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"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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History, Jews, Liberalism, Politics and government, Jews, united states, politics and governmentPlaces
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Quest for inclusion: Jews and liberalism in modern American
2000, Princeton University Press
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Quest for Inclusion
September 15, 2000, Princeton University Press
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"SOON AFTER Franklin D. Roosevelt's inauguration, Cornell University economist Isaac Rubinow posed a rhetorical question to the National Conference of Jewish Social Service: "What do we owe to Peter Stuyvesant?""
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