| Description |
viii, 504 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The ghetto and beyond / Peter I. Rose -- Jews, gentiles and the American dream -- The American Jewish community in a comparative context / S.M. Lipset -- From shtetl to suburb / Seymour Leventman -- In defense of the Jewish Mother / Zena Smith Blau -- The cult of gratitude / Melvin M. Tumin -- America is different / Stuart E. Rosenberg -- Once a Jew... -- The ethnic church and the desire for survival / Marshall Sklare -- The persistence of tradition : Orthodoxy in America / Solomon Poll -- Toward Jewish religious unity : a symposium / Irving Greenberg ... [et al.] -- Humanistic Judaism and the "God is dead" theology / Sherwin T. Wine -- Is religion necessary? / Kenneth Stern -- Jews and politics -- American political theory and the political notions of American Jews : convergences and contradictions / Dainel J. Elazar -- Jewish radicalism in the United States / Louis Ruchames -- Some reflections on Communism and the Jewish writer / Daniel Aaron -- Jews and civil rights / Milton R. Konvitz -- Jews and other Americans -- Jews and the "Protestant establishment" / E. Digby Baltzell -- The rise and decline of anti-Semitism in America / Dennis H. Wrong -- Strangers in their midst : small-town Jews and their neighbors / Peter I. Rose -- It did happen here : an investigation of political anti-Semitism : Wayne, New Jersey, 1967 / Rodney Stark, Stephen Steinberg -- Negroes and Jews : American minority groups in conflict / B.Z. Sobel, May L. Sobel -- Negroes, Jews, and Muzhiks / Milton Himmelfarb -- Outsiders within -- The Jew as modern writer / Alfred Kazin -- The conversions of the Jews / Allen Guttmann -- Writing about Jews / Philip Roth -- Reflections on Jewish identity / Daniel Bell -- Marginality and the Jewish intellectual / Milton M. Gordon -- Epilogue -- Lester Drentluss, a Jewish boy from Baltimore, attempts to make it through the summer of 1967 / Calvin Trillin |
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Jews -- United States.
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Judaism -- United States.
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