Why Are Jews Liberals?

Name: Why Are Jews Liberals?
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ISBN: 9780307456250

ISBN-10: 0307456250

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Authors: Norman Podhoretz

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From the bestselling author ofWorld War IV, a brilliant and provocative examination of a central question in American politics and culture that is sure to generate tremendous controversy. Norman Podhoretz says he has never in his entire life been asked any question on any subject as often as Why are so many Jews liberals? or in its more specifically political form, "Why do most Jews always vote for the Democrats?" Podhoretz proposes to solve this puzzle. He first offers a fascinating account of anti-Semitism in the West to show why, for most of that time, Jews quite sensibly concluded that they had much more to fear from the right than the left. But since the Six Day War of 1967, he argues,…

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List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/5/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction



How the Jews Became Liberals



The "Witness" Doctrine



Ghettos



Poets and Exegetes



Emancipation: Phase One



The Enlightenment Puzzle



Haskalah



Emancipation: Phase Two



The Second Great Puzzle



The Golden Land



Jews from Germany



Anti-Semitism, Patrician Style



Jews Without Money



Emancipation: The Backlash



"Defilers" of the Culture



Enter FDR



In Roosevelt's Wake: Truman



From 1952 to 1968



Why the Jews are Still Liberals



The Golden Age of Jewish Security



Something New Under the Jewish Sun



Nixon and Israel



Carter: "Joining the Jackals"



The 1980 Election



Reagan and Israel



Anti-"Zionism"



The Case of The Nation



The Case of National Review



George H. W. Bush and Israel



The Case of Pat Buchanan



Clinton, the Religious Right, and the Jews



George W. Bush and Israel



2008



As Liberal as Ever?



The Wrong Answers



The "Torah" of Liberalism


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliographical Note


Index