THE JEWS of the generation that came of age in America in the 1920s were becoming an integral part of a new urban landscape.
An edition of The Jewish People in America
(1992)
A Time for Searching
Entering the Mainstream, 1920-1945 (The Jewish People in America)
by Henry L. Feingold
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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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The Jewish People in America: Five Volume Boxed Set (The Jewish People in America)
October 1, 1998, The Johns Hopkins University Press
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A Time for Searching: Entering the Mainstream, 1920-1945 (The Jewish People in America)
May 1, 1995, The Johns Hopkins University Press
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A time for searching: entering the mainstream, 1920-1945
1992, Johns Hopkins University Press
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The Jewish people in America
1992, The Johns Hopkins University Press
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The Jewish People in America: Five Volume Boxed Set (The Jewish People in America)
September 1, 1992, The Johns Hopkins University Press
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A time for searching: entering the mainstream, 1920-1945
1992, Johns Hopkins University Press
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