Tradition Transformed: The Jewish Experience in America - Brossura

Sorin, Gerald

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ISBN 10: 0801854474 ISBN 13: 9780801854477

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1997

Riassunto

Throughout American history, from the colonial era to the present, Jews have found America generally hospitable. Yet even in this relatively receptive country, which essentially replaced Israel as the "promised land," there have been vexing questions for Jews—questions about the costs of freedom and mobility, especially with regard to the erosion of Jewish tradition and distinctiveness.

In this one-volume history of the Jewish experience in America, Gerald Sorin argues that, from colonial times to the present, "acculturation" and not "assimilation" has best described the experience of Jewish Americans. American Jews, Sorin explains, have maintained their unique ethnic characteristics yet have become part of mainstream, middle-class American life. Sorin also shows how the large migration of Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth century made a lasting impact on how other Americans imagine, understand, and relate to Jewish Americans and their cultural contributions today.

Drawing together all aspects of American Jewish history, this concise volume deals with the transformation of a people, their religion, their move into trade and commerce, their political commitments domestically and internationally (especially after the Holocaust), and their contributions to education and culture.

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Recensione:

"Sorin's thesis is extremely timely, and his book deserves to be read both widely and closely by our communal elites consumed with the notion that American Jews are hellbent on assimilation."

(PS)

"Probably the best brief history of American Jews available."

(Mark Stoll Nova Religio)

Descrizione del libro:

Brings together all aspects of American Jewish history―the transformation of a people, their religion, their move into trade and commerce, their political commitments, and their contributions to education and culture.

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• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0801854474
• ISBN 13: 9780801854477
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 312