Torn at the Roots The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America

Name: Torn at the Roots The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America
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ISBN: 9780231123754

ISBN-10: 0231123752

ISBN-13: 9780231123754

Edition: 2004

Authors: Michael E. Staub

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When Jewish neoconservatives burst upon the political scene, many people were surprised. Conventional wisdom held that Jews were uniformly liberal. This book explodes the myth of a monolithic liberal Judaism. Michael Staub tells the story of the many fierce battles that raged in postwar America over what the authentically Jewish position ought to be on issues ranging from desegregation to Zionism, from Vietnam to gender relations, sexuality, and family life. Throughout the three decades after 1945, Michael Staub shows, American Jews debated the ways in which the political commitments of Jewish individuals and groups could or should be shaped by their Jewishness. Staub shows that, contrary…

Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 2/18/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 0.58" wide x 0.87" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Michael Staub is professor of English at Baruch College and the author of Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America.



"Making My Jewishness Too Visible" An Introduction



"The Racists of America Fly Blindly at Both of Us" Atrocity Analogies and Anticommunism



"Liberal Judaism Is a Contradiction in Terms" Antiracist Zionists, Prophetic Jews, and Their Critics



"Artificial Altruism Sows Only Seeds of Error and Chaos" Desegregation and Jewish Survival



"Protect and Keep" Vietnam, Israel, and the Politics of Theology



"If There Was Dirty Linen, It Had to Be Washed" Jews for Urban Justice and Radical Judaism



"We Are Coming Home" New Left Jews and Radical Zionism



"Are You Against the Jewish Family?" Debating the Sexual Revolution



"If We Really Care About Israel" Breira and the Limits of Dissent


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index