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A unique people in a unique land : essays on American Jewish history /
"This book is a collection of two dozen essays published over the past four decades on American Jewish history and culture. They discuss the role that Jews have played in American culture, sports, politics, business, and religion, as well as the nature of American antisemitism. The essays argue...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Brookline, MA :
Academic Studies Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Studies in Orthodox Judaism.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part one. Identity. The mystery of American Jewish identity
- The Jewishness of the New York intellectuals : Sidney Hook, a test case
- Will Herberg's Protestant-Catholic-Jew : a critique
- The impact of war : America's Jews and World War II
- Part two. Religion. A shtetl in the sun : orthodoxy in southern Florida
- The crisis of conservative Judaism
- Modern orthodoxy in crisis : a test case
- The decline and rise of secular Judaism in America
- Part three. Antisemitism. John Higham and American antisemitism
- The World Labor Athletic Carnival of 1936 : an American anti-Nazi protest
- The approach of war : congressional isolationism and antisemitism, 1939-1941
- Antisemitism Mississippi style
- The educational crusade of George W. Armstrong
- Interpretations of the Crown Heights riot
- The cognitive dissonance of American Jews
- Part four. Business. Jewish historians and American capitalism
- The absent American Jewish business mogul
- From participant to owner : the role of Jews in contemporary American sports
- Part five. Politics. Waiting for righty? : An interpretation of the political behavior of American Jews
- Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and American Jewish memory
- Jewish intellectuals and the American conservative movement.