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Why is America different? : American Jewry on its 350th anniversary / ed. by Steven T. Katz

Katz, Steven T., 1944-

Lanham, Md. [u.a.] : Univ. Press of America [c 2010], c 2010Lanham, Md. [u.a.] : Univ. Press of America [c 2010]

VI, 354 S. : ill ; 24 cm

Englisch

In place of an introduction : some thoughts on American Jewish exceptionalism / Steven T. Katz

Enlightenment, statesmen and the Jews in Europe and the United States, 1776-1820 / Allan Arkush

American exceptionalism : the case of the Jews, 1750-1850 / Frederic Cople Jaher

Why and how are Americans different? / Hasia Diner

Immigrant Jews and the challenge of American athleticism / Jeffrey Gurock

America's most memorable Zionist leaders / Jonathan D. Sarna

Encountering Jewish feminism / Pamela S. Nadell

Judaism and the pluralist dynamic / Peter L. Berger

From Treifene Medina to Goldene Medina : changing perspectives on the United States among American Haredim / Chaim I. Waxman

From many, one? Reflections on the notion of American Jews / Arnold Eisen

Superbowl parties, women rabbis and freedon seders : twenty-first century Jewish American synergy / Rela Mintz Geffen

American anti-Semitism : the myth and reality of American exceptionalism / Michael N. Dobkowski

To make "a Jew" : projecting anti-Semitism in post-war America / Donald Weber

Jews in the United States : how good it has been / Leonard Dinnerstein

Anti-Semitism today / Abraham Foxman

The NYT : the newspaper American Jews love to hate / Ari L. Goldman

Confessions of a Jewish journalist / Gary Rosenblatt

Portraits of America in Jewish culture / Stephen J. Whitfield

Yiddishkeit and the American Jewish writer : the breakthrough reconsidered / Eugene Goodheart

Cinema as a lens on America's Jews / Eric A. Goldman

What makes America different : Jewish artists and their concerns in the twentieth century / Ori Z. Soltes

Studies in hysteria, or Jewish comedy from Shtetlakh to Shticklakh / Mark Shechner

The transformation of traditional Jewish music in Jewish America / Hankus Netsky

America : memories of doubts and hope / Elie Wiesel.

Includes bibliographical references

eb 20240324 ; 1 (Rechtsgrundlage DE-4165)

Erscheint auch als: Why is America different? (Online-Ausgabe)

0-7618-4768-5 ; 0-7618-4769-3 ((pbk.)); 978-0-7618-4768-7 ; 978-0-7618-4769-4 ( : (pbk.))

2009931860

OCoLC: 705989870     

E184.36.S65

973/.04924 ; 973.04924     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 15.96 (Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes außerhalb des Staates Israel)

SSG-Nummer(n): 7,26; 0

LOC-SH: Jews -- United States -- Social life and customs ; Jews in motion pictures ; Jews -- Social life and customs -- United States ; Jews in motion pictures

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