LEADER 04743nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910461242403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-49252-X 010 $a9786613587756 010 $a0-8135-5219-2 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813552194 035 $a(CKB)2670000000160469 035 $a(OCoLC)781938163 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10540541 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000622913 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11374063 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000622913 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10643229 035 $a(PQKB)10896124 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC870065 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse921 035 $a(DE-B1597)530063 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813552194 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL870065 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10540541 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL358775 035 $a(OCoLC)1162553312 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000160469 100 $a20110314d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGentile New York$b[electronic resource] $ethe images of non-Jews among Jewish immigrants /$fGil Ribak 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (308 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8135-5164-1 311 $a0-8135-3808-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 203-281) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tA Note on Transliteration --$tIntroduction --$t1. ?Never Before Have Gentiles Hated Jews So Much?: The Images of Non-Jews in Eastern European Jewish Society in the Late Nineteenth Century --$t2. ?Lovers of Man?: The Images of Americans among Eastern European Jews in the Last Third of the Nineteenth Century --$t3. ?In Goodness They Even Exceed the English?: The Idealization of ?Yankees? in the 1880's and 1890's --$t4. ?The American Is Not Very Musical and Not So Sociable?: The Beginnings of an Attitudinal Change in the Early 1900's --$t5. ?You Could Almost Forget That He Is Not a Jew?: The Jewish Labor Movement and Secularized Chosenness, 1909?1914 --$t6. ?The ?Green? Italian Pays the Same Good Taxes as the 14-Karat Yankee?: The War in Europe and the Beginnings of Reorientation toward Certain Minority Groups, 1914?1917 --$t7. ?What the American Can Do in His Anger?: World War I and the Red Scare, 1917?1920 --$tEpilogue: Self-Image and Its Limitations --$tA Note on Methodology and Sources --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aThe very question of ?what do Jews think about the goyim? has fascinated Jews and Gentiles, anti-Semites and philo-Semites alike. Much has been written about immigrant Jews in nineteenth- and twentieth-century New York City, but Gil Ribak?s critical look at the origins of Jewish liberalism in America provides a more complicated and nuanced picture of the Americanization process. Gentile New York examines these newcomers? evolving feelings toward non-Jews through four critical decades in the American Jewish experience. Ribak considers how they perceived Gentiles in general as well as such different groups as ?Yankees? (a common term for WASPs in many Yiddish sources), Germans, Irish, Italians, Poles, and African Americans. As they discovered the complexity of America?s racial relations, the immigrants found themselves at odds with ?white? American values or behavior and were drawn instead into cooperative relationships with other minorities. Sparked with many previously unknown anecdotes, "ations, and events, Ribak?s research relies on an impressive number of memoirs, autobiographies, novels, newspapers, and journals culled from both sides of the Atlantic. 517 3 $aImages of non-Jews among Jewish immigrants 606 $aJews$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xAttitudes 606 $aGentiles$xPublic opinion 606 $aPublic opinion$zNew York (State)$zNew York 606 $aImmigrants$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xAttitudes 606 $aJews$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aJews$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xEthnic relations 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aJews$xAttitudes. 615 0$aGentiles$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aPublic opinion 615 0$aImmigrants$xAttitudes. 615 0$aJews$xHistory 615 0$aJews$xHistory 676 $a305.8009747 700 $aRibak$b Gil$01041530 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461242403321 996 $aGentile New York$92465123 997 $aUNINA