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Forging modern Jewish identities : public faces and private struggles / editors, Michael Berkowitz, Susan L. Tananbaum, Sam W. Bloom.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks DS143 .F59 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Parkes-Wiener series on Jewish studies 1368-5449
- Parkes-Wiener series on Jewish studies, 1368-5449
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Identity.
- Jews.
- Jews--Cultural assimilation.
- Social integration.
- Physical Description:
- x, 293 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell, 2003.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Anthologizing Jews / Michael Berkowitz, Susan L. Tananbaum, Sam W. Bloom 1
- Chapter 1 Revisiting the Old World: American-Jewish Tourists in Inter-war Eastern Europe / Daniel Soyer 16
- Chapter 2 'Our Esteemed Christian Contemporaries': Inter-Faith Dialogue in the American Hebrew, 1885-1908 / Lawrence Charap 39
- Chapter 3 Acceptance and Assimilation: Jews in 1950s American Popular Culture / Michelle Mart 56
- Chapter 4 Going against the Grain: Two Jewish Memoirs of War and Anti-War, 1914-18 / Mark Levene 81
- Chapter 5 'Morally Depraved and Abnormally Criminal': Jews and Crime in London and New York, 1880-1940 / Susan L. Tananbaum 115
- Chapter 6 Marcel Proust and the Comedy of Assimilation / Sam W. Bloom 140
- Chapter 7 Mikhail Zhvanetskii: The Last Russian-Jewish Joker / Alice Nakhimovsky 156
- Chapter 8 Between Two Worlds: The Dual Identity of Russian-Jewish Artists in the Late Nineteenth Century / Musya Glants 180
- Chapter 9 Between Identities: The German-Jewish Youth Movement Blau-Weiss, 1912-26 / Glenn R. Sharfman 198
- Chapter 10 Assimilation and Return in Two Generations of Czech-Jewish Women: Berta Fanta and Else Fanta Bergmann / Miriam Dean-Otting 229
- Chapter 11 Epiphanies: Hungarian-Jewish Experiences and the Shoah / Peter Vardy 249
- Chapter 12 Resisting Fascism: The Politics and Literature of Italian Jews, 1922-45 / Stanislao G. Pugliese 269.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0853034540
- 0853034559
- OCLC:
- 50243984
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