Title The Americanization of the Jews / edited by Robert M. Seltzer and Norman J. Cohen.

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New York : New York University Press, [1995]

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Series	Reappraisals in Jewish social and intellectual history
	Reappraisals in Jewish social and intellectual history.
Contents	Foreword / Norman J. Cohen -- 1. Introduction: The Ironies of American Jewish History / Robert M. Seltzer -- 2. The View from the Old World: German-Jewish Perspectives / Steven M. Lowenstein -- 3. The View from the Old World: East European Jewish Perspectives / Jacob Kabakoff -- 4. Jewish Writers on the New Diaspora / Ruth R. Wisse -- 5. Movies in America as Paradigms of Accommodation / Stephen J. Whitfield -- 6. From Equality to Liberty: The Changing Political Culture of American Jews / Henry L. Feingold -- 7. Will Herberg's Path from Marxism to Judaism: A Case Study in the Transformation of Jewish Belief / David G. Dalin -- 8. The Anomalous Liberalism of American Jews / Nathan Glazer -- 9. Liberalism, Judaism, and American Jews: A Response / Jerold S. Auerbach -- 10. Zionism and American Politics / Melvin I. Urofsky -- 11. Spiritual Zionists and Jewish Sovereignty / Arthur A. Goren -- 12. Zion in the Mind of the American Rabbinate during the 1940s / David Ellenson -- 13. The Evolution of the American Synagogue / Jonathan D. Sarna -- 14. Consensus Building and Conflict over Creating the Young People's Synagogue of the Lower East Side / Jeffrey S. Gurock -- 15. Jewish in Dishes: Kashrut in the New World / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- 16. Feminism and American Reform Judaism / Ellen M. Umansky -- 17. Ezrat Nashim and the Emergence of a New Jewish Feminism / Paula E. Hyman -- 18. Conservative Judaism: The Ethical Challenge of Feminist Change / Judith Hauptman -- 19. The Ninth Siyum Ha-Shas: A Case Study in Orthodox Contra-Acculturation / Samuel C. Heilman -- 20. Americanism and Judaism in the Thought of Mordecai M. Kaplan / Mel Scult -- 21. The American Mission of Abraham Joshua Heschel / Edward K. Kaplan -- 22. Modern Times and Jewish Assimilation / Paul Ritterband -- 23. Jewish Continuity over Judaic Content: The Moderately Affiliated American Jew / Steven M. Cohen -- 24. From an External to an Internal Agenda / Egon Mayer -- 25. Jewish Survival, Antisemitism, and Negotiation with the Tradition / Charles S. Liebman -- 26. American Jewry in the Twenty-First Century: Strategies of Faith / Arnold Eisen.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Jews -- United States -- Identity -- Congresses.
	Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- United States -- Congresses.
	Jews -- United States -- Politics and government -- Congresses.
	Judaism -- United States -- Congresses.
	United States -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses.
	Ethnic relations. (OCoLC)fst00916005
	Jews -- Cultural assimilation. (OCoLC)fst00983194
	Jews -- Identity. (OCoLC)fst00983278
	Jews -- Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst00983330
	Judaism. (OCoLC)fst00984280
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Identität.
	Integration.
	Juden.
	New York <NY, 1991>.
	United States.
Genre/Form	Conference papers and proceedings. (OCoLC)fst01423772
Added Author	Seltzer, Robert M., editor.
	Cohen, Norman J., editor.
Other Form:	Print version: Americanization of the Jews 0814780008 (DLC) 94036160 (OCoLC)31132856
ISBN	9780814788806 (electronic bk.)
	0814788807 (electronic bk.)
	0814780008
	9780814780008
	0814780016
	9780814780015

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