Why Is America Different?
American Jewry on its 350th Anniversary
Published on 11. October 2010
Book
Hardback
420 pages
978-0-7618-4768-7 (ISBN)
Description
Does the American Jewish experience represent a singular communal circumstance, or does it repeat, with obvious and unavoidable variation, the older European pattern of Jewish existence? In 2004, on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the establishment of the American Jewish community, this question seemed well worth revisiting. To explore it more fully, the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University brought together a distinguished group of expert scholars on the main areas of American Jewish life, stretching from the colonial Jewish experience to the image of Jews in contemporary films. The present volume represents the fruit of this collective reflection and interrogation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
738 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7618-4768-7 (9780761847687)
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Person
Steven T. Katz is director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University, Boston, Ma., and holds the Alvin J. and Shirley Slater Chair in Jewish and Holocaust Studies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1972.
Content
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 In Place of an Introduction: Some Thoughts on American Jewish Exceptionalism
Chapter 3 1. Enlightenment, Statesmen, and the Jews in Europe and the United States, 1776-1820
Chapter 4 2. American Exceptionalism: The Case of the Jews, 1750-1850
Chapter 5 3. Why and How Are Americans Different?
Chapter 6 4. Immigrant Jews and the Challenge of American Athleticism
Chapter 7 5. American's Most Memorable Zionist Leaders
Chapter 8 6. Encountering Jewish Feminism
Chapter 9 7. Judaism and the Pluralist Dynamic
Chapter 10 8. From Treifene Medina to Goldene Medina: Changing Perspectives on the United States Among American Haredim
Chapter 11 9. From Many, One? Reflections on the Notion of American Jews
Chapter 12 10. Superbowl Parties, Women Rabbis, and Freedom Seders: Twenty-first Century Jewish American Synergy
Chapter 13 11. American Anti-Semitism: The Myth and Reality of American Exceptionalism
Chapter 14 12. To "Make a Jew": Projecting Anti-Semitism in Post-War America
Chapter 15 13. Jews in the United States: How Good it has Been
Chapter 16 14. Anti-Semitism Today
Chapter 17 15. The NYT: The Newspaper American Jews Love to Hate
Chapter 18 16. Confessions of a Jewish Journalist
Chapter 19 17. Portraits of America in Jewish Culture
Chapter 20 18. Yiddishkeit and the American Jewish Writer: The Breakthrough Reconsidered
Chapter 21 19. Cinema as a Lens on America's Jews
Chapter 22 20. What Makes America Different: Jewish Artists and their Concerns in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 23 21. Studies in Hysteria, or Jewish Comedy from Shtetlach to Shticklach
Chapter 24 22. The Transformation of Traditional Jewish Music in Jewish America
Chapter 25 23. America: Memories of Doubts and Hope
Chapter 2 In Place of an Introduction: Some Thoughts on American Jewish Exceptionalism
Chapter 3 1. Enlightenment, Statesmen, and the Jews in Europe and the United States, 1776-1820
Chapter 4 2. American Exceptionalism: The Case of the Jews, 1750-1850
Chapter 5 3. Why and How Are Americans Different?
Chapter 6 4. Immigrant Jews and the Challenge of American Athleticism
Chapter 7 5. American's Most Memorable Zionist Leaders
Chapter 8 6. Encountering Jewish Feminism
Chapter 9 7. Judaism and the Pluralist Dynamic
Chapter 10 8. From Treifene Medina to Goldene Medina: Changing Perspectives on the United States Among American Haredim
Chapter 11 9. From Many, One? Reflections on the Notion of American Jews
Chapter 12 10. Superbowl Parties, Women Rabbis, and Freedom Seders: Twenty-first Century Jewish American Synergy
Chapter 13 11. American Anti-Semitism: The Myth and Reality of American Exceptionalism
Chapter 14 12. To "Make a Jew": Projecting Anti-Semitism in Post-War America
Chapter 15 13. Jews in the United States: How Good it has Been
Chapter 16 14. Anti-Semitism Today
Chapter 17 15. The NYT: The Newspaper American Jews Love to Hate
Chapter 18 16. Confessions of a Jewish Journalist
Chapter 19 17. Portraits of America in Jewish Culture
Chapter 20 18. Yiddishkeit and the American Jewish Writer: The Breakthrough Reconsidered
Chapter 21 19. Cinema as a Lens on America's Jews
Chapter 22 20. What Makes America Different: Jewish Artists and their Concerns in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 23 21. Studies in Hysteria, or Jewish Comedy from Shtetlach to Shticklach
Chapter 24 22. The Transformation of Traditional Jewish Music in Jewish America
Chapter 25 23. America: Memories of Doubts and Hope