The Star and the Stripes : : A History of the Foreign Policies of American Jews / / Michael N. Barnett.

How do American Jews envision their role in the world? Are they tribal-a people whose obligations extend solely to their own? Or are they prophetic-a light unto nations, working to repair the world? The Star and the Stripes is an original, provocative interpretation of the effects of these worldview...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 12 halftones. 2 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Heine's Law and Jewish Foreign Policies
  • Chapter Two. The Making of a Prophetic People (pre-1914)
  • Chapter Three. Prophets Mugged by Reality (1914-1945)
  • Chapter Four. The Cosmopolitan and the National (1945-1967)
  • Chapter Five. The New Tribalism (1967-1990)
  • Chapter Six. Back to the Future? (1990-present)
  • Chapter Seven. The Foreign Policies of an Uncertain People
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index