American politics and the Jewish community : the Jewish role in American life / / Bruce Zuckerman, Dan Schnur, Lisa Ansell, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910619455203321
• Autore: Schnur Dan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Purdue University Press, 2013; West Lafayette, Indiana : , : Purdue University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 1-61249-300-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (171 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.8924
• Soggetti: Jews - Politics and government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: At its broadest level, politics is the practice of making a community a better, safer, and more tolerant place to live. So it should be of no surprise that America’s Jews have devoted themselves to civic engagement and the democratic process. From before the Revolutionary War to the early twenty-first century, when America saw the first Jewish vice presidential nominee of a major party and the first Jewish Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Jewish community has always devoted itself to public service, issue advocacy, and involvement in politics and government at every level. While strong support for the safety and security of the state of Israel has been a hallmark of US foreign policy since Israel’s founding, it is by no means the only policy area in which American Jews are involved. Nor are American Jews monolithic in their politics. Although the Jewish community has become a reliable part of the Democratic Party’s base in most partisan elections, American Jews represent a wide range of ideologies on most economic and foreign policy matters. In addition to becoming leaders in business and labor, in academia and in philanthropy, Jewish Americans have always helped shape the discussion over the issues that form the country’s future. In this volume, a mix of professors, graduate students, and lay people in the ; field of politics with a breadth of experience debate some central questions: Is Israel still the most important policy concern for American Jews? Why does the Jewish community vote Democratic in such overwhelming numbers? Can American Jews balance economic, security, and human rights concerns in a rapidly changing international community? And how will such profound transformations affect the role of America’s Jewish community as the United States seeks out its own role in domestic and global politics?

Not far from here : the Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver / / edited by Vasiliki Fachard and Robert Miltner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813298703321
• Autore: Fachard Vasiliki
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne, [United Kingdom] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014; 2014
• ISBN: 1-4438-5856-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Disciplina: 813.54
• Soggetti: American poetry - 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES; TEXTUAL STUDIES; BEGINNERS' LUCK; FROM "BEGINNERS" TO "WHAT WE TALK . . . "; FILM AND VISUAL STUDIES; 'SO WHY WOULD I WANT A PHOTOGRAPHOF THIS TRAGEDY?'; ATHREATENING FETISH; LITERARY STUDIES; SIGNS VS. SYMBOLS; LACK AND LEFTOVERS; LITERARY STUDIES; CELEBRATING THE MOMENT; 'WAITING FOR WHAT? I'D LIKE TO KNOW'; CONTRIBUTORS; PERMISSIONS; INDEX OF NAMES AND WORKS
• Sommario/riassunto: Hailed as the ""American Chekhov"" by the Times Literary Supplement, Raymond Carver is the most popular and influential American short-story writer since Ernest Hemingway. His works have been adapted to film and translated into more than twenty languages. Yet despite this ; international appeal, the critical attention to his writing has originated mostly in the US. In an attempt to expand the scope and range of Carver criticism, Not Far From Here: The Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver - based o...