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Quest for inclusion : Jews and liberalism in modern American
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Quest for inclusion : Jews and liberalism in modern American

Author: Marc Dollinger
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.
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"The politics of acculturation, the process by which Jews championed unpopular social causes to ease their adaptation to American life, established them as the guardians of liberal America. But, according to Dollinger, it also erected barriers to Jewish liberal success. Faced with a conflict between liberal politics and their own acculturation, Jews almost always chose the latter. Few Jewish leaders, for example,  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Marc Dollinger
ISBN: 0691005095 9780691005096
OCLC Number: 43287148
Description: xi, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: "What do we owe to Peter Stuyvesandt?": the new deal in the Jewish community --
Fighting Hitler: cultural pluralism and American Jewish life, 1933-1941 --
"The hope of democracy and peace": American Jews and the campaign for intergroup dialogue, 1933-1941 --
"Unless that war be won, all else is lost": American Jews and homefront --
Planning the postwar peace: the United Nations, Zionism, and American Jewish liberalism --
The struggle for civil liberties: the Cold War, anti-Communism and Jewish liberal reform --
"Hamans and Torquemadas": southern and northern Jewish responses to the civil rights movement, 1945-1965 --
A different kind of freedom ride: American Jews and the struggle for racial equality, 1964-1975.
Responsibility: Marc Dollinger.
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A synthetic treatment of Jewish liberalism and US public policy from the 1930s to the mid-1970s, this work identifies the drive for a more tolerant, pluralistic, and egalitarian nation with Jewish  Read more...

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