Survival through integration [[electronic resource] ] : American Reform Jewish universalism and the Holocaust / / by Ofer Shiff

• Autore: Shiff Ofer
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (184 p.)
• Disciplina: 296.8/341/0973
• Soggetto topico: Reform Judaism - United States - Essence, genius, nature; Jews - Cultural assimilation; Zionism; Antisemitism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Influence
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-174) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction; A. A Universalistic Perspective on Antisemitism and Zionism; B. The Modern Jewish Context; Chapter One Before the Universalistic Coping Pattern Coalesced; Chapter Two Transformation of the Universalistic Perspective into a Jewish Existential Ideology; Chapter Three Jewish Culture and Zionism as seen by "Veteran American" Jews; Chapter Four Intensifying Threats; Chapter Five The Reform and American Jewish Context of the Universalistic Coping Pattern; Epilogue: The Universalistic Reform Pattern from a Historical Perspective; Sources and Bibliography; Index of Names and Concepts
• Sommario/riassunto: This book describes the social and cultural challenges posed by the Holocaust from the subjective angle of those who attempted to maintain unquestioning fealty to the universalistic American Jewish Reform belief in integration even in view of the disheartening realities of the 1930's and the 1940's.
• Titolo autorizzato: Survival through integration
• ISBN: 1-280-86790-6; 9786610867905; 1-4294-2913-5; 90-474-0642-7; 1-4337-0543-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828301103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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