Quest for Inclusion : : Jews and Liberalism in Modern America / / Marc Dollinger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Dollinger, Marc,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

For over sixty years, Jews have ranked as the most liberal white ethnic group in American politics, figuring prominently in social reform campaigns ranging from the New Deal to the civil rights movement. Today many continue to defy stereotypes that link voting patterns to wealth. What explains this...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• "Die Velt, Yene Velt. ..": An Introduction
• Chapter 1. "What Do We Owe to Peter Stuyvesant?" The New Deal in the Jewish Community
• Chapter 2. Fighting Hitler: Cultural Pluralism and American Jewish Life, 1933-1941
• Chapter 3. "The Hope of Democracy and Peace": American Jews and the Campaign for Intergroup Dialogue, 1933-1941
• Chapter 4. "Unless That War Be Won, All Else Is Lost": American Jews and the Home Front
• Chapter 5. Planning the Postwar Peace: The United Nations, Zionism, and American Jewish Liberalism
• Chapter 6. The Struggle for Civil Liberties: The Cold War, Anti-Communism, and Jewish Liberal Reform
• Chapter 7. "Hamans and Torquemadas": Southern and Northern Jewish Responses to the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1965
• Chapter 8. A Different Kind of Freedom Ride: American Jews and the Struggle for Racial Equality, 1964-1975
• 'Just Another Foreigner' An Epilogue
• Notes
• Index