Studies in Contemporary Jewry Volume VIII: A New Jewry? America Since the Second World War
, by Medding, Peter Y.
- ISBN: 9780195074499 | 0195074491
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 12/17/1992
The eighth volume of the acclaimed annual publication of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, this volume focuses on the history and development of American Jewish life since World War II. Contributions include "A 'Golden Decade' for American Jews, 1945-1955" by Arthur A. Goren, "American Judaism: Changing Patterns in Denominational Self-Definition" by Arnold Eisen, "Value Added: Jews in Postwar American Culture" by Stephen J. Whitfield, "The Postwar Economy of American Jews" by Barry R. Chiswick, "Jewish Migration in Postwar America: The Case of Miami and Los Angeles" by Deborah Dash Moore, and "All in the Family: American Jewish Attachments to Israel" by Chaim Waxman. The volume also contains essays, book reviews, and a list of recent dissertations in the field.
| Symposium | |
| A New Jewry? America Since the Second World War | |
| A "Golden Decade" for American Jews: 1945-1955 | p. 3 |
| American Judaism: Changing Patterns in Denominational Self-Definition | p. 21 |
| State and Real Estate: Territoriality and the Modern Jewish Imagination | p. 50 |
| Value Added: Jews in Postwar American Culture | p. 68 |
| The Postwar Economy of American Jews | p. 85 |
| Jewish Migration in Postwar America: The Case of Miami and Los Angeles | p. 102 |
| Understanding Jewish Communal Involvement: Theoretical Issues and Policy Implications | p. 118 |
| All in the Family: American Jewish Attachments to Israel | p. 134 |
| Essays | |
| Zionist Policy at the Versailles Peace Conference: Setting the Northern Border of Palestine | p. 153 |
| Ahad Ha'am in Historical Perspective | p. 168 |
| Jewish Scholarship and Jewish Identity: Their Historical Relationship in Modern Germany | p. 181 |
| The Impact of Jewish Education and an "Israel Experience" on the Jewish Identity of American Jewish Youth | p. 194 |
| The Question of Jewish Identity | p. 219 |
| Review Essays | |
| "Not of Pure Aryan Stock": The Jewish Impact on the Economic Transformation of Modern Germany | p. 237 |
| Walking the Tightrope: Jordan and the Middle East Conflict | p. 246 |
| Book Reviews | |
| Antisemitism, Holocaust and Genocide | |
| Thomas Albrich, Exodus durch Osterreich: Die judischen Fluchtlinge 1945-1948 | p. 253 |
| Shmuel Almog (ed.), Antisemitism Through the Ages | p. 255 |
| Randolph L. Braham (ed.), The Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry: Essays, Documents, Depositions | p. 258 |
| Christopher Browning, Fateful Months: Essays on the Emergence of the Final Solution | p. 260 |
| Shalom Cholawski, Besufat hakhilayon: yahadut bilorusiyah hamizrahit bemilhemet ha'olam hasheniyah (In the Eye of the Hurricane: The Jews in Eastern Belorussia During World War II) | p. 262 |
| Abraham J. Edelheit and Hershel Edelheit, Bibliography on Holocaust Literature | p. 265 |
| Gerhard Hirschfeld, Nazi Rule and Dutch Collaboration: The Netherlands Under German Occupation, 1940-1945 | p. 266 |
| Stefan Kobonski, The Jews and the Poles in World War II | p. 269 |
| Deborah E. Lipstadt, Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-1945 | p. 272 |
| Abraham J. Peck and Uri D. Herscher (eds.), Queen City Refuge: An Oral History of Cincinnati's Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany | p. 274 |
