Torn at the Roots
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: August 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780231123747
Subjects: Jewish studies; Social history; History; Religion - Judaism; History: World; Anthropology - Cultural; Jewish - General; Judaism - General; Social Science / Jewish Studies; 20th century; Jews; Liberalism; Politics and government; Social problems; United States
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Description: "When Jewish Neoconservatives burst upon the political scene, many people were surprised. Conventional wisdom held that Jews were uniformly liberal. This book explodes the myth of a monolithic liberal Judaism. Michael Staub tells the story of the many fierce battles that raged in postwar America over what an authentically Jewish position ought to be on issues ranging from desegregation to Zionism, from Vietnam to gender relations, sexuality, and family life.

Throughout the three decades after 1945, Michael Staub shows, American Jews debated the ways in which the political commitments of Jewish individuals and groups could or should be shaped by their Jewishness. Staub shows that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the liberal position was never the obvious winner in the contest."--BOOK JACKET.