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The authors of this often provocative study maintain that American Jews' "tribal cohesion"?their term for ethnic and religious solidarity?is being markedly eroded by assimilation and intermarriage. Within just two generations, they predict, the American Jewish community could lose half its present population, even as a significant minority of Jews intensifies its religious affiliation. Lipset, professor of public policy at George Mason University, and Raab, director of Brandeis's Perlmutter Institute for Jewish Advocacy, link American Jews' "tribal cohesion" to a "strong sense of communal foreboding" based on fears of resurgent anti-Semitism, and they argue that Israel's vulnerability to attack reminds American Jews of their own vestigial insecurity, thereby reinforcing group solidarity. American Jews' predominant support for political liberalism, in the authors' analysis, is explained by Jews' recognition that the chief ideology of American society?individualism, populism, egalitarianism, anti-statism, civic equality?has helped to protect Jews from persecution while opening opportunities for economic advancement to them.
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Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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In their latest collaboration...Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab issue a stern warning to American Jews: Return to your roots or dissolve into the melting pot. These seasoned observers of the Jewish community survey Jewish life in America since the earliest days of the Republic and conclude that a 'basic dwindling cycle is evident' precisely because Jews have adapted to to America so successfully...[They] have written an important book, and their pessimism about the future of American Jewry is well-founded. -- Jay P. Lefkowitz "Wall Street Journal"
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There was no Statue of Liberty, but Benjamin Sheftall and his forty-two Jewish companions encountered something more important to their future as their ship approached the American land mass in July 1733. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Jews, United States, American Jewish, New York, World War, American Jewry, African American, Middle East, Civil War, Supreme Court, The Riddle of the Defensive Jew, East European Jews, Los Angeles, German Jews, Native Americans, The Fragile Remnants, Benjamin Sheftall, Six-Day War, The Downside of Exceptionalism, Italian Americans, Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Mordechai Sheftall, Nation of Islam, Steven Cohen New!
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There was no Statue of Liberty, but Benjamin Sheftall and his forty-two Jewish companions encountered something more important to their future as their ship approached the American land mass in July 1733. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Jews, United States, American Jewish, New York, World War, American Jewry, African American, Middle East, Civil War, Supreme Court, The Riddle of the Defensive Jew, East European Jews, Los Angeles, German Jews, Native Americans, The Fragile Remnants, Benjamin Sheftall, Six-Day War, The Downside of Exceptionalism, Italian Americans, Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Mordechai Sheftall, Nation of Islam, Steven Cohen New!
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- The Transformation of the Jews (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism) by Calvin Goldscheider in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Rise of David Levinsky (Penguin Classics) by Abraham Cahan in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Jews in America by David Cohen on page 33, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Understanding American Jewry by Marshall Sklare in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Jews and American politics by Stephen D Isaacs in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Catholics and Jews in Twentieth-Century America by Egal Feldman on 4 pages
- Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America by Elliott Abrams in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America by Elliott Abrams in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century by Alan M. Dershowitz on page 49, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- What Price Prejudice?: Christian Antisemitism in America (Stimulus Books) by Frank E. Eakin Jr. in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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