The Mid-century Challenge to American Jewry
Author | : American Jewish Committee |
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Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 1950 |
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Author | : American Jewish Committee |
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Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 1950 |
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Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 1950 |
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Author | : Jacob Blaustein |
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Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Jews |
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Author | : Jacob Blaustein |
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Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Jews |
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Author | : Manfred Gerstenfeld |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780742542839 |
Watershed events - including the second Palestinian uprising in 2000, September 11 2001 and the Iraq war - have created major challenges for American Jewry, leading to changes in its perceptions and environment. Through conversations with some of America's most influential Jewish leaders, Manfred Gerstenfeld sheds light on the how the tumultuous events of recent years have affected and will continue to influence the American Jewish population. These include issues surrounding education, assimilation and revitalization, relationships with other religious communities, anti-Semitism and generational change. Of enormous historical value, American Jewry's Challenge serves as a time capsule capturing American Jewry at the dawn of the 21st century.
Author | : Christian Wiese |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2016-11-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1441180214 |
American Jewry explores new transnational questions in Jewish history, analyzing the historical, cultural and social experience of American Jewry from 1654 to the present day, and evaluates the relationship between European and American Jewish history. Did the hopes of Jewish immigrants to establish an independent American Judaism in a free and pluralistic country come to fruition? How did Jews in America define their relationship to the 'Old World' of Europe, both before and after the Holocaust? What are the religious, political and cultural challenges for American Jews in the twenty-first century? Internationally renowned scholars come together in this volume to present new research on how immigration from Western and Eastern Europe established a new and distinctively American Jewish identity that went beyond the traditions of Europe, yet remained attached in many ways to its European origins.
Author | : Harold Uriel Ribalow |
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Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Jews |
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Author | : Milton Plesur |
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Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Markus Krah |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2017-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 311049714X |
The postwar decades were not the “golden era” in which American Jews easily partook in the religious revival, liberal consensus, and suburban middle-class comfort. Rather it was a period marked by restlessness and insecurity born of the shock about the Holocaust and of the unprecedented opportunities in American society. American Jews responded to loss and opportunity by obsessively engaging with the East European past. The proliferation of religious texts on traditional spirituality, translations of Yiddish literature, historical essays , photographs and documents of shtetl culture, theatrical and musical events, culminating in the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof, illustrate the grip of this past on post-1945 American Jews. This study shows how American Jews reimagined their East European past to make it usable for their American present. By rewriting their East European history, they created a repertoire of images, stories, and ideas that have shaped American Jewry to this day.
Author | : Behrman House |
Publisher | : Behrman House, Inc |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2005-04-15 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780874417807 |
American Jews enter the twentieth century -- Jews in postwar America and beyond -- Being Jewish in America today.