American Jewish identity politics / editor, Deborah Dash Moore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moore, Deborah Dash, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Jews.

History.

United States.

Jews--United States--History--21st century.

Jews--United States--Identity.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Jews--Cultural assimilation--United States.

Jews--Cultural assimilation.

Judaism--United States.

Judaism.

Physical Description:

336 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2008]

Contents:

When Jews were GIs: how World War II changed a generation and remade American Jewry / Deborah Dash Moore

The Americanization of the Holocaust / Alvin H. Rosenfeld

Before "the Holocaust": American Jews confront catastrophe, 1945-62 / Hasia R. Diner

Rethinking American Judaism / Arnold M. Eisen

American Judaism in historical perspective / Jonathan D. Sarna

From fluidity to rigidity: the religious worlds of conservative and Orthodox Jews in twentieth-century America / Jeffrey S. Gurock

New directions in Jewish theology in America / Arthur Green

Jewish feminism faces the American women's movement: convergence and divergence / Paula E. Hyman

The paradoxes of American Jewish culture / Stephen J. Whitfield

A demographic revolution in American Jewry / Egon Mayer

Relatively speaking: constructing identity in Jewish and mixed-married families / Sylvia Barack Fishman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780472116485

0472116487

9780472032884

0472032887

OCLC:

187417693