LEADER 04998oam 22006374a 450 001 9910904000603321 005 20250322110035.0 010 $a9781479838059 010 $a1479838055 024 7 $a10.18574/9781479838059 035 $a(CKB)4100000007006593 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5497708 035 $a(DE-B1597)547579 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781479838059 035 $a(OCoLC)1049974638 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse86999 035 $a(ODN)ODN0004022003 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007006593 100 $a20200701d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMaking Judaism Safe for America$eWorld War I and the Origins of Religious Pluralism 210 1$aNew York, NY : $cNew York University Press, $d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 209 pages) 225 0 $aGoldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History ;$v4 311 08$a1-4798-8500-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Border Conflicts -- $t2. Going to War -- $t3. Making Judaism Safe for America -- $t4. American Judaism and American Jews -- $t5. ?Real Jews,? ?Poor Jehudas,? and Resistance to the JWB?s Agenda -- $t6. Good Fences Make Good Americans -- $tConclusion -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tNotes -- $tIndex -- $tAbout the Author 330 $aHonorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical SocietyA compelling story of how Judaism became integrated into mainstream American religion In 1956, the sociologist Will Herberg described the United States as a ?triple-melting pot,? a country in which ?three religious communities - Protestant, Catholic, Jewish ? are America.? This description of an American society in which Judaism and Catholicism stood as equal partners to Protestantism begs explanation, as Protestantism had long been the dominant religious force in the U.S. How did Americans come to embrace Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism as ?the three facets of American religion??Historians have often turned to the experiences of World War II in order to explain this transformation. However, World War I?s impact on changing conceptions of American religion is too often overlooked. This book argues that World War I programs designed to protect the moral welfare of American servicemen brought new ideas about religious pluralism into structures of the military. Jessica Cooperman shines a light on how Jewish organizations were able to convince both military and civilian leaders that Jewish organizations, alongside Christian ones, played a necessary role in the moral and spiritual welfare of America?s fighting forces. This alone was significant, because acceptance within the military was useful in modeling acceptance in the larger society. The leaders of the newly formed Jewish Welfare Board, which became the military?s exclusive Jewish partner in the effort to maintain moral welfare among soldiers, used the opportunities created by war to negotiate a new place for Judaism in American society. Using the previously unexplored archival collections of the JWB, as well as soldiers? letters, memoirs and War Department correspondence, Jessica Cooperman shows that the Board was able to exert strong control over expressions of Judaism within the military. By introducing young soldiers to what it saw as appropriately Americanized forms of Judaism and Jewish identity, the JWB hoped to prepare a generation of American Jewish men to assume positions of Jewish leadership while fitting comfortably into American society.This volume shows how, at this crucial turning point in world history, the JWB managed to use the policies and power of the U.S. government to advance its own agenda: to shape the future of American Judaism and to assert its place as a truly American religion. 410 0$aGoldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history. 606 $aAmericanization 606 $aJewish soldiers$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aJews$xCultural assimilation$zUnited States 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xJews 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aRELIGION / Judaism / History$2bisacsh 607 $aUnited States$xEthnic relations 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmericanization. 615 0$aJewish soldiers$xHistory 615 0$aJews$xCultural assimilation 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xJews. 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xSocial aspects 615 7$aRELIGION / Judaism / History. 676 $a940.3089/924 700 $aCooperman$b Jessica$01775042 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910904000603321 996 $aMaking Judaism Safe for America$94288864 997 $aUNINA