The Jewish People in America

"In this fourth volume, [the author] notes that the decline of religiousness in the second and third generations of American Jews was balanced by the development of an activist political culture based an elaborate organizational life, an effective fund-raising apparatus, and Zionism, with its notion of Jewish peoplehood. That reshaping of American Jewish individual and communal identity in some measure accounts for the insufficient response to the plight of European Jews during the Holocaust. American Jewry's remarkable achievement in the private sphere overshadowed its weakness in the public one"--Series Editor's forword.

First sentence: THE JEWS of the generation that came of age in America in the 1920s were becoming an integral part of a new urban landscape.

Year

1992

Language

English

Publisher

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Editions

4

Pages

376

ISBN

9780801851230

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