Rabbi Max Heller [[electronic resource] ] : reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929
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| Autore: |
Malone Barbara S
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| Titolo: |
Rabbi Max Heller [[electronic resource] ] : reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929
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| Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 296.8/341/092 |
| 296.8341092 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Heller, Max, 1860-1929 |
| Jews -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History | |
| New Orleans (La.) -- Ethnic relations | |
| Rabbis -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography | |
| Reform Judaism -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History | |
| Temple Sinai (New Orleans, La.) | |
| Rabbis - Biography - New Orleans - Louisiana | |
| Jews - Louisiana - New Orleans - History | |
| Reform Judaism - History - New Orleans - Louisiana | |
| Judaism | |
| Religion | |
| Philosophy & Religion | |
| Soggetto geografico: | New Orleans (La.) Ethnic relations |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Illustrations; Preface; 1. From Jewish Prague to Chicago, 1860-1879; 2. Acquiring the Tools of Americanization, 1879-1884; 3. Initiating a Rabbinical Career: From Cincinnati to New Orleans, 1884-1887; 4. Southernization, Self-Righteousness, Nativism, and Social Reform: New Orleans, 1887-1891; 5. Dimensions of Leadership: Reformer, Traditionalist, Activist, and Dissenter, 1891-1897; 6. ""How Shall We Stand Unswayed in the Storm?"" Confronting the Rising Currents of Racialism; 7. Zionism as ""Our Salvation""; 8. Mandate for ""Moral Courage: American Ideals in the Light of Judaism"" |
| 9. ""The Zenith of My Career""10. The Legacy of a Righteous Life; Appendix; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This biography of a pioneering Zionist and leader of American Reform Judaism adds significantly to our understanding of American and southern Jewish history. Max Heller was a man of both passionate conviction and inner contradiction. He sought to be at the center of current affairs, not as a spokesperson of centrist opinion, but as an agitator or mediator, constantly struggling to find an acceptable path as he confronted the major issues of the day--racism and Jewish emancipation in eastern Europe, nationalism and nativism, immigration and assimilation. Heller's life experien |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Rabbi Max Heller |
| ISBN: | 0-8173-8735-8 |
| 0-585-22193-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910778989303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Judaic Studies Series