Speaking of Jews : rabbis, intellectuals, and the creation of an American public identity / / Lila Corwin Berman

• Autore: Berman Lila Corwin <1976->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.6/9609730904
• Soggetto topico: Jews - United States - Identity; Jews - United States - Social conditions - 20th century; Jewish leadership - United States - History - 20th century; Judaism and the social sciences; Religion and sociology - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Ethnic relations
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-251) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Presenting Jews to America -- 1. Spiritual Missions after the Great War: The Reform Movement and the Jewish Chautauqua Society -- 2. The Ghetto and Beyond: The Rising Authority of American Jewish Social Science in Interwar America -- 3. The Sacred and Sociological Dilemma of Jewish Intermarriage -- 4. Serving the Public Good and Serving God in 1940's America -- 5. Constructing an Ethnic America: Oscar Handlin, Nathan Glazer, and Post-World War II Social Research -- 6. What Is a Jew? Missionaries, Outreach, and the Cold War Ethnic Challenge -- 7. A Jewish Marilyn Monroe and the Civil-Rights-Era Crisis in Jewish Self-Presentation -- Conclusion: Speaking of Jews -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Lila Corwin Berman asks why, over the course of the twentieth century, American Jews became increasingly fascinated, even obsessed, with explaining themselves to their non-Jewish neighbors. What she discovers is that language itself became a crucial tool for Jewish group survival and integration into American life. Berman investigates a wide range of sources-radio and television broadcasts, bestselling books, sociological studies, debates about Jewish marriage and intermarriage, Jewish missionary work, and more-to reveal how rabbis, intellectuals, and others created a seemingly endless array of explanations about why Jews were indispensable to American life. Even as the content of these explanations developed and shifted over time, the very project of self-explanation would become a core element of Jewishness in the twentieth century.
• Titolo autorizzato: Speaking of Jews
• ISBN: 1-282-77260-0; 9786612772603; 0-520-94370-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811083003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.