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1 online resource (281 pages). |
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The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
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S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Presenting Jews to America; 1. Spiritual Missions after the Great War: The Reform Movement and the Jewish Chautauqua Society; 2. The Ghetto and Beyond: The Rising Authority of American Jewish Social Science in Interwar America; 3. The Sacred and Sociological Dilemma of Jewish Intermarriage; 4. Serving the Public Good and Serving God in 1940s America; 5. Constructing an Ethnic America: Oscar Handlin, Nathan Glazer, and Post-World War II Social Research. |
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6. What Is a Jew? Missionaries, Outreach, and the Cold War Ethnic Challenge7. A Jewish Marilyn Monroe and the Civil-Rights-Era Crisis in Jewish Self-Presentation; Conclusion: Speaking of Jews; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. |
| Summary |
Lila Corwin Berman asks why, over the course of the twentieth century, American Jews became increasingly fascinated, even obsessed, with explaining themselves to their non-Jewish neighbors. What she discovers is that language itself became a crucial tool for Jewish group survival and integration into American life. Berman investigates a wide range of sources--radio and television broadcasts, bestselling books, sociological studies, debates about Jewish marriage and intermarriage, Jewish missionary work, and more--to reveal how rabbis, intellectuals, and others created a seemingly endless array o. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-251) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Jews -- United States -- Identity.
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Jews. |
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United States. |
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Identity (Philosophical concept) |
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Jews -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Social conditions. |
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20th century |
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Jewish leadership -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Jewish leadership. |
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Judaism and the social sciences.
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Religion and sociology -- United States.
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United States -- Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations. |
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History. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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Judaism and the social sciences. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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Religion and sociology. |
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- General. |
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Jews -- Identity. |
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Jews -- Social conditions. |
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Führungskraft. |
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Intellektueller. |
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Identität. |
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judéité -- Etats-Unis -- 20e s. |
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identité -- intellectuel -- Juif -- Etats-Unis -- 20e s. |
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USA. |
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Juden. |
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Berman, Lila Corwin. Speaking of Jews : Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity. CA : University of California Press, ©2009 9780520256804 |
| ISBN |
9780520943704 (electronic book) |
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0520943708 (electronic book) |
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0520256808 (paper) |
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9780520256804 (cloth) |
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0520256816 (paper) |
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9780520256811 (paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612772603 |
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