ISBN:
9780520256811
,
9780520256804
,
0520256808
,
0520256816
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
XII, 266 S.
,
Ill.
DDC:
305.69609730904
Schlagwort(e):
Geschichte
;
Juden
;
Führungskraft
;
Intellektueller
;
Identität
;
USA
Kurzfassung:
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 ...
Anmerkung:
Literaturverz. S. 235 - 251
,
Spiritual missions after the great war: the reform movement and the Jewish Chautauqua Society -- The Ghetto and beyond: the rising authority of American-Jewish social science in interwar America -- The sacred and sociological dilemma of Jewish intermarriage -- Serving the public good and serving God in 1940s America -- Constructing an ethnic America: Oscar Handlin, Nathan Glazer, and Post/World War II social research -- What is a Jew? Outreach, missionaries, and the Cold War -- Ethnic Challenge -- A Jewish Marilyn Monroe and the civil-rights-era crisis in Jewish self-presentation -- Conclusion: speaking of Jews
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