Research Catalog

Title

The Jewish presence : essays on identity and history / Lucy S. Dawidowicz.

Author

Dawidowicz, Lucy S.

Publication

New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1977.

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Description

xiii, 308 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Jews > Identity
• Jews > United States
• Judaism > United States
• Yiddish language > United States
• United States > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Jewish identity: a matter of fate, a matter of choice -- Arnold Schoenberg: a search for Jewish identity -- On being a woman in Shul -- Explaining American Jews -- Middle-class Judaism -- When reform was young -- From past to past: Jewish east Europe to Jewish east side -- The Jewishness of the American Jewish labor movement -- Yiddish: past, present, and perfected -- Yiddish and its translation -- Max Weinreich: scholarship of Yiddish -- Picturing the past -- Can anti-semitism be measured? -- Smut and anti-semitism -- In Hitler's service: Albert Speer -- An obedient killer: Franz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka -- Bleaching the black lie: the case of Theresienstadt -- Blaming the Jews: the charge of perfidy -- Resistance: a doomed struggle -- Belsen remembered.

ISBN

0030166764

LCCN

^^^76054229^

OCLC

2597317

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library