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1 online resource (xiv, 402 pages) |
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Judaism and Jewish life |
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Judaism and Jewish life.
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| Contents |
The Kishinev pogrom of 1903 -- Abraham Isaac Selmanowitz: guardian of tradition -- The 'Jewish seat' of Justice Felix Frankfurter -- The genesis of the American Council for Judaism -- The Jewish Times of Arthur Hays Sulzberger -- The silences of Bialik -- A lost opportunity for Orthodoxy -- Haim Arlosoroff's murder and Israel's political divide -- Shlomo Ben-Yosef: from a British gallows to Israel's pantheon to obscurity |
| Summary |
This collection of essays explores how members of the ever-beleaguered Jewish people grappled with their identities during the past century in the United States and in Eretz Israel, the new centers of Jewry's long historical experience. With the pivotal 1903 Kishinev pogrom setting the stage, the author proceeds to examine how the Land of Promise across the Atlantic exerted different influences on Abraham Selmanovitz, Felix Frankfurter, the founders of the American Council for Judaism, and Arthur Hays Sulzberger. Professor Penkower then shows how the prospect of nationalism in the biblical Promised Land engendered other tensions and transformations, ranging from the plight of Hayim Nahman Bialik, to rivalry within the Orthodox Jewish camp, to on-going strife between the political Left and Right over the nature of the emerging Jewish state. --Book Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-383) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Jews -- United States -- Identity
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Jews -- Israel -- Identity.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Ethnic relations
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Jews -- Identity
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Identität
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Juden
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Identität.
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Juden.
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United States -- Ethnic relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043
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Israel
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United States
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USA
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Israel
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Israel.
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Staaten (USA)
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781618110244 |
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1618110241 |
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