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This title in other editionsSpeaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identityby Lila Corwin Berman
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Lila Corwin Berman asks why, over the course of the twentieth century, American Jews became increasingly fascinated, even obsessed, with explaining themselves to their non-Jewish neighbors. What she discovers is that language itself became a crucial tool for Jewish group survival and integration into American life. Berman investigates a wide range of sources--radio and television broadcasts, bestselling books, sociological studies, debates about Jewish marriage and intermarriage, Jewish missionary work, and more--to reveal how rabbis, intellectuals, and others created a seemingly endless array of explanations about why Jews were indispensable to American life. Even as the content of these explanations developed and shifted over time, the very project of self-explanation would become a core element of Jewishness in the twentieth century.
Synopsis:This is an outstanding contribution to the literature on social science and the intellectual construction of Jewish identity in the U.S. The author has done a superb job of linking the Jewish missionary movement within the religious sector with the Jewish sociological trends and the dilemma of Jewish assimilation.aJanet Jacobs, author of Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews
Table of ContentsSpiritual missions after the Great War : the reform movement and the Jewish Chautauqua Society — The ghetto and beyond : the rising
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