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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822041503321

Autore

Feingold Henry L. <1931->

Titolo

A midrash on American Jewish history / / Henry L. Feingold

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c1982

ISBN

1-4384-0245-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 241 pages)

Disciplina

305.8/924/073

Soggetti

Jews - United States - Politics and government

Judaism - United States

United States Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Beginnings The success story of German Jews in America Americanizing Judaism: the reform movement The ghetto as bridge between past and future The Yiddish theater and the genesis of cultural consumerism Matching power and responsibility: the Jewish labor movement American Jewry really organized? A problematic synthesis: the conservative movement Israelism/Zionism: a new civil religion Orthodox Judaism: a problem becomes a prospect Anti-Semitism and the Anti-Semitic imagination in America: a case study the Twenties American power and Jewish interest in foreign affairs Assessing Jewish power in America: case study, the Holocaust Can American Jewry survive? a second opinion