An edition of The Jewish People in America (1992)

A time for searching

entering the mainstream, 1920-1945

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An edition of The Jewish People in America (1992)

A time for searching

entering the mainstream, 1920-1945

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"In this fourth volume, [the author] notes that the decline of religiousness in the second and third generations of American Jews was balanced by the development of an activist political culture based an elaborate organizational life, an effective fund-raising apparatus, and Zionism, with its notion of Jewish peoplehood. That reshaping of American Jewish individual and communal identity in some measure accounts for the insufficient response to the plight of European Jews during the Holocaust. American Jewry's remarkable achievement in the private sphere overshadowed its weakness in the public one"--Series Editor's forword.

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Johns Hopkins University Press
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English
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338

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Jews, united states, history, Jews, History, Politics and government, Judaism, Ethnic relations, Jews, united states, social conditions, Judaism, history, United states, history, 1945-, United states, ethnic relations

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United States

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20th century
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Cover of: The Jewish People in America
The Jewish People in America: Five Volume Boxed Set (The Jewish People in America)
October 1, 1998, The Johns Hopkins University Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: A Time for Searching
A Time for Searching: Entering the Mainstream, 1920-1945 (The Jewish People in America)
May 1, 1995, The Johns Hopkins University Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: A time for searching
A time for searching: entering the mainstream, 1920-1945
1992, Johns Hopkins University Press
in English
Cover of: The Jewish People in America
The Jewish People in America: Five Volume Boxed Set (The Jewish People in America)
September 1, 1992, The Johns Hopkins University Press
Hardcover in English
Cover of: The Jewish people in America
The Jewish people in America
1992, The Johns Hopkins University Press
in English
Cover of: A time for searching
A time for searching: entering the mainstream, 1920-1945
1992, Johns Hopkins University Press
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-313) and index.

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Baltimore
Series
The Jewish people in America ;, v. 4

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Dewey Decimal Class
973/.04924
Library of Congress
E184.J5 F3765 1992, E184.36.W64

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xvii, 338 p. :
Number of pages
338

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OL1563783M
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isbn_9780801843464
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0801843464
LCCN
91045367
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25009481
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178960
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7122810

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OL2915487W

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THE JEWS of the generation that came of age in America in the 1920s were becoming an integral part of a new urban landscape.
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