From Left to Right : Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History

Author/Creator:

Sinkoff, Nancy, 1959-

Publication/Creation:

Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press, 2020

Format:

Book

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Full Title:

From Left to Right : Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Biographies
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Subjects:

Dawidowicz, Lucy S.
Jewish historians--New York (State)--New York--Biography
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography
Intellectuals--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century
Jews--New York (State)--New York--Intellectual life
Jews--United States--Politics and government--20th century
New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century
United States--Politics and government--20th century

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Word about Personal and Place Names -- Introduction -- I. In New York City in the Interwar Years -- 1. American Immigrant Daughter -- In the Alcoves of Hunter College -- Starting Out in Yiddish in the 1930s -- Lost in Migration: Leibush Lehrer's Ambivalent Secularism -- II. In Poland, Refugee New York City, and Germany -- 2. An American in Vilna -- The Men and Women of the YIVO -- The Aspirantur -- Christian and Jewish Poles -- Days of Decision
3. The New York YIVO in Wartime -- Back in the United States -- Trouble on the YIVO's Home Front -- 4. In the American and British Zones of Occupied Postwar Germany -- The Offenbach Archival Depot -- In the British Zone -- III. Becoming an American -- 5. Insider Politics at the American Jewish Committee -- Seeing Red -- Intergroup Relations in Black, White, and Jewish -- First Cracks in Intergroup Relations -- 6. Whither Secularism? -- How High the Wall? -- The Personal Is Political -- 7. Representing Polish Jewry: The Golden Tradition -- Writing Jewish Communal Life in the Diaspora
Khurbn Forshung for the American Public -- Dubnow's Other Daughter -- 8. Defending Polish Jewry: The War Against the Jews -- The Centrality of Antisemitism to Hitler's Intentionalism -- Dawidowicz and Hilberg, Part 1 -- Dawidowicz and Hilberg-and Arendt, Part 2 -- Dawidowicz and Hilberg, Part 3 -- 9. Universalism and Particularism among the New York Intellectuals -- Arendt's Allure -- Dawidowicz's Authenticity -- IV. Eastern Europe in America -- 10. The Europeanness of the Jewish "Neoconservative Turn" -- Jewish Neoconservative Avant la Lettre -- The Problem of Violence and Black Power
The Language and Literature of Power-and Antisemitism -- Postcolonialism and the External Critique of Jewish "Power" -- That "Infamous" Resolution -- 11. Dina d'malkhuta Dina ("The Law of the Land Is the Law") -- Utopian Anxiety -- The New Jewish Left and the Internal Critique of Jewish "Power" -- Quiescence as Diasporic Political Savvy -- Besieged, Bothered, and Bewildered: The Enthusiasms of the Counterculture -- Intellectual Tomboy -- Making Peace with Capitalism -- 12. Warsaw and Vilna on Her Mind -- The Holocaust on the Mall -- Stung by Stingo
Babi Yar, the War in the East, and Ukrainian-Jewish Relations -- Polish-Jewish Relations and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising -- 13. Rapprochement with Republicanism -- Recriminations on American Soil -- Operation Peace for Galilee and Israel-Diaspora Politics -- A Small Circle of Friends -- Crossing the Aisle -- Reagan, Bitburg, and German Guilt -- Zakhor -- Epilogue: Jewish History, Jewish Politics -- Historical Agency: Who Has It? -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (613 pages)

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Available to current Emory University students, faculty and staff.

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Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937107112202486

ISBN:

0814345115
9780814345115