The Jewish 1960s: An American Sourcebook

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Author: Michael E. Staub

ISBN-10: 1584654171

ISBN-13: 9781584654179

Category: General & Miscellaneous Judaism

No American decade during the twentieth century has been so strongly defined by Jewish-led and Jewish-sponsored political activism or so deeply informed and influenced by Jewish culture as the 1960s. Nor has any decade in the last century had more lasting consequences on the contemporary state of America Jewry. The 1960s marked the rise of Jewish pride, witnessed a revitalization of religious communal commitments, and saw the revival of Jewish particularism as a crucial counterpoint to a...

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A collection of primary sources about Jewish contributions to and involvement in the tumultuous social transformations of the 1960s.

1Going south12At home (almost) in America353Living with the Holocaust514Black-Jewish relations875The struggle for Soviet Jewry1216The Jewish stake in Vietnam1377After the Six-Day War1658How Jewish it it?1899On Jewish radicals and radical Jews22910The making of a Jewish counterculture27311The sexual revolution30112Jewish women and feminism31713Selections from The first Jewish catalog349