A new Jewry? : America since the Second World War / edited by Peter Y. Medding.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Medding, Peter.

Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim. Makhon le-Yahadut zemanenu.

Series:

Studies in contemporary Jewry 0740-8625 ; 8.

Studies in contemporary Jewry, 0740-8625 ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States.

Jews.

United States.

United States--History--1945-.

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 409 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [1992]

Summary:

The eighth volume of the acclaimed annual publication of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, this volume focuses on the history and development of American Jewish life since World War II. Contributions include "A 'Golden Decade' for American Jews, 1945-1955" by Arthur A. Goren, "American Judaism: Changing Patterns in Denominational Self-Definition" by Arnold Eisen, "Value Added: Jews in Postwar American Culture" by Stephen J. Whitfield, "The Postwar Economy of American Jews" by Barry R. Chiswick, "Jewish Migration in Postwar America: The Case of Miami and Los Angeles" by Deborah Dash Moore, and "All in the Family: American Jewish Attachments to Israel" by Chaim Waxman. The volume also contains essays, book reviews, and a list of recent dissertations in the field.

Contents:

Symposium

A New Jewry? America Since the Second World War

A "Golden Decade" for American Jews: 1945-1955 / Arthur A. Goren 3

American Judaism: Changing Patterns in Denominational Self-Definition / Arnold Eisen 21

State and Real Estate: Territoriality and the Modern Jewish Imagination / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi 50

Value Added: Jews in Postwar American Culture / Stephen J. Whitfield 68

The Postwar Economy of American Jews / Barry R. Chiswick 85

Jewish Migration in Postwar America: The Case of Miami and Los Angeles / Deborah Dash Moore 102

Understanding Jewish Communal Involvement: Theoretical Issues and Policy Implications / Gary A. Tobin, Gabriel Berger 118

All in the Family: American Jewish Attachments to Israel / Chaim I. Waxman 134

Essays

Zionist Policy at the Versailles Peace Conference: Setting the Northern Border of Palestine / Yitzhak Gil-Har 153

Ahad Ha'am in Historical Perspective / Yossi Goldstein 168

Jewish Scholarship and Jewish Identity: Their Historical Relationship in Modern Germany / Michael A. Meyer 181

The Impact of Jewish Education and an "Israel Experience" on the Jewish Identity of American Jewish Youth / David Mittelberg 194

The Question of Jewish Identity / Anthony D. Smith 219

Review Essays

"Not of Pure Aryan Stock": The Jewish Impact on the Economic Transformation of Modern Germany / Marcus Arkin 237

Walking the Tightrope: Jordan and the Middle East Conflict / Aharon Klieman 246

Book Reviews

Antisemitism, Holocaust and Genocide

Thomas Albrich, Exodus durch Osterreich: Die judischen Fluchtlinge 1945-1948 / Hagit Lavsky 253

Shmuel Almog (ed.), Antisemitism Through the Ages / Saul Friedman 255

Randolph L. Braham (ed.), The Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry: Essays, Documents, Depositions / Nathaniel Katzburg 258

Christopher Browning, Fateful Months: Essays on the Emergence of the Final Solution / Karl A. Schleunes 260

Shalom Cholawski, Besufat hakhilayon: yahadut bilorusiyah hamizrahit bemilhemet ha'olam hasheniyah (In the Eye of the Hurricane: The Jews in Eastern Belorussia During World War II) / David Silberklang 262

Abraham J. Edelheit and Hershel Edelheit, Bibliography on Holocaust Literature / James E. Young 265

Gerhard Hirschfeld, Nazi Rule and Dutch Collaboration: The Netherlands Under German Occupation, 1940-1945 / Dan Michman 266

Stefan Kobonski, The Jews and the Poles in World War II / David Engel 269

Deborah E. Lipstadt, Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-1945 / Stephen J. Whitfield 272

Abraham J. Peck and Uri D. Herscher (eds.), Queen City Refuge: An Oral History of Cincinnati's Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany / Menahem Kaufman 274

Rivka Perlis, Tenu'ot hano'ar hehaluziyot befolin hakevushah (Pioneering Youth Groups in Occupied Poland) / Yisrael Oppenheim 277

Jacques Presser, Ashes in the Wind: The Destruction of Dutch Jewry / Dan Michman 266

