LEADER 04518nam 22007813u 450 001 9910781126503321 005 20230124183520.0 010 $a1-282-60765-0 010 $a9786612607653 010 $a0-7618-4770-7 035 $a(CKB)2550000000019098 035 $a(EBL)616261 035 $a(OCoLC)672011561 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000431148 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12142120 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431148 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10475968 035 $a(PQKB)10879074 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC616261 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000019098 100 $a20141117d2010|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhy Is America Different?$b[electronic resource] $eAmerican Jewry on its 350th Anniversary 210 $aLanham $cUniversity Press of America$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (361 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7618-4768-5 327 $aContents; Preface; In Place of an Introduction: Some Thoughts on American Jewish Exceptionalism; Chapter 01. Enlightenment, Statesmen and the Jews in Europe and the United States, 1776-1820; Chapter 02. American Exceptionalism: The Case of the Jews, 1750-1850; Chapter 03. Why and How Are Americans Different?; Chapter 04. Immigrant Jews and the Challenge of American Athleticism; Chapter 05. America's Most Memorable Zionist Leaders; Chapter 06. Encountering Jewish Feminism; Chapter 07. Judaism and the Pluralist Dynamic 327 $aChapter 08. From Treifene Medina to Goldene Medina: Changing Perspectives on the United States among American HaredimChapter 09. From Many, One? Reflections on the Notion of American Jews; Chapter 10. Superbowl Parties, Women Rabbis and Freedom Seders: Twenty-first Century Jewish American Synergy; Chapter 11. American Anti-Semitism: The Myth and Reality of American Exceptionalism; Chapter 12. To Make "a Jew": Projecting Anti-Semitism in Post-War America; Chapter 13. Jews in the United States: How Good It Has Been; Chapter 14. Anti-Semitism Today 327 $aChapter 15. The NYT: The Newspaper American Jews Love to HateChapter 16. Confessions of a Jewish Journalist; Chapter 17. Portraits of America in Jewish Culture; Chapter 18. Yiddishkeit and the American Jewish Writer: The Break through Reconsidered; Chapter 19. Cinema as a Lens on America's Jews; Chapter 20. What Makes America Different: Jewish Artists and Their Concerns in the Twentieth Century; Chapter 21. Studies in Hysteria, or Jewish Comedy from Shtetlakh to Shticklakh; Chapter 22. The Transformation of Traditional Jewish Music in Jewish America 327 $aChapter 23. America: Memories of Doubts and Hope 330 $aThis book brings together a distinguished group of expert scholars from the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University on the main areas of American Jewish life, from colonial Jewish experience to images of Jews in contemporary films. This volume represents the fruit of this collective reflection and interrogation. 606 $aDemocracy -- Textbooks 606 $aPolitical science -- Juvenile literature -- Textbooks 606 $aPolitical science -- Textbooks 606 $aUnited States -- Politics and government -- Juvenile literature -- Textbooks 606 $aUnited States -- Politics and government -- Textbooks 606 $aJews$xSocial life and customs$zUnited States 606 $aJews in motion pictures 606 $aGender & Ethnic Studies$2HILCC 606 $aSocial Sciences$2HILCC 606 $aEthnic & Race Studies$2HILCC 615 4$aDemocracy -- Textbooks. 615 4$aPolitical science -- Juvenile literature -- Textbooks. 615 4$aPolitical science -- Textbooks. 615 4$aUnited States -- Politics and government -- Juvenile literature -- Textbooks. 615 4$aUnited States -- Politics and government -- Textbooks. 615 0$aJews$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aJews in motion pictures 615 7$aGender & Ethnic Studies 615 7$aSocial Sciences 615 7$aEthnic & Race Studies 676 $a300 676 $a973.04924 700 $aKatz$b Steven T$0153897 702 $aKatz$b Steven T 702 $aKatz$b Steven T 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781126503321 996 $aWhy Is America Different$93730414 997 $aUNINA