ISBN:
0472116487
,
0472032887
,
9780472116485
,
9780472032884
Language:
English
Pages:
336 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst.
,
23cm
Year of publication:
2008
DDC:
973/.04924
Keywords:
Jews History 20th century
;
Jews History 21st century
;
Jews Identity
;
Jews Cultural assimilation
;
Judaism
;
Jews United States
;
History
;
20th century
;
Jews United States
;
History
;
21st century
;
Jews United States
;
Jews Identity
;
Jews United States
;
Cultural assimilation
;
Judaism United States
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Juden
;
Politische Identität
;
USA
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
Abstract:
When Jews were GIs: how World War II changed a generation and remade American Jewry / Deborah Dash Moore -- The Americanization of the Holocaust / Alvin H. Rosenfeld -- Before "the Holocaust": American Jews confront catastrophe, 1945-62 / Hasia R. Diner -- Rethinking American Judaism / Arnold M. Eisen -- American Judaism in historical perspective / Jonathan Sarna -- From fluidity to rigidity: the religious worlds of conservative and Orthodox Jews in twentieth-century America / Jeffrey S. Gurock -- New directions in Jewish theology in America / Arthur Green -- Jewish feminism faces the American women's movement: convergence and divergence / Paula Hyman -- The paradoxes of American Jewish culture / Stephen J. Whitfield / A demographic revolution in American Jewry / Egon Mayer -- Relatively speaking: constructing identity in Jewish and mixed-married families / Sylvia Barack Fishman
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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