The politics and public culture of American Jews / Arthur A. Goren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goren, Arthur A., 1926-

Series:

Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)

The Modern Jewish experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States--History--20th century.

Jews.

United States.

History.

Jews--United States--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Immigrants--United States--History--20th century.

Immigrants.

United States--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

xi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1999]

Summary:

Arthur A. Goren's strikingly lucid and accessible essays, ranging over nearly a century of Jewish communal life, examine the ways in which American Jews grappled with issues of group survival in an open and accepting society. With the focus on Jewish strategies for maintaining a collective identity while participating fully in American society and public life, Goren explores how immigrants fashioned a Jewish public culture from the traditions and secular ideologies they brought with them from Europe.

Contents:

Part 1 Immigrant Encounters with America, 1900-1940

1. Strategies of Survival and the Uses of Pluralism 13

2. Pageants of Sorrow, Celebration and Protest 30

3. The Rites of Community 48

4. Socialist Politics on the Lower East Side 83

5. The Conservative Politics of the Orthodox Press 100

6. Paths of Leadership 110

Part 2 Communal Politics and Public Culture, 1940-1990

7. Spiritual Zionists and Jewish Sovereignty 145

8. Americanizing Zionist Pioneers 165

9. The "Golden Decade": 1945-1955 186

10. Inventing the "New Pluralism" 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-263) and index.

ISBN:

0253335353

0253213185

OCLC:

40395701