The downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the foundation of Israel
I. The Early 1950s. 1. The Bridge's and Wall's approach2. The American century in the wake of the Holocaust -- 3. Where Judaism differed: a call for external and internal reform -- II. In Retrospect: Silver's pre-State Zionist career. 4. Silver's early struggle against anti-Semit...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Syracuse, NY
Syracuse University Press
2014
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
| Schriftenreihe: | Modern Jewish history
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | I. The Early 1950s. 1. The Bridge's and Wall's approach2. The American century in the wake of the Holocaust -- 3. Where Judaism differed: a call for external and internal reform -- II. In Retrospect: Silver's pre-State Zionist career. 4. Silver's early struggle against anti-Semitism and Nazism -- 5. The 1940s: the Holocaust as political leverage -- 6. 1947-1948: an American-Jewish or a pan-Jewish leader? -- III. Israel becomes an ideological and political challenge. 7. In the wake of Israeli statehood -- 8. Identification without subordination -- 9. The attempt to regain status in the wake of Eisenhower's election -- 10. A recurrent existential threat to the Jews -- 11. Unequivocal support for Israel during the Suez crisis -- Epilogue. Reform Jewish prophet or Zionist leader? 12. Silver as a progressive visionary -- 13. Nonetheless, a Zionist leader. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-284) and index |
| Beschreibung: | 289 pages 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780815610359 978-0-8156-1035-9 9780815652809 |