A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom by Adam Jortner National Jewish Book Award Winner New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin

New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin

The result is a moving historical family narrative that speaks to universal human themes—the resilience and hope of ordinary people surviving the ravages of history and human cruelty

but a deep understanding of true beauty

many of them share his emphasis on ethical and moral living as an essential element in Jewish religious practice

not that last one

A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom by Adam Jortner National Jewish Book Award Winner New Yorker writer Calvin TrillinA new history that centers Judaism at the dawn of the United States Jews played a critical role both in winning the American Revolution fighting for the Patriot cause from Bunker Hill to Yorktown and in defining the republic that was created from it. As the most visible non Christian religion, Judaism was central to the debate over religious freedom in America at a critical juncture. During the war every city with a synagogue fell to the British with