Speaking of Jews
Subtitle: rabbis, intellectuals, and the creation of an American public identity
By: Lila Corwin Berman.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley, Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780520256804; 9780520256811
Subjects: Jews -- United States -- Identity; Jews -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Jewish leadership -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Judaism and the social sciences; Religion and sociology -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Spiritual missions after the great war: the reform movement and the Jewish Chautauqua Society; title: The Ghetto and beyond: the rising authority of American-Jewish social science in interwar America; title: The sacred and sociological dilemma of Jewish   intermarriage; title: Serving the public good and serving God in 1940s America; title: Constructing an ethnic America: Oscar Handlin, Nathan   Glazer, and Post/World War II social research; title: What is a Jew? Outreach, missionaries, and the Cold War; title: Ethnic Challenge; title: A Jewish Marilyn Monroe and the civil-rights-era crisis in Jewish self-presentation; title: Conclusion: speaking of Jews.