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Twentieth century Jews : forging identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land /

This collection of essays explores how members of the ever-beleaguered Jewish people grappled with their identities during the past century in the United States and in Eretz Israel, the new centers of Jewry's long historical experience. With the pivotal 1903 Kishinev pogrom setting the stage, t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Penkower, Monty Noam, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2010.
Colección:Judaism and Jewish life.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This collection of essays explores how members of the ever-beleaguered Jewish people grappled with their identities during the past century in the United States and in Eretz Israel, the new centers of Jewry's long historical experience. With the pivotal 1903 Kishinev pogrom setting the stage, the author proceeds to examine how the Land of Promise across the Atlantic exerted different influences on Abraham Selmanovitz, Felix Frankfurter, the founders of the American Council for Judaism, and Arthur Hays Sulzberger. Professor Penkower then shows how the prospect of nationalism in the biblical Promised Land engendered other tensions and transformations, ranging from the plight of Hayim Nahman Bialik, to rivalry within the Orthodox Jewish camp, to on-going strife between the political Left and Right over the nature of the emerging Jewish state. --Book Jacket.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 402 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-383) and index.
ISBN:9781618110244
1618110241