ISBN:
9789047406426
,
9789004141094
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Year of publication:
2005
Series Statement:
Jewish Identities in a Changing World 4
Series Statement:
Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Survival Through Integration : American Reform Jewish Universalism and the Holocaust
Keywords:
Morgenstern, Julian
;
Antisemitism
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Jews Cultural assimilation
;
Reform Judaism Essence, genius, nature
;
Zionism
Abstract:
The book focuses on the most prominent exponents of the universalistic ideology of American Reform Judaism in the 1930s and 1940s. Those who attempted to maintain unquestioning fealty to the principles of universalistic Reform, even in view of the disheartening realities of the Holocaust, are the heroes of the plot that unfolds here. The way they struggled for their beliefs should be viewed as a point of departure for a more general discussion of the challenge posed by the Holocaust to the modern Jewish belief in the possibility and desirability of full cultural and social Jewish integration into non-Jewish society at large
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789047406426
Permalink
