Why is America different? American Jewry on its 350th anniversary / edited by Steven T. Katz.
| Other author | Katz, Steven T., 1944- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2010] |
| Description | vi, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | In place of an introduction : some thoughts on American Jewish exceptionalism / Steven T. Katz -- Enlightenment, statesmen and the Jews in Europe and the United States, 1776-1820 / Allan Arkush -- American exceptionalism : the case of the Jews, 1750-1850 / Frederic Cople Jaher -- Why and how are Americans different? / Hasia Diner -- Immigrant Jews and the challenge of American athleticism / Jeffrey Gurock -- America's most memorable Zionist leaders / Jonathan D. Sarna -- Encountering Jewish feminism / Pamela S. Nadell -- Judaism and the pluralist dynamic / Peter L. Berger -- From Treifene Medina to Goldene Medina : changing perspectives on the United States among American Haredim / Chaim I. Waxman -- From many, one? Reflections on the notion of American Jews / Arnold Eisen -- Superbowl parties, women rabbis and freedon seders : twenty-first century Jewish American synergy / Rela Mintz Geffen -- American anti-Semitism : the myth and reality of American exceptionalism / Michael N. Dobkowski -- To make "a Jew" : projecting anti-Semitism in post-war America / Donald Weber -- Jews in the United States : how good it has been / Leonard Dinnerstein -- Anti-Semitism today / Abraham Foxman -- The NYT : the newspaper American Jews love to hate / Ari L. Goldman -- Confessions of a Jewish journalist / Gary Rosenblatt -- Portraits of America in Jewish culture / Stephen J. Whitfield -- Yiddishkeit and the American Jewish writer : the breakthrough reconsidered / Eugene Goodheart -- Cinema as a lens on America's Jews / Eric A. Goldman -- What makes America different : Jewish artists and their concerns in the twentieth century / Ori Z. Soltes -- Studies in hysteria, or Jewish comedy from Shtetlakh to Shticklakh / Mark Shechner -- The transformation of traditional Jewish music in Jewish America / Hankus Netsky -- America : memories of doubts and hope / Elie Wiesel. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009931860 |
| ISBN | 0761847685 |
| ISBN | 9780761847687 |
| ISBN | 0761847693 |
| ISBN | 9780761847694 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |