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Berman Lila Corwin <1976-> |
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Speaking of Jews [[electronic resource] ] : rabbis, intellectuals, and the creation of an American public identity / / Lila Corwin Berman |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-77260-0 |
9786612772603 |
0-520-94370-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (281 p.) |
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Collana |
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The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Jews - United States - Identity |
Jews - United States - Social conditions - 20th century |
Jewish leadership - United States - History - 20th century |
Judaism and the social sciences |
Religion and sociology - United States |
United States Ethnic relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-251) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Presenting Jews to America -- 1. Spiritual Missions after the Great War: The Reform Movement and the Jewish Chautauqua Society -- 2. The Ghetto and Beyond: The Rising Authority of American Jewish Social Science in Interwar America -- 3. The Sacred and Sociological Dilemma of Jewish Intermarriage -- 4. Serving the Public Good and Serving God in 1940's America -- 5. Constructing an Ethnic America: Oscar Handlin, Nathan Glazer, and Post-World War II Social Research -- 6. What Is a Jew? Missionaries, Outreach, and the Cold War Ethnic Challenge -- 7. A Jewish Marilyn Monroe and the Civil-Rights-Era Crisis in Jewish Self-Presentation -- Conclusion: Speaking of Jews -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Lila Corwin Berman asks why, over the course of the twentieth century, American Jews became increasingly fascinated, even obsessed, with explaining themselves to their non-Jewish neighbors. What she discovers is that language itself became a crucial tool for Jewish group |
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survival and integration into American life. Berman investigates a wide range of sources-radio and television broadcasts, bestselling books, sociological studies, debates about Jewish marriage and intermarriage, Jewish missionary work, and more-to reveal how rabbis, intellectuals, and others created a seemingly endless array of explanations about why Jews were indispensable to American life. Even as the content of these explanations developed and shifted over time, the very project of self-explanation would become a core element of Jewishness in the twentieth century. |
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