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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812604903321

Autore

Penkower Monty Noam <1942->

Titolo

Twentieth century Jews : forging identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land / / Monty Noam Penkower

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Academic Studies Press, 2010

ISBN

1-61811-024-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Collana

Judaism and Jewish life

Disciplina

973/.04924

Soggetti

Jews - United States - Identity

Jews - Israel - Identity

United States Ethnic relations

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 (p. 357-383) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Kishinev pogrom of 1903 -- Abraham Isaac Selmanowitz: guardian of tradition -- The 'Jewish seat' of Justice Felix Frankfurter -- The genesis of the American Council for Judaism -- The Jewish Times of Arthur Hays Sulzberger -- The silences of Bialik -- A lost opportunity for Orthodoxy -- Haim Arlosoroff's murder and Israel's political divide -- Shlomo Ben-Yosef: from a British gallows to Israel's pantheon to obscurity.

Sommario/riassunto

This extensively-researched collection of essays lucidly explores how members of the ever-beleaguered Jewish people grappled with their identities during the past century in the United States and in Eretz Israel, the new centers of Jewry's long historical experience. With the pivotal 1903 Kishinev pogrom setting the stage, the author proceeds to examine how the Land of Promise across the Atlantic exerted different influences on Abraham Selmanovitz, Felix Frankfurter, the founders of the American Council for Judaism, and Arthur Hays Sulzberger. Professor Penkower then shows how the prospect of nationalism in the biblical Promised Land engendered other tensions and transformations, ranging from the plight of Hayim Nahman Bialik, to rivalry within the Orthodox Jewish camp, to on-going strife between the political Left and Right over the nature of the emerging Jewish state.