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• catalog abstract "America confronts Judaism with the challenge and the opportunity of addressing Jews in a free Society. The new politics defined by American freedom has reshaped the circumstances of Judaism and called forth revisions, reforms, and redefinitions of various kinds in response to the shifts in the political conditions under which successive generations of Jews in America formed their Judaism. For the long centuries in which Jews lived as a separate and (usually) protected minority Judaism constructed a way of life and expressed a worldview for a social group whose persistence was seldom called into question and could always be explained by appeal to the myth of exile and redemption, sanctification in the here and now, or salvation at the end of time for the holy people, the 'Israel' of successive Judaisms. From their beginnings Christianity and Islam always recognized the legitimacy (if the inferiority, too,) of Judaism, which Jews took to be self-evident. To be sure, Jews found their lives and property threatened. But Judaism could explain that fact and even find reinforcement in it. More important, memories of stress flowed together with the experience of a world in which Jewish found themselves living mainly among other Jews, both by mutual consent and by political constraint. In America, by contrast, the Jews' life together as a distinctive group has to depend mainly on inner assent, produced by decisions of individuals to make something of their origin. As time has passed, 'being Jewish' has less and less resulted from external compulsion, for in the condition of the open and free society constructed by Americans, Jews did not really find themselves much different from others. The distinguishing traits -- whether imposed or voluntary -- of a Jewish language, Jewish clothing, Jewish occupations and places of residence, which had marked their immediate predecessors in Central and Eastern Europe, were absent from the very beginning for Jews in America. Consequently, Jews found themselves in a new circumstance, and the Judaisms that emerged in successive generations responded to these new social experiences. -- Introduction (p. [vii]).".
• catalog contributor b4692675.
• catalog created "1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
• catalog description "America confronts Judaism with the challenge and the opportunity of addressing Jews in a free Society. The new politics defined by American freedom has reshaped the circumstances of Judaism and called forth revisions, reforms, and redefinitions of various kinds in response to the shifts in the political conditions under which successive generations of Jews in America formed their Judaism. For the long centuries in which Jews lived as a separate and (usually) protected minority Judaism constructed a way of life and expressed a worldview for a social group whose persistence was seldom called into question and could always be explained by appeal to the myth of exile and redemption, sanctification in the here and now, or salvation at the end of time for the holy people, the 'Israel' of successive Judaisms. From their beginnings Christianity and Islam always recognized the legitimacy (if the inferiority, too,) of Judaism, which Jews took to be self-evident. ".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
• catalog description "Introduction --- Assimilation, Integration, Segregation -The road to the future/ Jacob B. Agus --- the Jew Who Didn't Get Away: On the Possibility of an American Jewish Culture/ Robert Alter --- What's American about American Jewry? / Joseph L. Blau --- Reflections on Assimilation in America/ Jerome Braum --- The Blessing of Assimilation in Jewish History/ Gerson D. Cohen --- The Jewish People in Metamorphosis/ Moshe Davis --- The institutional Life of American Jewry/ Daniel J. Elazar --- The American Jewish Experience / Isaac Franck --- Nostalgia Is Not Enough / Ruth Gay --- Social Characteristics of American Jews, 1654-1954 / Nathan Glazer --- The Crisis in American Jewry/ Nathan Glazer --- Old Habits Die Hard: Judaism in The Encyclopedia of Religion/ William Scott Green --- The Jewish Consensus / Ben Halpern --- The Evolution Of Jewish Identity / Arthur Hertzberg --- The Death and Rebirth of the Jewish People in America / Eugene S. Mornell --- The Jewish Religious Experience in America: The Problem of Interpretation / Jacob Neusner --- Assimilation and Self-Hatred in Modern Jewish Life / Jacob Neusner --- Freedom's Challenge to Judaism / Jacob Neusner --- From Theology to Ideology: The Transmutation Of Judaism in Modern Times / Jacob Neusner --- The Role of Judaism in America / Jack Riemer --- The New Jewish Identity in America / Stuart E. Rosenberg --- American Jewry, the Ever-dying People / Marshall Sklare.".
• catalog description "To be sure, Jews found their lives and property threatened. But Judaism could explain that fact and even find reinforcement in it. More important, memories of stress flowed together with the experience of a world in which Jewish found themselves living mainly among other Jews, both by mutual consent and by political constraint. In America, by contrast, the Jews' life together as a distinctive group has to depend mainly on inner assent, produced by decisions of individuals to make something of their origin. As time has passed, 'being Jewish' has less and less resulted from external compulsion, for in the condition of the open and free society constructed by Americans, Jews did not really find themselves much different from others. The distinguishing traits -- whether imposed or voluntary -- ".
• catalog description "of a Jewish language, Jewish clothing, Jewish occupations and places of residence, which had marked their immediate predecessors in Central and Eastern Europe, were absent from the very beginning for Jews in America. Consequently, Jews found themselves in a new circumstance, and the Judaisms that emerged in successive generations responded to these new social experiences. -- Introduction (p. [vii]).".
• catalog extent "ix, 305 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Challenge of America.".
• catalog identifier "0815300743".
• catalog isFormatOf "Challenge of America.".
• catalog isPartOf "Judaism in Cold War America, 1945-1990 ; v. 1".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Garland Pub.,".
• catalog relation "Challenge of America.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "296/.0973/0904 20".
• catalog subject "BM205 .C48 1993".
• catalog subject "Jews Cultural assimilation United States.".
• catalog subject "Jews United States Cultural assimilation.".
• catalog subject "Jews United States Identity.".
• catalog subject "Jews United States Politics and government.".
• catalog subject "Judaism United States.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction --- Assimilation, Integration, Segregation -The road to the future/ Jacob B. Agus --- the Jew Who Didn't Get Away: On the Possibility of an American Jewish Culture/ Robert Alter --- What's American about American Jewry? / Joseph L. Blau --- Reflections on Assimilation in America/ Jerome Braum --- The Blessing of Assimilation in Jewish History/ Gerson D. Cohen --- The Jewish People in Metamorphosis/ Moshe Davis --- The institutional Life of American Jewry/ Daniel J. Elazar --- The American Jewish Experience / Isaac Franck --- Nostalgia Is Not Enough / Ruth Gay --- Social Characteristics of American Jews, 1654-1954 / Nathan Glazer --- The Crisis in American Jewry/ Nathan Glazer --- Old Habits Die Hard: Judaism in The Encyclopedia of Religion/ William Scott Green --- The Jewish Consensus / Ben Halpern --- The Evolution Of Jewish Identity / Arthur Hertzberg --- The Death and Rebirth of the Jewish People in America / Eugene S. Mornell --- The Jewish Religious Experience in America: The Problem of Interpretation / Jacob Neusner --- Assimilation and Self-Hatred in Modern Jewish Life / Jacob Neusner --- Freedom's Challenge to Judaism / Jacob Neusner --- From Theology to Ideology: The Transmutation Of Judaism in Modern Times / Jacob Neusner --- The Role of Judaism in America / Jack Riemer --- The New Jewish Identity in America / Stuart E. Rosenberg --- American Jewry, the Ever-dying People / Marshall Sklare.".
• catalog title "The Challenge of America : can Judaism survive in freedom? / edited with introduction by Jacob Neusner.".
• catalog type "text".