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Hertzberg, Arthur THE JEWS IN AMERICA - Four Centuries of an Uneasy Encounter : A History
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, & Tokyo Simon & Schuster 1989 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
Tan DJ with red lettering on spine. Minor rubbing and wear. Slight soiling to front. Hardcover has some wear. Pages are tight and clean. No noticed markings. Overall great condition! ; With THE JEWS IN AMERICA, Arthur Hertzberg, social historian, one of America's most eminent Jewish thinkers, political leader, and rabbi, has written a challenging revisionist history of the Jewish experience in America. Beginning in 1654 when the first shipload of Jews arrived in what is now New York and local merchants fought to deport them, Jews have been regarded in this country as uniquely alien. Yet the majority of Jews have always tried to become normal Americans. This struggle is at the core of THE JEWS IN AMERICA, a rich, lively, one volume account of America and its Jews and an unflinching look at their experience on these shores. Hertzberg argues that America's Jews, in their struggle to assimilate, have denied themselves a usable past. Describing the Jews who came to America as poor and uncultured and concerned more with material success than religious freedom, Hertzberg portrays their descendants as a community essentially at war with itself and in a quandary about its values and its future. He argues, too that those elements that America's Jews have stressed to distinguish themselves as a group--folk-Jewishness, unquestioning support for Israel, the rags-to-riches saga, and an insistent fear of anti-Semitism--are ephemeral and nearly spent. In the course of these four centuries, they have realized their emancipation; they can no longer define themselves by fear and exclusion. If Judaism is to survive in this country, the Jews of American must find new sources of meaning and value by linking themselves to the intellectiual and spiritual traditions that they have neglected in recent generations. THE JEWS IN AMERICA is a guide to the past and an enlightening vision of the future. It is a brillliant history of the immigrant experience in America. ; 9.5" x 6.25"; 428 pages
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