Why is America different? : American Jewry on its 350th anniversary /

Does the American Jewish experience represent a singular communal circumstance, or does it repeat, with obvious and unavoidable variation, the older European pattern of Jewish existence? In 2004, on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the establishment of the American Jewish community, this que...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Katz, Steven T., 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, Inc., 2010.
Temas:
Jews > United States > Social life and customs.
Jews in motion pictures.
Juifs > États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes.
Juifs au cinéma.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Jews in motion pictures
Jews > Social life and customs
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; In Place of an Introduction: Some Thoughts on American Jewish Exceptionalism; Chapter 01. Enlightenment, Statesmen and the Jews in Europe and the United States, 1776-1820; Chapter 02. American Exceptionalism: The Case of the Jews, 1750-1850; Chapter 03. Why and How Are Americans Different?; Chapter 04. Immigrant Jews and the Challenge of American Athleticism; Chapter 05. America's Most Memorable Zionist Leaders; Chapter 06. Encountering Jewish Feminism; Chapter 07. Judaism and the Pluralist Dynamic.

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