Keywords:
Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- United States -- Congresses
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Jews -- United States -- Identity -- Congresses
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Jews -- United States -- Politics and government -- Congresses
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Judaism -- United States -- Congresses
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United States -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses
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Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
How did Judaism, a religion so often defined by its minority status, attain equal footing in the trinity of Catholicism, Protestantism, and Judaism that now dominates modern American religious life?THE AMERICANIZATION OF THE JEWS seeks out the effects of this evolution on both Jews in America and an America with Jews. Although English, French, and Dutch Jewries are usually considered the principal forerunners of modern Jewry, Jews have lived as long in North America as they have in post- medieval Britain and France and only sixty years less than in Amsterdam. As one of the four especially cre
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
Online-Ressource (494 p)
ISBN:
9780814780015
Series Statement:
Reappraisals Jewish Social History Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=2081727
DDC:
305.892/4073
Language:
English
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Contributors; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: The Ironies of American Jewish History; PART ONE Imagining America; CHAPTER 2 The View from the Old World: German-Jewish Perspectives; CHAPTER 3 The View from the Old World: East European Jewish Perspectives; CHAPTER 4 Jewish Writers on the New Diaspora; CHAPTER 5 Movies in America as Paradigms of Accommodation; PART TWO Jews and the American Liberal Tradition; CHAPTER 6 From Equality to Liberty: The Changing Political Culture of American Jews
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CHAPTER 7 Will Herberg's Path from Marxism to Judaism: A Case Study in the Transformation of Jewish BeliefCHAPTER 8 The Anomalous Liberalism of American Jews; CHAPTER 9 Liberalism, Judaism, and American Jews: A Response; PART THREE Zionism in an American Setting; CHAPTER 10 Zionism and American Politics; CHAPTER 11 Spiritual Zionists and Jewish Sovereignty; CHAPTER 12 Zion in the Mind of the American Rabbinate during the 1940s; PART FOUR Traditional Religion in an American Setting; CHAPTER 13 The Evolution of the American Synagogue
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CHAPTER 14 Consensus Building and Conflict over Creating the Young People's Synagogue of the Lower East SideCHAPTER 15 Jewish in Dishes: Kashrut in the New World; PART FIVE The Impact of the Women's Movement; CHAPTER 16 Feminism and American Reform Judaism; CHAPTER 17 Ezrat Nashim and the Emergence of a New Jewish Feminism; CHAPTER 18 Conservative Judaism: The Ethical Challenge of Feminist Change; PART SIX Three Modes of Religiosity; CHAPTER 19 The Ninth Siyum Ha-Shas: A Case Study in Orthodox Contra-Acculturation; CHAPTER 20 Americanism and Judaism in the Thought of Mordecai M. Kaplan
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CHAPTER 21 The American Mission of Abraham Joshua HeschelPART SEVEN Surviving as Jews in Twenty-First-Century America; CHAPTER 22 Modern Times and Jewish Assimilation; CHAPTER 23 Jewish Continuity over Judaic Content: The Moderately Affiliated American Jew; CHAPTER 24 From an External to an Internal Agenda; CHAPTER 25 Jewish Survival, Antisemitism, and Negotiation with the Tradition; CHAPTER 26 American Jewry in the Twenty-First Century: Strategies of Faith; Index
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