Jews and the American Soul : : Human Nature in the Twentieth Century /

Jews and the American Soul : : Human Nature in the Twentieth Century / / Andrew R. Heinze.

What do Joyce Brothers and Sigmund Freud, Rabbi Harold Kushner and philosopher Martin Buber have in common? They belong to a group of pivotal and highly influential Jewish thinkers who altered the face of modern America in ways few people recognize. So argues Andrew Heinze, who reveals in rich and u...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Heinze, Andrew R.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (480 p.) :; 20 halftones. 1 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I. One Nation under Stress, Divisible: Jewish Immigrants and the National Psyche
  • CHAPTER 1 Jews and the Psychodynamics of American Life
  • PART II. The Moral Universe of the Jews
  • CHAPTER 2 Benjamin Franklin in Hebrew: The Musar Sage of Philadelphia
  • CHAPTER 3 Jews and the Crisis of the Psyche
  • CHAPTER 4 Freud and Adler: The Rise of Jewish Psychoanalytic Moralism
  • PART III. Jewish Morality and the Psychological Shift of American Culture, 1890–1945
  • CHAPTER 5 Popular Psychology: The Great American Synthesis of Religion and Science
  • CHAPTER 6 Jewish Psychological Evangelism: A Collective Biography of the First Generation
  • CHAPTER 7 The Moronic Immigrant and the Neurotic Jew: Jews and American Perceptions of Intelligence, Personality, and Race
  • CHAPTER 8 The Specter of the Mob: Jews and the Battle for the American Unconscious
  • PART IV. Peace of Mind: Judaism and the Therapeutic Polemics of Postwar America
  • CHAPTER 9 Rabbi Liebman and the Psychic Pain of the World War II Generation
  • CHAPTER 10 Peace of Mind: A New Jewish Gospel of Love
  • CHAPTER 11 Clare Boothe Luce and the Catholic-Jewish Clash over Freud in America
  • PART V. Jews and the American Search for Meaning, 1950–2000
  • CHAPTER 12 Jews and the Creation of American Humanism
  • CHAPTER 13 Joyce Brothers: The Jewish Woman as Psychologist of Suburban America
  • CHAPTER 14 Holocaust, Hasidism, Suffering, Redemption
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

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