Twentieth Century Jews : : Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land /

Twentieth Century Jews : : Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land / / Monty Noam Penkower.

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This extensively-researched collection of essays lucidly explores how members of the ever-beleaguered Jewish people grappled with their identities during the past century in the United States and in Eretz Israel, the new centers of Jewry’s long historical experience. With the pivotal 1903 Kishinev p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
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Penkower, Monty Noam,
Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Judaism and Jewish Life
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • PART I: A TURNING POINT
  • 1. The Kishinev Pogrom of 1903
  • PART II: IN THE LAND OF PROMISE
  • 2. Abraham Isaac Selmanovitz: Guardian of Tradition
  • 3. The “Jewish Seat” of Justice Felix Frankfurter
  • 4. The Genesis of the American Council for Judaism
  • 5. The Jewish Times of Arthur Hays Sulzberger
  • PART III: IN THE PROMISED LAND
  • 6. The Silences of Bialik
  • 7. A Lost Opportunity for Orthodoxy
  • 8. Haim Arlosoroff ’s Murder and Israel’s Political Divide
  • 9. Shlomo Ben-Yosef: From a British Gallows to Israel’s Pantheon to Obscurity
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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