Autore	Berman Lila Corwin <1976->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (281 p.)
Disciplina	305.6/9609730904
Collana	The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
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
ISBN	1-282-77260-0 9786612772603 0-520-94370-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
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
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910789001303321

Autore	Feld Merle <1947->
Edizione	[Rev. ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (343 p.)
Disciplina	305.48/8924073 B
Collana	SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
Soggetto topico	Diaries - Authorship - Religious aspects - Judaism Feminism - Religious aspects - Judaism Feminists - United States Jewish religious poetry, American Jewish women - Religious life - United States Jewish women - United States Jews - United States - Identity Judaism - United States Spiritual life - Judaism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-7914-7963-3 1-4356-1180-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Beginnings -- Beginning again -- The necessity of poetry in my life -- Report from the trenches -- Passion -- Yizkor -- Israel -- Daily prayer -- We all stood together -- Brigadoon, a place for dreams to grow.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910452096503321

Autore	McGinity Keren R.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2009]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (326 p.)
Disciplina	306.8430882960973
Soggetto topico	Jews - Cultural assimilation Jews - United States - Identity Jewish women Intermarriage - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8147-5961-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Immigrant Jewesses Who Married “Out” -- 2 Intermarriage in an Age of Domesticity -- 3 Intermarriage Was A-Changin’ -- 4 Revitalization from Within -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Appendix -- Notes -- Selected Index -- About the Author
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910478929603321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (347 p.)
Disciplina	305.892/4073
Altri autori (Persone)	Koltun-FrommKen
Collana	Graven Images
Soggetto topico	Judaism - United States Jews - United States - Identity Jews - United States - Intellectual life Jews - Cultural assimilation - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-7391-7447-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Introduction; Part I: About Culture; 1 Jewish Peoplehood and the Nationalist Paradigm in American Jewish Culture; 2 Otherness and Liberal Democratic Solidarity; 3 Philip Rieff's "Jew of Culture" and the Ends of Higher Education in America; 4 Reading a Book like an Object: The Case of The Jewish Catalog; Part II: Art, Literature, Culture; 5 Beyond the Chasm; 6 Celan's Holocaust; 7 Aura and the "Spiritual in Art" in the Age of Digital Reproduction; Part III: Theology and Culture; 8 A Personal Partnership With God; 9 "An Ethic of Suffering"; 10 Intersubjectivity Meets Maternity 11 Authenticity, Vision, CulturePostscript; Index; About the Contributors
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910453825403321

Autore	Kelner Shaul
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : New York University Press, 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (288 p.)
Disciplina	338.4/7915694
Soggetto topico	Tourism - Israel Heritage tourism - Israel Jews - Travel - Israel Jews - United States - Identity
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato	10-day 1999 American Based Birthright Israel Jews Kelner Shaul Since all-expense-paid effort first-hand forge have hundreds known look modern much-debated much-emulated observation on-the-ground over pilgrimage-tour provides seven this thousands ties tourism transnational visited years young
ISBN	0-8147-4918-6 0-8147-4842-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Deploying Tourism -- 2 Striking Roots -- 3 Contesting Claims -- 4 Consuming Place -- 5 Collapsing Distance -- 6 Encountering Community -- 7 Locating Self -- 8 Building Diaspora -- Methodological Appendix -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910458331803321