American Jewish identity politics / editor, Deborah Dash Moore.

Other author Moore, Deborah Dash, 1946-
Format Book
Publication InfoAnn Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, ©2008.
Description336 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Jews--United States. --History. --20th century.
Jews--United States. --History. --21st century.
Jews--United States. --Identity.
Jews--United States. --Cultural assimilation.
Judaism--United States.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007052488
ISBN9780472116485 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0472116487 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780472032884 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0472032887 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks E 184.355 .A45 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold