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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824441303321

Autore

Heilman Samuel C

Titolo

Portrait of American Jews : the last half of the 20th century / / Samuel C. Heilman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c1995

ISBN

0-295-80065-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

The Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies

Disciplina

305.892/4073

Soggetti

Jews - Cultural assimilation - United States

Judaism - United States

Judaism - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Second printing (pbk.), 1998.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-186) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents ; Preface ; Prologue ; 1. Starting Over: Acculturation and Suburbia, the Jews of the 1950's ; 2. The Emergence of Two Types of Jews: Choices Made in the 1960's and 1970's ; 3. Quality versus Quantity: The Challenge of the 1980's and 1990's ; Notes ; Index