Lexington studies in modern Jewish history, historiography, and memory
Contents
Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Power Fields, Struggles for Recognition, and the Birth of Jewish American Contingent Identity; 1 Preliminary Considerations; 2 Eastern European Traditions in Early Twentieth Century Jewish American Narratives; 3 American Traditions between Temptations and Traps; Part II: Jewishness, Responsibility, and Vulnerability in Early Twentieth Century America: Writing an Ethics out of Contingency; 4 Stances of Ethical Agency out of Contingency; 5 Human Socialities between Struggles for Recognition and Ethical Responsibility; Conclusion
Summary
This book offers a comparative study of the Jewish response to identity structures in Eastern Europe and the United States from 1890 to 1930 in narratives by immigrant writers from the Pale of Settlement and Romania
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
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