Menachem Z. Rosensaft and Yehuda Bauer (eds.), Antisemitism: Threat to Western Civilization / Zev Garber 283

David Roskies (ed.), The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe / John Felstiner 284

Salomon W. Slowes, Ya'ar Katin

1940 (Katyn Forest

1940) / Dov Levin 285

Nechama Tec, When Light Pierced the Darkness / Deborah E. Lipstadt 286

Gary A. Tobin with Sharon L. Sassler, Jewish Perceptions of Anti-Semitism / Zev Garber 280

Gerhard Vilsmeier, Deutscher Antisemitismus / Peter Pulzer 288

Jewish Communal and Social History

Eugene C. Black, The Social Politics of Anglo-Jewry 1880-1920 / Lloyd P. Gartner 291

David Cesarani (ed.), The Making of Anglo-Jewry / Stuart A. Cohen 292

Neil M. Cowan and Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Our Parents' Lives: The Americanization of Eastern European Jews / David Leviatin 294

Daniel J. Elazar and Harold M. Waller, Maintaining Consensus: The Canadian Jewish Polity in the Postwar World / Michael Brown 296

Heinz Moshe Graupe, Die Enstehung des Modernen Judentums. Geistesgeschichte der Deutschen Juden 1650-1942 / Zwi Bacharach 298

David Leviatin, Followers of the Trail: Jewish Working-Class Radicals in America / Ezra Mendelsohn 300

Dov Levin (ed.), Pinkas hakehilot: Latviyah veestoniyah (A Guide to the Communities of Latvia and Estonia) / Shaul Stampfer 302

Ezra Mendelsohn and Chone Shmeruk (eds.), Studies on Polish Jewry: Paul Glikson Memorial Volume / Gershon C. Bacon 303

Robin Ostow, Jews in Contemporary East Germany: The Children of Moses in the Land of Marx / Marilyn Rueschemeyer 305

Abraham J. Peck (ed.), The German Jewish Legacy in America, 1938-1988: From "Bildung" to the Bill of Rights / Menahem Kaufman 307

Ada Rapoport-Albert and Steven J. Zipperstein (eds.), Jewish History: Essays in Honour of Chimen Abramsky / David Biale 309

Monika Richarz (ed.), Burger auf Widerruf, Lebenszeugnisse deutscher Juden 1789-1945 / Avraham Barkai 311

Moses Rischin (ed.), The Jews of North America / Allon Gal 312

Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Allo Specchio del Falascia: Ebrei ed etnologi durante il colonialismo fascita / Steven Kaplan 314

David Sorkin, The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780-1840 / Michael A. Meyer 316

Michael Stanislawski, Psalms for the Tsar: A Minute-Book of a Psalms-Society in the Russian Army, 1864-1867 / Ezra Mendelsohn 318

Language, Art and Literature

David Aberbach, Bialik / Naomi Sokoloff 320

Herbert G. Goldman, Jolson: The Legend Comes to Life / Stephen J. Whitfield 322

Gabriel Josipovici, The Book of God: A Response to the Bible / Bernard Zelechow 324

Dovid Katz (ed.), Winter Studies in Yiddish, Vol. 2, Papers from the Second Annual Oxford Winter Symposium in Yiddish Language and Literature / Leonard Prager 326

Ira B. Nadel, Joyce and the Jews: Culture and Texts / H. M. Daleski 329

Religion, Thought and Education

J. David Bleich, Contemporary Halakhic Problems, Vol. 3 / Shmuel Shilo 332

A. Roy Eckardt, Three Wars for Human Liberation: Black-Woman-Jew / Julius Lester 334

David Ellenson, Tradition in Transition: Orthodoxy, Halakhah and the Boundaries of Modern Jewish Identity / Shmuel Shilo 332

Simon Greenberg (ed.), The Ordination of Women as Rabbis: Studies and Responsa, A Centennial Publication / Deborah Weissman 336

Norman Lamm, Torah for Torah's Sake in the Works of Rabbi Hayyim of Volozhin and His Contemporaries / Shaul Stampfer 338

Michael L. Morgan (ed.), The Jewish Thought of Emil Fackenheim: A Reader / Eliezer Schweid 339

