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Author Shiff, Ofer, author.

Title The downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the foundation of Israel / Ofer Shiff.

Publication Info. Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2014]
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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource.
data file
Physical Medium polychrome
Series Modern Jewish history
Modern Jewish history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents I. The Early 1950s. 1. The Bridge's and Wall's approach -- 2. The American century in the wake of the Holocaust -- 3. Where Judaism differed: a call for external and internal reform -- II. In Retrospect: Silver's pre-State Zionist career. 4. Silver's early struggle against anti-Semitism and Nazism -- 5. The 1940s: the Holocaust as political leverage -- 6. 1947-1948: an American-Jewish or a pan-Jewish leader? -- III. Israel becomes an ideological and political challenge. 7. In the wake of Israeli statehood -- 8. Identification without subordination -- 9. The attempt to regain status in the wake of Eisenhower's election -- 10. A recurrent existential threat to the Jews -- 11. Unequivocal support for Israel during the Suez crisis -- Epilogue. Reform Jewish prophet or Zionist leader? 12. Silver as a progressive visionary -- 13. Nonetheless, a Zionist leader.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Silver, Abba Hillel, 1893-1963.
Silver, Abba Hillel, 1893-1963.
Rabbis -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography.
Rabbis.
Ohio -- Cleveland.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Zionists -- United States -- Biography.
Zionists.
United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Shiff, Ofer. Downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the foundation of Israel. First edition 9780815610359 (DLC) 2014003015 (OCoLC)869367747
ISBN 9780815652809 (electronic book)
0815652801 (electronic book)
9780815610359
0815610351

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