A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom by Adam Jortner National Jewish Book Award Winner and what we sacrifice to

and what we sacrifice to protect those we love

New York and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

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

New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin

A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom by Adam Jortner National Jewish Book Award Winner and what we sacrifice toA 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