Encyclopedia of American Jewish history / Stephen H. Norwood and Eunice G. Pollack, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. Immigration and settlement -- Demographic and economic profiles of twentieth-century American Jewry -- Judaism in America -- Jewish communities -- Antisemitism in America -- Zionism in America -- The Holocaust and America -- Jewish organizations -- Jews and the press -- American Jews in political and social movements -- Jews in wars and the military -- American Jews and the law -- American Jews and crime -- American Jews and labor -- volume 2. American Jews in business and philanthropy -- Intergroup relations -- American Jews in entertainment and popular culture -- American Jews in sports -- American Jewish novelists, essayists, poets, and playwrights -- American Jewish literary critics -- American Jews and art -- American Jews and music -- American Jews and the social sciences -- American Jews in science -- American Jews and education -- Jewish history and American Jewish historians.

Virtually every aspect of American culture has been profoundly influenced by Jewish immigrants and their descendants.