Torn at the Roots : : The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America / / Michael Staub.
When Jewish neoconservatives burst upon the political scene, many people were surprised. Conventional wisdom held that Jews were uniformly liberal. This book explodes the myth of a monolithic liberal Judaism. Michael Staub tells the story of the many fierce battles that raged in postwar America over...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2004] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religion and American Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 38 illus |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- "Making My Jewishness Too Visible": An Introduction
- 1. "The Racists of America Fly Blindly at Both of Us" Atrocity Analogies and Anticommunism
- 2. "Liberal Judaism Is a Contradiction in Terms" Antiracist Zionists, Prophetic Jews, and Their Critics
- 3. "Artificial Altruism Sows Only Seeds of Error and Chaos" Desegregation and Jewish Survival
- 4. "Protect and Keep" Vietnam, Israel, and the Politics of Theology
- 5. "If There Was Dirty Linen, It Had to Be Washed" Jews for Urban Justice and Radical Judaism
- 6. "We Are Coming Home" New Left Jews and Radical Zionism
- 7. "Are You Against the Jewish Family?" Debating the Sexual Revolution
- 8. "If We Really Care About Israel" Breira and the Limits of Dissent
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index