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Description:From the Preface“The American Jew is torn between two sets of values – those of integration and acceptance into American society and those of Jewish group survival. These values appear to me to be incompatible. But most American Jews do not view them in this way. The thesis of this book is that the behavior of the American Jew is best understood as his unconscious effort to restructure his environment and reorient his own self-definition and perception of reality so as to reduce the tension between these values.“Some observers of American Jewish behavior see the development of American Judaism as the adaptation of Judaism to the American environment. This oversimplifies the process. Jews respond to the American environment and to their own tradition, a tradition, by the way, that was in the process of being reshaped when mass immigration to the United States took place toward the end of the last century. In the process of their response, American Jews in turn reshaped, with a remarkable degree of success, both their tradition and their environment.“The book is divided into three parts. Part one depicts the evolution of American Judaism from its European roots. … Part two illustrates the theme by focusing on special segments of the community – rabbis, youth, and radical college students – and on Jewish political liberalism, the great effort of American Jews to reshape their political environment to minimize the survival-integration tension. … Part three is a concluding chapter, with some thoughts on the future of Judaism in America.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Ambivalent American Jew: Politics, Religion and Family in American Jewish Life. To get started finding The Ambivalent American Jew: Politics, Religion and Family in American Jewish Life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: From the Preface“The American Jew is torn between two sets of values – those of integration and acceptance into American society and those of Jewish group survival. These values appear to me to be incompatible. But most American Jews do not view them in this way. The thesis of this book is that the behavior of the American Jew is best understood as his unconscious effort to restructure his environment and reorient his own self-definition and perception of reality so as to reduce the tension between these values.“Some observers of American Jewish behavior see the development of American Judaism as the adaptation of Judaism to the American environment. This oversimplifies the process. Jews respond to the American environment and to their own tradition, a tradition, by the way, that was in the process of being reshaped when mass immigration to the United States took place toward the end of the last century. In the process of their response, American Jews in turn reshaped, with a remarkable degree of success, both their tradition and their environment.“The book is divided into three parts. Part one depicts the evolution of American Judaism from its European roots. … Part two illustrates the theme by focusing on special segments of the community – rabbis, youth, and radical college students – and on Jewish political liberalism, the great effort of American Jews to reshape their political environment to minimize the survival-integration tension. … Part three is a concluding chapter, with some thoughts on the future of Judaism in America.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Ambivalent American Jew: Politics, Religion and Family in American Jewish Life. To get started finding The Ambivalent American Jew: Politics, Religion and Family in American Jewish Life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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