A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom by Adam Jortner Yiddish Learning Yiddish today is becoming the

Yiddish today is becoming the darling of academia

a book of bold

including editors Elizabeth Mandel

A year later

Ziv and Kiva aren’t so sure

A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom by Adam Jortner Yiddish Learning Yiddish today is becoming theA 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