| Rivka Perlis, Tenu'ot hano'ar hehaluziyot befolin hakevushah (Pioneering Youth Groups in Occupied Poland) | p. 277 |
| Jacques Presser, Ashes in the Wind: The Destruction of Dutch Jewry | p. 266 |
| Menachem Z. Rosensaft and Yehuda Bauer (eds.), Antisemitism: Threat to Western Civilization | p. 283 |
| David Roskies (ed.), The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe | p. 284 |
| Salomon W. Slowes, Ya'ar Katin--1940 (Katyn Forest--1940) | p. 285 |
| Nechama Tec, When Light Pierced the Darkness | p. 286 |
| Gary A. Tobin with Sharon L. Sassler, Jewish Perceptions of Anti-Semitism | p. 280 |
| Gerhard Vilsmeier, Deutscher Antisemitismus | p. 288 |
| Jewish Communal and Social History | |
| Eugene C. Black, The Social Politics of Anglo-Jewry 1880-1920 | p. 291 |
| David Cesarani (ed.), The Making of Anglo-Jewry | p. 292 |
| Neil M. Cowan and Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Our Parents' Lives: The Americanization of Eastern European Jews | p. 294 |
| Daniel J. Elazar and Harold M. Waller, Maintaining Consensus: The Canadian Jewish Polity in the Postwar World | p. 296 |
| Heinz Moshe Graupe, Die Enstehung des Modernen Judentums. Geistesgeschichte der Deutschen Juden 1650-1942 | p. 298 |
| David Leviatin, Followers of the Trail: Jewish Working-Class Radicals in America | p. 300 |
| Dov Levin (ed.), Pinkas hakehilot: Latviyah veestoniyah (A Guide to the Communities of Latvia and Estonia) | p. 302 |
| Ezra Mendelsohn and Chone Shmeruk (eds.), Studies on Polish Jewry: Paul Glikson Memorial Volume | p. 303 |
| Robin Ostow, Jews in Contemporary East Germany: The Children of Moses in the Land of Marx | p. 305 |
| Abraham J. Peck (ed.), The German Jewish Legacy in America, 1938-1988: From "Bildung" to the Bill of Rights | p. 307 |
| Ada Rapoport-Albert and Steven J. Zipperstein (eds.), Jewish History: Essays in Honour of Chimen Abramsky | p. 309 |
| Monika Richarz (ed.), Burger auf Widerruf, Lebenszeugnisse deutscher Juden 1789-1945 | p. 311 |
| Moses Rischin (ed.), The Jews of North America | p. 312 |
| Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Allo Specchio del Falascia: Ebrei ed etnologi durante il colonialismo fascita | p. 314 |
| David Sorkin, The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780-1840 | p. 316 |
| Michael Stanislawski, Psalms for the Tsar: A Minute-Book of a Psalms-Society in the Russian Army, 1864-1867 | p. 318 |
| Language, Art and Literature | |
| David Aberbach, Bialik | p. 320 |
| Herbert G. Goldman, Jolson: The Legend Comes to Life | p. 322 |
| Gabriel Josipovici, The Book of God: A Response to the Bible | p. 324 |
| Dovid Katz (ed.), Winter Studies in Yiddish, Vol. 2, Papers from the Second Annual Oxford Winter Symposium in Yiddish Language and Literature | p. 326 |
| Ira B. Nadel, Joyce and the Jews: Culture and Texts | p. 329 |
| Religion, Thought and Education | |
| J. David Bleich, Contemporary Halakhic Problems, Vol. 3 | p. 332 |
| A. Roy Eckardt, Three Wars for Human Liberation: Black-Woman-Jew | p. 334 |
| David Ellenson, Tradition in Transition: Orthodoxy, Halakhah and the Boundaries of Modern Jewish Identity | p. 332 |
| Simon Greenberg (ed.), The Ordination of Women as Rabbis: Studies and Responsa, A Centennial Publication | p. 336 |
| Norman Lamm, Torah for Torah's Sake in the Works of Rabbi Hayyim of Volozhin and His Contemporaries | p. 338 |
