LEADER 04119nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910464885603321 005 20210428193851.0 010 $a1-282-77260-0 010 $a9786612772603 010 $a0-520-94370-8 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520943704 035 $a(CKB)3390000000007006 035 $a(EBL)837276 035 $a(OCoLC)773565025 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000442669 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11302430 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000442669 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10446725 035 $a(PQKB)10162689 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC837276 035 $a(OCoLC)694144873 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30368 035 $a(DE-B1597)518783 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520943704 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL837276 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10675761 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL277260 035 $a(EXLCZ)993390000000007006 100 $a20080627d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSpeaking of Jews$b[electronic resource] $erabbis, intellectuals, and the creation of an American public identity /$fLila Corwin Berman 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 225 1 $aThe S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-25680-8 311 $a0-520-25681-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235-251) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Presenting Jews to America --$t1. Spiritual Missions after the Great War: The Reform Movement and the Jewish Chautauqua Society --$t2. The Ghetto and Beyond: The Rising Authority of American Jewish Social Science in Interwar America --$t3. The Sacred and Sociological Dilemma of Jewish Intermarriage --$t4. Serving the Public Good and Serving God in 1940's America --$t5. Constructing an Ethnic America: Oscar Handlin, Nathan Glazer, and Post-World War II Social Research --$t6. What Is a Jew? Missionaries, Outreach, and the Cold War Ethnic Challenge --$t7. A Jewish Marilyn Monroe and the Civil-Rights-Era Crisis in Jewish Self-Presentation --$tConclusion: Speaking of Jews --$tNotes --$tSelected Bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aLila Corwin Berman asks why, over the course of the twentieth century, American Jews became increasingly fascinated, even obsessed, with explaining themselves to their non-Jewish neighbors. What she discovers is that language itself became a crucial tool for Jewish group survival and integration into American life. Berman investigates a wide range of sources-radio and television broadcasts, bestselling books, sociological studies, debates about Jewish marriage and intermarriage, Jewish missionary work, and more-to reveal how rabbis, intellectuals, and others created a seemingly endless array of explanations about why Jews were indispensable to American life. Even as the content of these explanations developed and shifted over time, the very project of self-explanation would become a core element of Jewishness in the twentieth century. 410 0$aS. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies. 606 $aJews$zUnited States$xIdentity 606 $aJews$zUnited States$xSocial conditions$y20th century 606 $aJewish leadership$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aJudaism and the social sciences 606 $aReligion and sociology$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xEthnic relations 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aJews$xIdentity. 615 0$aJews$xSocial conditions 615 0$aJewish leadership$xHistory 615 0$aJudaism and the social sciences. 615 0$aReligion and sociology 676 $a305.6/9609730904 700 $aBerman$b Lila Corwin$f1976-$01041024 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464885603321 996 $aSpeaking of Jews$92464287 997 $aUNINA