The Jewish origins of cultural pluralism
Subtitle: the Menorah Association and American diversity
By: Daniel Greene
Series: The modern Jewish experience; Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780253356147; 9780253223340
Subjects: Menorah Association (New York, N.Y.); Harvard Menorah Society (Cambridge, Mass.); Intercollegiate Menorah Association (New York, N.Y.); Cultural pluralism; Jewish college students; Jews; Intellectual life; Cultural assimilation; Societies; Identity; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "Kultur Klux Klan or cultural pluralism"; title: The Harvard Menorah Society and the Menorah idea; title: The intercollegiate Menorah Association and the "Jewish invasion" of American colleges; title: Cultural pluralism and its critics; title: Jewish studies in an American setting; title: A pluralist history and culture; title: Pluralism in fiction; title: Epilogue: "The promise of the Menorah idea".