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Torn at the Roots : The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America /

When Jewish neoconservatives burst upon the political scene, many people were surprised. Conventional wisdom held that Jews were uniformly liberal. This book explodes the myth of a monolithic liberal Judaism. Michael Staub tells the story of the many fierce battles that raged in postwar America over...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Staub, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2004]
Colección:Religion and American Culture
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • "Making My Jewishness Too Visible": An Introduction
  • 1. "The Racists of America Fly Blindly at Both of Us" Atrocity Analogies and Anticommunism
  • 2. "Liberal Judaism Is a Contradiction in Terms" Antiracist Zionists, Prophetic Jews, and Their Critics
  • 3. "Artificial Altruism Sows Only Seeds of Error and Chaos" Desegregation and Jewish Survival
  • 4. "Protect and Keep" Vietnam, Israel, and the Politics of Theology
  • 5. "If There Was Dirty Linen, It Had to Be Washed" Jews for Urban Justice and Radical Judaism
  • 6. "We Are Coming Home" New Left Jews and Radical Zionism
  • 7. "Are You Against the Jewish Family?" Debating the Sexual Revolution
  • 8. "If We Really Care About Israel" Breira and the Limits of Dissent
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index