The Americanization of the Jews
Electronic resources
Record details
- ISBN: 0814788807
- ISBN: 9780814788806
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1 online resource. - Publisher: New York : New York University Press, [1995]
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / Norman J. Cohen -- 1. Introduction: The Ironies of American Jewish History / Robert M. Seltzer -- 2. The View from the Old World: German-Jewish Perspectives / Steven M. Lowenstein -- 3. The View from the Old World: East European Jewish Perspectives / Jacob Kabakoff -- 4. Jewish Writers on the New Diaspora / Ruth R. Wisse -- 5. Movies in America as Paradigms of Accommodation / Stephen J. Whitfield -- 6. From Equality to Liberty: The Changing Political Culture of American Jews / Henry L. Feingold -- 7. Will Herberg's Path from Marxism to Judaism: A Case Study in the Transformation of Jewish Belief / David G. Dalin -- 8. The Anomalous Liberalism of American Jews / Nathan Glazer -- 9. Liberalism, Judaism, and American Jews: A Response / Jerold S. Auerbach -- 10. Zionism and American Politics / Melvin I. Urofsky -- 11. Spiritual Zionists and Jewish Sovereignty / Arthur A. Goren -- 12. Zion in the Mind of the American Rabbinate during the 1940s / David Ellenson -- 13. The Evolution of the American Synagogue / Jonathan D. Sarna -- 14. Consensus Building and Conflict over Creating the Young People's Synagogue of the Lower East Side / Jeffrey S. Gurock -- 15. Jewish in Dishes: Kashrut in the New World / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- 16. Feminism and American Reform Judaism / Ellen M. Umansky -- 17. Ezrat Nashim and the Emergence of a New Jewish Feminism / Paula E. Hyman -- 18. Conservative Judaism: The Ethical Challenge of Feminist Change / Judith Hauptman. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |