The Jewish Role in American Life, Volume 5: An Annual Review

• VerfasserIn: Heinze, Andrew R
• TeilnehmendeR: Kitaj, R. B
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : Purdue University Press, 2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (142 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

The relationship between Jews and the United States is necessarily complex: Jews have been instrumental in shaping American culture and, of course, Jewish culture and religion have likewise been profoundly recast in the United States, especially in the period following World War II. A major focus of this work is to consider the Jewish role in American life as well as the American role in shaping Jewish life. This fifth volume of the Casden Institute's annual review is organized along five broad themes-politics, values, image, education and culture.

Table of Contents

The politicization of Hollywood before World War II: anti-fascism, anti-communism, and anti-semitism / Steven J. Ross -- "Farther away from New York": Jews in the humanities after World War II / Andrew R. Heinze -- How to reach 71 in Jewish art / R.B. Kitaj -- R.B. Kitaj and the state of "Jew-on-the-brain" / David N. Myers -- Summer camp, postwar American Jewish youth and the redemption of Judaism / Riv-Ellen Prell -- Faultlines: the seven socio-ecologies of Jewish Los Angeles / Bruce A. Phillips.