American Jewish identity politics
By: edited by Deborah Dash Moore.
Contributors: Moore, Deborah Dash, 1946-
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780472116485; 9780472032884
Subjects: Jews -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Jews -- United States -- History -- 21st century; Jews -- United States -- Identity; Jews -- United States -- Cultural assimilation; Judaism -- United States
Table of contents: title: When Jews were GIs: how World War II changed a generation and remade American Jewry / Deborah Dash Moore; title: The Americanization of the Holocaust / Alvin H. Rosenfeld; title: Before "the Holocaust": American Jews confront catastrophe, 1945-62 / Hasia R. Diner; title: Rethinking American Judaism / Arnold M. Eisen; title: American Judaism in historical perspective / Jonathan Sarna; title: From fluidity to rigidity: the religious worlds of conservative and Orthodox Jews in twentieth-century America / Jeffrey S. Gurock; title: New directions in Jewish theology in America / Arthur Green; title: Jewish feminism faces the American women's movement: convergence and divergence / Paula Hyman; title: The paradoxes of American Jewish culture / Stephen J. Whitfield / A demographic revolution in American Jewry / Egon Mayer; title: Relatively speaking: constructing identity in Jewish and mixed-married families / Sylvia Barack Fishman.