The Americanization of the Jews

Abstract

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors -- I. Introduction: The Ironies of American Jewish History -- 2. The View from the Old World: German-Jewish Perspectives -- 3. The View from the Old World: East European Jewish Perspectives -- 4. Jewish Writers on the New Diaspora -- 5. Movies in America as Paradigms of Accommodation -- 6. From Equality to Liberty: The Changing Political Culture of American Jews -- 7. Will Herberg's Path from Marxism to Judaism: A Case Study in the Transformation of Jewish Belief -- 8. The Anomalous Liberalism of American Jews -- 9. Liberalism, Judaism, and American Jews: A Response -- 10. Zionism and American Politics -- 11. Spiritual Zionists and Jewish Sovereignty -- 12. Zion in the Mind of the American Rabbinate during the 1940s -- 13. The Evolution of the American Synagogue -- 14. Consensus Building and Conflict over Creating the Young People's Synagogue of the Lower East Side -- 15. Jewish in Dishes: Kashrut in the New World -- 16. Feminism and American Reform Judaism -- 17. Ezrat Nashim and the Emergence of a New Jewish Feminism -- 18. Conservative Judaism: The Ethical Challenge of Feminist Change -- 19. The Ninth Siyum Ha-Shas: A Case Study in Orthodox Contra-Acculturation -- 20. Americanism and Judaism in the Thought of Mordecai M. Kaplan -- 21. The American Mission of Abraham Joshua Heschel -- 22. Modern Times and Jewish Assimilation -- 23. Jewish Continuity over Judaic Content: The Moderately Affiliated American Jew -- 24. From an External to an Internal Agenda -- 25. Jewish Survival, Antisemitism, and Negotiation with the Tradition -- 26. American Jewry in the Twenty-First Century: Strategies of Faith -- Index