Research Catalog

Title

Quest for inclusion : Jews and liberalism in modern American / Marc Dollinger.

Author

Dollinger, Marc, 1964-

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.

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Details

Description

xi, 296 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The politics of acculturation, the process by which Jews championed unpopular social causes to ease their adaptation to American life, established them as the guardians of liberal America. But, according to Dollinger, it also erected barriers to Jewish liberal success. Faced with a conflict between liberal politics and their own acculturation, Jews almost always chose the latter. Few Jewish leaders, for example, condemned the wartime internment of Japanese Americans, and most southern Jews refused to join their northern co-religionists in public civil rights protests. When liberals advocated race-based affirmative action programs and busing to desegregate public schools, most Jews dissented. In chronicling the successes, limits, and failures of Jewish liberalism, Dollinger offers a nuanced yet wide-ranging political history, one intended for liberal activists, conservatives curious about the creation of neo-conservatism, and anyone interested in Jewish communal life."--Jacket.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Jews > United States > Politics and government > 20th century
• Liberalism > United States > History > 20th century
• Jews > Politics and government
• Liberalism
• Politik
• Liberalismus
• Regierung
• Joden
• Acculturatie
• Liberalisme
• United States
• Juden
• USA

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-287) and index.

Contents

"What do we owe to Peter Stuyvesandt?": the new deal in the Jewish community -- Fighting Hitler: cultural pluralism and American Jewish life, 1933-1941 -- "The hope of democracy and peace": American Jews and the campaign for intergroup dialogue, 1933-1941 -- "Unless that war be won, all else is lost": American Jews and homefront -- Planning the postwar peace: the United Nations, Zionism, and American Jewish liberalism -- The struggle for civil liberties: the Cold War, anti-Communism and Jewish liberal reform -- "Hamans and Torquemadas": southern and northern Jewish responses to the civil rights movement, 1945-1965 -- A different kind of freedom ride: American Jews and the struggle for racial equality, 1964-1975.

ISBN

• 0691005095
• 9780691005096

LCCN

99089426

OCLC

• ocm43287148
• 43287148
• SCSB-1127431

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library