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1 online resource (281 pages) |
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The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies |
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S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of 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 1940s America; 5. Constructing an Ethnic America: Oscar Handlin, Nathan Glazer, and Post-World War II Social Research |
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6. What Is a Jew? Missionaries, Outreach, and the Cold War Ethnic Challenge7. A Jewish Marilyn Monroe and the Civil-Rights-Era Crisis in Jewish Self-Presentation; Conclusion: Speaking of Jews; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
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 o |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-251) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Jews -- United States -- Identity
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Jews -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Jewish leadership -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Judaism and the social sciences.
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Religion and sociology -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
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Ethnic relations
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Jewish leadership
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Jews -- Identity
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Jews -- Social conditions
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Judaism and the social sciences
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Religion and sociology
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Führungskraft
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Intellektueller
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Identität
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judéité -- Etats-Unis -- 20e s.
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identité -- intellectuel -- Juif -- Etats-Unis -- 20e s.
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United States -- Ethnic relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043
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United States
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USA
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Juden.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008025974 |
| ISBN |
9780520943704 |
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0520943708 |
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0520256808 |
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9780520256804 |
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0520256816 |
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9780520256811 |
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1282772600 |
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9781282772601 |
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9786612772603 |
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6612772603 |
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