An equal share of freedom : American Jews, Zionism, and World War I / edited by Mark A. Raider, Zohar Segev, and Gary Phillip Zola ; foreword by Jehuda Reinharz ; afterword by Susannah Heschel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raider, Mark A., editor.

Segev, Zohar, editor.

Zola, Gary Phillip, editor.

Reinharz, Jehuda, writer of foreword.

Heschel, Susannah, writer of afterword.

Series:

Jacob Rader Marcus series on the American Jewish experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Jews--United States.

World War, 1914-1918.

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

Jews.

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

Zionism.

Balfour Declaration.

Zionists--Political activity--United States.

Zionists.

Jews--United States--Politics and government--20th century.

United States--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1901-1953.

World War, 1914-1918--United States.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

476 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

American Jews, Zionism, and World War I

American Jews, Zionism, and World War One

Place of Publication:

Cincinnati : University of Cincinnati Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Essays illustrating the American Jewish experience during World War I. An Equal Share of Freedom sheds new light on several important and interrelated dimensions of American, Jewish, and world history in the World War I era. Paying close attention to the Balfour Declaration as a hub around which to explore the period's unfolding and turbulent social, cultural, and political developments, this collection of essays covers a diverse range of topics including Jewish doughboys, Zionist women authors, and political elites such as Golda Meir and Woodrow Wilson. The volume demonstrates the complex nature of Jewish ethnonational consciousness in the American setting and the impact of Zionism on US wartime and postwar activity. The essays in this volume overturn timeworn assumptions that have long shaped the fields of American history and modern Jewish history. Taken as a whole, they demonstrate the war's profound impact on American Jewish life and the transformation of American Jewry's relationship with wider American society. These essays also illustrate the centrality of Zionism to the American Jewish experience and the extent to which American Jewry's national consciousness and the future direction of the Zionist project were forged in the crucible of the Great War. An Equal Share of Freedom is the first volume in the Jacob Rader Marcus Series on the American Jewish Experience. In this series, Raider, Segev, and Zola highlight the myriad possibilities for expanding and deepening scholarly understanding of American Jews and the shared history of American society and the Jewish people in the twentieth century, starting with a look at World War I"--Amazon website.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798885500036

OCLC:

1371816520