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The foundations of American Jewish liberalism / Kenneth D. Wald, University of Florida

Wald, Kenneth D., 1949- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2019

xvi, 255 Seiten : Diagramme

Englisch

Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 220-245

Rezensiert in: The Foundations of American Jewish Liberalism. By Kenneth D. Wald. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019. xvi + 255 pp. $89.99 cloth, $29.99 paper, $24.00 eBook / Weisberg, Herbert F.

Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: Wald, Kenneth D., 1949-, The foundations of American Jewish liberalism] / Troy, Gil

978-1-108-70885-2 (paperback); 978-1-108-49789-3 (hardback)

978-1-108-59738-8 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2018042084

OCoLC: 1097167184     

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/9781108597388

E184.36.P64

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Basisklassifikation: 15.96 (Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes außerhalb des Staates Israel) ; 15.87 (USA) <Geschichte> ; 89.12 (Liberalismus)

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-AAC-DE-7

SSG-Nummer(n): 1

*Juden ; Liberale Theologie      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Jews -- United States -- Politics and government ; Liberalism -- United States -- History ; United States -- Ethnic relations

"American Jews have built a political culture based on the principle of equal citizenship in a secular state. This durable worldview has guided their political behavior from the founding to the present day. In The Foundations of American Jewish Liberalism, Kenneth D. Wald traces the development of this culture by examining the controversies and threats that stimulated political participation by American Jews. Wald shows that the American political environment, permeated by classic liberal values, produced a Jewish community that differs politically from non-Jews who resemble Jews socially and from Jewish communities abroad. Drawing on survey data and extensive archival research, the book examines the ups and downs of Jewish attachment to liberalism and the Democratic Party and the tensions between two distinct strains of liberalism"--

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America is different -- Why American Jewish politics is puzzling -- How is America different? -- How Jews fell in love with the American regime -- Jewish political culture in the early national period -- Consolidating Jewish political culture -- Early twentieth century challenges to Jewish political culture -- Jewish political culture during the "long sixties" and after -- Resurgence of democratic partisanship in the post-New Deal era -- The persistence of the Jewish liberal tradition