Title: Terms of survival : the Jewish world since 1945 /
Authors: Wistrich, Robert S., 1945-2015.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Jews Politics and government; Jews Social conditions.; Jews Identity.; Judaism
Abstract: The emergence of the Jewish State of Israel has fundamentally changed the conditions of Jewish existence. Yet the immense changes that have taken place since 1945 have rarely been comprehensively analysed. Terms of Survival sets out to fill this need, and to take stock of the Jewish world as it has emerged from the catastrophe of the Holocaust. From a wide-ranging perspective, the book considers the demographic, occupational and behavioural transformations in Jewry. Contributors examine the new Jewish politics in Israel, the USA, Europe and the ex-USSR, changing religious patterns among Jews and new perceptions of them. Also considered are the ways in which some of the problems confronting contemporary Jews have found expression in literature. The book reflects the way in which post-war Jewry has become both more self-assertive in the defence of its interests, and more uncertain in the light of continuing anti-semitism.
Contents: Introduction: The Post-War Jewish World / Robert S. Wistrich -- 1. Changing Cores and Peripheries: Fifty Years in Socio-Demographic Perspective / Sergio DellaPergola -- 2. The Demographic Impact of the Holocaust / U.O. Schmelz -- 3. Emigration and Aliyah: A Reassessment of Israeli and Jewish Policies / Dalia Ofer -- 4. The New Jewish Politics in America / Peter Y. Medding -- 5. The Skills and Economic Status of American Jewry / Barry R. Chiswick -- 6. Modernization, Ethnicity and the Post-War Jewish World / Calvin Goldscheider -- 7. The Political Profile of American Jewry / Seymour M. Lipset -- 8. American Jews and United States Foreign Policy (1945-90) / Steven L. Spiegel -- 9. Soviet Jewry -- A Community in Turmoil / Mordechai Altschuler -- 10. Ethnicity and the Jewish Vote: The French Case / Dominique Schnapper and Sylvie Strudel -- 11. Jewish Political Attitudes and Voting Patterns in England 1945-87 / Geoffrey Alderman.