS ON AND OFF CAPITOL HILL -- ANTHROPOLOGICAL VENTRILOQUISM AND DOVETAILING INTELLECTUAL AND POLITICAL ADVANCEMENTS -- PATHS OF PERSECUTION, STAKES OF COLONIAL MODERNITY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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