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Ambivalent Embrace : Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America /

"This new cultural history of Jewish life and identity in the United States after World War II focuses on the process of upward mobility. ... challenges the common notion that most American Jews unambivalently celebrated their generally strong growth in economic status and social acceptance dur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kranson, Rachel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Materially poor, spiritually rich: poverty in the postwar Jewish imagination
  • What now supports Jewish liberalism?: upward mobility and Jewish political identity
  • Pathfinders' predicament: negotiating middle-class Judaism
  • What kind of job is that for a nice Jewish boy?: masculinity in an upwardly mobile community
  • Hadassah makes you important: debating middle-class Jewish femininity
  • From generation to generation: the Jewish counterculture's critique of affluence.