04082nam 2200757Ia 450 991081108300332120200520144314.01-282-77260-097866127726030-520-94370-810.1525/9780520943704(CKB)3390000000007006(EBL)837276(OCoLC)773565025(SSID)ssj0000442669(PQKBManifestationID)11302430(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000442669(PQKBWorkID)10446725(PQKB)10162689(MiAaPQ)EBC837276(OCoLC)694144873(MdBmJHUP)muse30368(DE-B1597)518783(DE-B1597)9780520943704(Au-PeEL)EBL837276(CaPaEBR)ebr10675761(CaONFJC)MIL277260(EXLCZ)99339000000000700620080627d2009 ub 0engur||#||||||||txtccrSpeaking of Jews rabbis, intellectuals, and the creation of an American public identity /Lila Corwin Berman1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20091 online resource (281 p.)The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-520-25680-8 0-520-25681-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-251) and index.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 --IndexLila 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 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.S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.JewsUnited StatesIdentityJewsUnited StatesSocial conditions20th centuryJewish leadershipUnited StatesHistory20th centuryJudaism and the social sciencesReligion and sociologyUnited StatesUnited StatesEthnic relationsJewsIdentity.JewsSocial conditionsJewish leadershipHistoryJudaism and the social sciences.Religion and sociology305.6/9609730904Berman Lila Corwin1976-1670913MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811083003321Speaking of Jews4033096UNINA