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Torn at the roots : the crisis of Jewish liberalism in postwar America / Michael E. Staub

Author
Staub, Michael E.
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2002]
Copyright Date
©2002
Physical Description
1 online resource (386 pages) : illustrations
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Language Note
English.
Contents
"Making My Jewishness Too Visible" An Introduction -- "The Racists of America Fly Blindly at Both of Us" Atrocity Analogies and Anticommunism -- "Liberal Judaism Is a Contradiction in Terms" Antiracist Zionists, Prophetic Jews, and Their Critics -- "Artificial Altruism Sows Only Seeds of Error and Chaos" Desegregation and Jewish Survival -- "Protect and Keep" Vietnam, Israel, and the Politics of Theology -- "If There Was Dirty Linen, It Had to Be Washed" Jews for Urban Justice and Radical Judaism -- "We Are Coming Home" New Left Jews and Radical Zionism -- "Are You Against the Jewish Family?" Debating the Sexual Revolution -- "If We Really Care About Israel" Breira and the Limits of Dissent.
Summary
"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."--Jacket
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ISBN
0231506430 (electronic bk.)
9780231506434 (electronic bk.)
9780231123754
0231123752
0231123744
9780231123747
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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