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Gentile New York : the images of non-Jews among Jewish immigrants /
The very question of "what do Jews think about the goyim" has fascinated Jews and Gentiles, anti-Semites and philo-Semites alike. This critical look at the origins of Jewish liberalism in America provides a more complicated and nuanced picture of the Americanization process. Gentile New Yo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2012.
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| Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global cultural studies collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1. "Never Before Have Gentiles Hated Jews So Much": The Images of Non-Jews in Eastern European Jewish Society in the Late Nineteenth Century
- 2. "Lovers of Man": The Images of Americans among Eastern European Jews in the Last Third of the Nineteenth Century
- 3. "In Goodness They Even Exceed the English": The Idealization of "Yankees" in the 1880s and 1890s
- 4. "The American Is Not Very Musical and Not So Sociable": The Beginnings of an Attitudinal Change in the Early 1900s
- 5. "You Could Almost Forget That He Is Not a Jew": The Jewish Labor Movement and Secularized Chosenness, 1909-1914
- 6. "The 'Green' Italian Pays the Same Good Taxes as the 14-Karat Yankee": The War in Europe and the Beginnings of Reorientation toward Certain Minority Groups, 1914-1917
- 7. "What the American Can Do in His Anger": World War I and the Red Scare, 1917-1920
- Epilogue: Self-Image and Its Limitations
- A Note on Methodology and Sources
- Notes
- Index