Quest for Inclusion Jews and Liberalism in Modern America

Author/Creator:

Dollinger, Marc, 1964- ...

Publication/Creation:

Princeton (N.J.) : Princeton University Press, 2000

Format:

Book

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Full Title:

Quest for Inclusion Jews and Liberalism in Modern America / Marc Dollinger

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Liberalisme--États-Unis--Histoire--20e siecle
Juifs--États-Unis--Politique et gouvernement--20e siecle

Description/Summary

Table of 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.

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-287) and index.

Summary:

"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, condemned the wartime internment of Japanese Americans, and most southern Jews refused to join their northern co-religionists in public civil rights protests. When liberals advocated race-based affirmative action programs and busing to desegregate public schools, most Jews dissented. In chronicling the successes, limits, and failures of Jewish liberalism, Dollinger offers a nuanced yet wide-ranging political history, one intended for liberal activists, conservatives curious about the creation of neo-conservatism, and anyone interested in Jewish communal life."--Jacket.

Language:

English

Language Note:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (296 p. ) ill

General Note:

Notes bibliogr. Index.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937311313002486

ISBN:

1-4008-1422-7

OCLC Number:

1245673051
52137421
1312726342

Other Identifiers:

doi: 10.1515/9781400823857