TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berman,Lila Corwin
TI  - Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity
T2  - The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
SN  - 9780520943704
AV  - E184 .S643 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - CA
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Jews
KW  - United States
KW  - Identity
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Jewish leadership
KW  - History
KW  - Judaism and the social sciences
KW  - Religion and sociology
KW  - Social Science
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Presenting Jews to America; 1. Spiritual Missions after the Great War: The Reform Movement and the Jewish Chautauqua Society; 2. The Ghetto and Beyond: The Rising Authority of American Jewish Social Science in Interwar America; 3. The Sacred and Sociological Dilemma of Jewish Intermarriage; 4. Serving the Public Good and Serving God in 1940s America; 5. Constructing an Ethnic America: Oscar Handlin, Nathan Glazer, and Post-World War II Social Research; 6. What Is a Jew? Missionaries, Outreach, and the Cold War Ethnic Challenge7. A Jewish Marilyn Monroe and the Civil-Rights-Era Crisis in Jewish Self-Presentation; Conclusion: Speaking of Jews; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; 2; b
N2  - Lila Corwin Berman asks why, over the course of the twentieth century, American Jews became increasingly fascinated, even obsessed, with explaining themselves to their non-Jewish neighbors. What she discovers is that language itself became a crucial tool for Jewish group survival and integration into American life. Berman investigates a wide range of sources--radio and television broadcasts, bestselling books, sociological studies, debates about Jewish marriage and intermarriage, Jewish missionary work, and more--to reveal how rabbis, intellectuals, and others created a seemingly endless array o
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