LEADER 03426nam 2200517 450 001 9910796638603321 005 20231119163652.0 010 $a3-11-049714-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110499438 035 $a(CKB)4100000001044516 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5156966 035 $a(DE-B1597)470208 035 $a(OCoLC)1013727916 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110499438 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5156966 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11473955 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001044516 100 $a20171222h20182018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aAmerican Jewry and the re-invention of the East European Jewish past /$fMarkus Krah 210 1$aBerlin, [Germany] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cDe Gruyter Oldenbourg,$d2018. 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (304 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aNew Perspectives on Modern Jewish History ;$vVolume 9 311 $a3-11-049992-4 311 $a3-11-049943-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Search for New Modes of Jewishness in Postwar America --$t2. Launching a Discourse: YIVO?s Bridge From the Old World to the New --$t3. New (York) Jewish Intellectuals: The Past as Culture --$t4. Religious Culture as an Antidote to Liberal Judaism and Secular Jewishness --$t5. Spiritual Needs, the Past, and the Denominational Landscape --$t6. From East European Radicalism to Postwar American Progressivism --$t7. Presenting a Rich Jewish Culture: The Eternal Light and Life Is with People --$t8. Making Jewishness Meaningful: In School and in Hasidism --$t9. Tevye in Kasrilevke, the Fiddler in America: East European Jewishness in Literature --$t10. Conclusion: Re-Inventing Jewishness Out of Memory --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe postwar decades were not the ?golden era? in which American Jews easily partook in the religious revival, liberal consensus, and suburban middle-class comfort. Rather it was a period marked by restlessness and insecurity born of the shock about the Holocaust and of the unprecedented opportunities in American society. American Jews responded to loss and opportunity by obsessively engaging with the East European past. The proliferation of religious texts on traditional spirituality, translations of Yiddish literature, historical essays , photographs and documents of shtetl culture, theatrical and musical events, culminating in the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof, illustrate the grip of this past on post-1945 American Jews. This study shows how American Jews reimagined their East European past to make it usable for their American present. By rewriting their East European history, they created a repertoire of images, stories, and ideas that have shaped American Jewry to this day. 410 0$aNew perspectives on modern Jewish history ;$vVolume 9. 606 $aJews$xHistory 615 0$aJews$xHistory. 676 $a909.04924 686 $aNY 4900$2rvk 700 $aKrah$b Markus$01483562 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796638603321 996 $aAmerican Jewry and the re-invention of the East European Jewish past$93701731 997 $aUNINA