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Author Shiff, Ofer.

Title Survival through integration : American Reform Jewish universalism and the Holocaust / by Ofer Shiff.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 178 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Jewish identities in a changing world, 1570-7997 ; v. 4
Jewish identities in a changing world ; v. 4. 1570-7997
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-174) and index.
Contents Introduction; A.A Universalistic Perspective on Antisemitism and Zionism; B. The Modern Jewish Context; Chapter One Before the Universalistic Coping Pattern Coalesced; Chapter Two Transformation of the Universalistic Perspective into a Jewish Existential Ideology; Chapter Three Jewish Culture and Zionism as seen by "Veteran American" Jews; Chapter Four Intensifying Threats; Chapter Five The Reform and American Jewish Context of the Universalistic Coping Pattern; Epilogue: The Universalistic Reform Pattern from a Historical Perspective; Sources and Bibliography; Index of Names and Concepts.
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Summary This book describes the social and cultural challenges posed by the Holocaust from the subjective angle of those who attempted to maintain unquestioning fealty to the universalistic American Jewish Reform belief in integration even in view of the disheartening realities of the 1930s and the 1940s.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Morgenstern, Julian, 1881-1976.
Morgenstern, Julian, 1881-1976.
Morgenstern, Julian.
Reform Judaism -- United States -- Essence, genius, nature.
Reform Judaism.
United States.
Jews -- Cultural assimilation.
Jews -- Cultural assimilation.
Zionism.
Zionism.
Antisemitism.
Antisemitism.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Shiff, Ofer. Survival through integration. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005 (DLC) 2004057105
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