Ambivalent embrace
Subtitle: Jewish upward mobility in postwar America
By: Rachel Kranson
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781469635422; 9781469635439
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Judaism; Jews; Attitudes; Psychological aspects; Social conditions; Identity; Wealth
Description: "This new cultural history of Jewish life and identity in the United States after World War II focuses on the process of upward mobility. ... challenges the common notion that most American Jews unambivalently celebrated their generally strong growth in economic status and social acceptance during the booming postwar era. In fact, a significant number of Jewish religious, artistic, and intellectual leaders worried about the ascent of large numbers of Jews into the American middle class"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: Materially poor, spiritually rich: poverty in the postwar Jewish imagination; title: What now supports Jewish liberalism?: upward mobility and Jewish political identity; title: Pathfinders' predicament: negotiating middle-class Judaism; title: What kind of job is that for a nice Jewish boy?: masculinity in an upwardly mobile community; title: Hadassah makes you important: debating middle-class Jewish femininity; title: From generation to generation: the Jewish counterculture's critique of affluence.