A Time for Searching
Entering the Mainstream, 1920-1945
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1992]
Format: Book
Description: xvii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
"In this fourth volume, [the author] notes that the decline of religiousness in the second and third generations of American Jews was balanced by the development of an activist political culture based an elaborate organizational life, an effective fund-raising apparatus, and Zionism, with its notion of Jewish peoplehood. That reshaping of American Jewish individual and communal identity in some measure accounts for the insufficient response to the plight of European Jews during the Holocaust. American Jewry's remarkable achievement in the private sphere overshadowed its weakness in the public one"--Series Editor's forword.
Series: Jewish people in America ; v. 4.
Contents:
ch. 1. Signals of unwelcome -- ch. 2. Acculturation and its discontents -- ch. 3. The contentment of culture -- ch. 4. Crisis of faith -- ch. 5. From class struggle to struggle for class -- ch. 6. Zionism and the restructuring of Jewish political life -- ch. 7. American Jewish political behavior during the Interwar Period -- ch. 8. The American Jewish response to the Holocaust.
Subjects:
Jews -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Jews -- United States -- Politics and government.
Judaism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Ethnic relations.
Jews -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Jews -- United States -- Politics and government.
Judaism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Ethnic relations.
ISBN:
0801843464
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SSHC HISTORY North Am. US Fei | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Selden K. Smith Holocaust Collection | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-313) and index.