The Americanization of the Jews
Explores the paradoxes that abound in the relationship between America and Judaism.
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Explores the paradoxes that abound in the relationship between America and Judaism. Bethamie Horowitz By the end of this very readable book the reader is left with a plausible "model" about American Jews, one which sees America as being at odds with continued Jewishness. -- Jewish Book World
ForewordContributors1Introduction: The Ironies of American Jewish History12The View from the Old World: German-Jewish Perspectives193The View from the Old World: East European Jewish Perspectives414Jewish Writers on the New Diaspora605Movies in America as Paradigms of Accommodation796From Equality to Liberty: The Changing Political Culture of American Jews977Will Herberg's Path from Marxism to Judaism: A Case Study in the Transformation of Jewish Belief1198The Anomalous Liberalism of American Jews1339Liberalism, Judaism, and American Jews: A Response14410Zionism and American Politics15111Spiritual Zionists and Jewish Sovereignty16512Zion in the Mind of the American Rabbinate during the 1940s19313The Evolution of the American Synagogue21514Consensus Building and Conflict over Creating the Young People's Synagogue of the Lower East Side23015Jewish in Dishes: Kashrut in the New World24716Feminism and American Reform Judaism26717Ezrat Nashim and the Emergence of a New Jewish Feminism28418Conservative Judaism: The Ethical Challenge of Feminist Change29619The Ninth Siyum Ha-Shas: A Case Study in Orthodox Contra-Acculturation31120Americanism and Judaism in the Thought of Mordecai M. Kaplan33921The American Mission of Abraham Joshua Heschel35522Modern Times and Jewish Assimilation37723Jewish Continuity over Judaic Content: The Moderately Affiliated American Jew39524From an External to an Internal Agenda41725Jewish Survival, Antisemitism, and Negotiation with the Tradition43626American Jewry in the Twenty-First Century: Strategies of Faith451Index459
\ Bethamie HorowitzBy the end of this very readable book the reader is left with a plausible "model" about American Jews, one which sees America as being at odds with continued Jewishness. -- Jewish Book World\ \
