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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456081503321

Autore

Moore Deborah D

Titolo

American Jewish Identity Politics [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-44528-6

9786612445286

0-472-02464-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Disciplina

973.04924

Soggetti

Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- United States

Jews -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Jews -- United States -- History -- 21st century

Jews -- United States -- Identity

Judaism -- United States

Jews - History - 20th century - United States

Jews - History - 21st century - United States

Jews - Identity - United States

Jews - Cultural assimilation - United States

Judaism - United States

Identity politics - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents ""; ""Introduction / Deborah Dash Moore""; ""The Politics of Holocaust Identity""; ""When Jews Were GIs: How World War II Changed a Generation and Remade American Jewry / Deborah Dash Moore""; ""The Americanization of the Holocaust / Alvin H. Rosenfeld""; ""Before “The Holocaust�: American Jews Confront Catastrophe, 1945�62 / Hasia R. Diner""; ""Religious Identities in Public and Private""; ""Rethinking American Judaism / Arnold M. Eisen""; ""American Judaism in Historical Perspective / Jonathan D. Sarna""

""From Fluidity to Rigidity: The Religious Worlds of Conservative and Orthodox Jews in Twentieth-Century America / Jeffrey S. Gurock""""New



Directions in Jewish Theology in America / Arthur Green""; ""Identity Politics""; ""Jewish Feminism Faces the American Women�s Movement: Convergence and Divergence / Paula E. Hyman""; ""The Paradoxes of American Jewish Culture / Stephen J. Whitfield""; ""A Demographic Revolution in American Jewry / Egon Mayer""; ""Relatively Speaking: Constructing Identity in Jewish and Mixed-Married Families / Sylvia Barack Fishman""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""