David Novak, Jewish-Christian Dialogue: A Jewish Justification / A. Roy Eckardt 342

Riv-Ellen Prell, Prayer and Community: The Havurah in American Judaism / Eli Lederhendler 344

Marc Lee Raphael, Abba Hillel Silver: A Profile in American Judaism / Melvin I. Urofsky 346

Jack Wertheimer (ed.), The American Synagogue: A Sanctuary Transformed / Eli Lederhendler 344

Social Sciences and Politics

Brenda Danet, Pulling Strings: Biculturalism in Israeli Bureaucracy / Eva Etzioni-Halevy 349

Daniel J. Elazar (ed.), The New Jewish Politics / Geoffrey Alderman 352

Carole Fink, Marc Bloch: A Life in History / Richard I. Cohen 354

Ruth Kozodoy, David Sidorsky and Kalman Sultanik (eds.), Vision Confronts Reality: Historical Perspectives on the Contemporary Jewish Agenda/Herzl Yearbook Number 9 / David Cesarani 357

David Kraemer (ed.), The Jewish Family: Metaphor and Memory / Shaul Stampfer 359

Eli Lederhendler, The Road to Modern Jewish Politics: Political Tradition and Political Reconstruction in the Jewish Community of Tsarist Russia / Stuart A. Cohen 360

Werner E. Mosse, Jews in the German Economy / Marcus Arkin 237

Werner E. Mosse, The German-Jewish Economic Elite 1820-1935: A Socio-Cultural Profile / Marcus Arkin 237

Yaakov Oved, Two Hundred Years of American Communes / Avraham Yassour 362

Yoav Peled, Class and Ethnicity in the Pale: The Political Economy of Jewish Workers' Nationalism in Late Imperial Russia / Reginald E.

Zelnik 364

Moshe Shokeid, Children of Circumstances: Israeli Emigrants in New York / David Mittelberg 366

Zionism, Israel and the Middle East

Michel Abitbol, Les Deux Terres promises: les juifs de France et le sionisme / David Weinberg 369

Shlomo Avineri, Arlosoroff / Jacques Kornberg 371

Uri Bar-Joseph, The Best of Enemies: Israel and Transjordan in the War of 1948 / Aharon Klieman 246

Uriel Dann (ed.), The Great Powers in the Middle East 1919-1939 / Jacob M. Landau 373

Abraham Diskin, Elections and Voters in Israel / Dan S. Felsenthal 374

Binyamin Eliav, Zikhronot min hayamin (Memories of the Right). Ed. Danny Rubinstein / Yehiam Weitz 376

Yosef Katz, Hayozmah haperatit bevinyan erez yisrael bitkufat ha'aliyah hasheniyah (Zionist Private Enterprise in the Building of Eretz Israel during the Second Aliyah, 1904-1914) / Nachum T. Gross 378

Michael Keren, The Pen and the Sword: israeli Intellectuals and the Making of the Nation-State / Michael J. Cohen 379

Baruch Kimmerling (ed.), The Israeli State and Society: Boundaries and Frontiers / Sasha Weitman 381

Samir A. Mutawi, Jordan in the 1967 War / Aharon Klieman 246

Ernst Pawel, The Labyrinth of Exile: A Life of Theodor Herzl / Michael Berkowitz 383

Gershon Shafir, Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 1882-1914 / Michael Shalev 386

Margalit Shilo, Nisyonot behityashvut: hamisrad haerez yisraeli 1908-1914 (Experiments in Settlement: The Palestine Office 1908-1914) / Dan Giladi 388

Ned Temko, To Win or To Die: A Personal Portrait of Menachem Begin / Yaacov Shavit 390

David Vital, The Future of the Jews / Charles S. Liebman 391

Chaim I. Waxman, American Aliya: Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement / Sergio Dellapergola 394

Eugene Weiner and Anita Weiner, Israel, A Precarious Sanctuary: War, Death and the Jewish People / Amia Lieblich 396

Mary C. Wilson, King Abdullah, Britain and the Making of Jordan / Aharon Klieman 246

Gadi Wolfsfeld, The Politics of Provocation: Participation and Protest in Israel / Sam Lehman-Wilzig 399.

Notes:

At head of title: Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0195074491

OCLC:

27656338