| Michael L. Morgan (ed.), The Jewish Thought of Emil Fackenheim: A Reader | p. 339 |
| David Novak, Jewish-Christian Dialogue: A Jewish Justification | p. 342 |
| Riv-Ellen Prell, Prayer and Community: The Havurah in American Judaism | p. 344 |
| Marc Lee Raphael, Abba Hillel Silver: A Profile in American Judaism | p. 346 |
| Jack Wertheimer (ed.), The American Synagogue: A Sanctuary Transformed | p. 344 |
| Social Sciences and Politics | |
| Brenda Danet, Pulling Strings: Biculturalism in Israeli Bureaucracy | p. 349 |
| Daniel J. Elazar (ed.), The New Jewish Politics | p. 352 |
| Carole Fink, Marc Bloch: A Life in History | p. 354 |
| Ruth Kozodoy, David Sidorsky and Kalman Sultanik (eds.), Vision Confronts Reality: Historical Perspectives on the Contemporary Jewish Agenda/Herzl Yearbook Number 9 | p. 357 |
| David Kraemer (ed.), The Jewish Family: Metaphor and Memory | p. 359 |
| Eli Lederhendler, The Road to Modern Jewish Politics: Political Tradition and Political Reconstruction in the Jewish Community of Tsarist Russia | p. 360 |
| Werner E. Mosse, Jews in the German Economy | p. 237 |
| Werner E. Mosse, The German-Jewish Economic Elite 1820-1935: A Socio-Cultural Profile | p. 237 |
| Yaakov Oved, Two Hundred Years of American Communes | p. 362 |
| Yoav Peled, Class and Ethnicity in the Pale: The Political Economy of Jewish Workers' Nationalism in Late Imperial Russia | p. 364 |
| Moshe Shokeid, Children of Circumstances: Israeli Emigrants in New York | p. 366 |
| Zionism, Israel and the Middle East | |
| Michel Abitbol, Les Deux Terres promises: les juifs de France et le sionisme | p. 369 |
| Shlomo Avineri, Arlosoroff | p. 371 |
| Uri Bar-Joseph, The Best of Enemies: Israel and Transjordan in the War of 1948 | p. 246 |
| Uriel Dann (ed.), The Great Powers in the Middle East 1919-1939 | p. 373 |
| Abraham Diskin, Elections and Voters in Israel | p. 374 |
| Binyamin Eliav, Zikhronot min hayamin (Memories of the Right). Ed. Danny Rubinstein | p. 376 |
| Yosef Katz, Hayozmah haperatit bevinyan erez yisrael bitkufat ha'aliyah hasheniyah (Zionist Private Enterprise in the Building of Eretz Israel during the Second Aliyah, 1904-1914) | p. 378 |
| Michael Keren, The Pen and the Sword: israeli Intellectuals and the Making of the Nation-State | p. 379 |
| Baruch Kimmerling (ed.), The Israeli State and Society: Boundaries and Frontiers | p. 381 |
| Samir A. Mutawi, Jordan in the 1967 War | p. 246 |
| Ernst Pawel, The Labyrinth of Exile: A Life of Theodor Herzl | p. 383 |
| Gershon Shafir, Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 1882-1914 | p. 386 |
| Margalit Shilo, Nisyonot behityashvut: hamisrad haerez yisraeli 1908-1914 (Experiments in Settlement: The Palestine Office 1908-1914) | p. 388 |
| Ned Temko, To Win or To Die: A Personal Portrait of Menachem Begin | p. 390 |
| David Vital, The Future of the Jews | p. 391 |
| Chaim I. Waxman, American Aliya: Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement | p. 394 |
| Eugene Weiner and Anita Weiner, Israel, A Precarious Sanctuary: War, Death and the Jewish People | p. 396 |
| Mary C. Wilson, King Abdullah, Britain and the Making of Jordan | p. 246 |
| Gadi Wolfsfeld, The Politics of Provocation: Participation and Protest in Israel | p. 399 |
| Recently Completed Doctoral Dissertations | p. 400 |
| Contents for Volume IX | p. 408 |
| Note on Editorial Policy | p. 409 |
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