A time for searching
Subtitle: entering the mainstream, 1920-1945
By: Henry L. Feingold.
Series: The Jewish people in America ;; v. 4
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Jews -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Jews -- United States -- Politics and government.; Judaism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; United States -- Ethnic relations.
Description: "In this fourth volume, [the author] notes that the decline of religiousness in the second and third generations of American Jews was balanced by the development of an activist political culture based an elaborate organizational life, an effective fund-raising apparatus, and Zionism, with its notion of Jewish peoplehood. That reshaping of American Jewish individual and communal identity in some measure accounts for the insufficient response to the plight of European Jews during the Holocaust. American Jewry's remarkable achievement in the private sphere overshadowed its weakness in the public one"--Series Editor's forword.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-313) and index.